Getting in PA doesn't necessarily help, especially for singers. When you sing a song you aren't singing all the time, there are pauses if it's to make any sense - and that's when the fellas who are shouting to each other, because of the PA, really come into their own, and everyone hears what they are bellowing. (That can be quite fun actually...)

I hope tuggy isn't retiring and taking his (or her) bat home. This is a good thread, and pretty even tempered. I think most people here know about exaggeration and figurative speech and so forth, and don't take thing literally when they aren't meant literally.