Just returned form a village pub singaround.

Its a great pub. The beer is good and not overpriced. The performers are also well accomplished and vert friendly.

The problem is the landlord has a very strident voice and talks over almost everything, unless it his daughter who is performing. (She is a very good pianist on the pub piano.)

Because the landlord talks loudly over the singers, then so do his regulars who seem not to be interested in song performance at all.

So.... how do we criticise this situation?

I would just not go any more, but I love the pub and the other singers.

I'm very sure in days of yore (Hey, that could be a rhyming lyric!) that when somebody sang in a pub everyone else shut up and listened.

Times change I suppose.

Tone