Will Fly wrote"I wanted a session near my home, where I could walk to play, have a few beers, and toddle off home long after closing time - so I started my own!"
Couldn't agree more. I organise a session from time to time like that in my local. And if people turn up and sing off a song-sheet, I don't tear it up and throw it on the fire.It's an anything goes do, and I am fine with whatever turns up. But if I go to see an act in a pub, or a concert hall, or a floor-spot singer in a folk club, I expect them to have made the minimum effort to learn their material.And like Vic Smith, I am fed up with the apologists. Music stands were unknown on the scene a while ago, so what has changed to make them so necessary now?