Thanks for the input guys, thats kind of helped.
For those of you who dont know my band, were a Ceilidh/Concert band, we do ceilidh's most saturdays at private functions during the winter, and then when the festival season starts we turn into a concert band and do the festivals.

Thanks for your advice Pete (from Oxon), we know what your getting at, and have actually started doing tunes like you said, its just that Alex, (the melodeon chappy) has only been with us for 6 months, and has never been on stage before joining us, so his been chucked in the deep end, most of our tunes are in non melodeon keys and so he's still working out the bass side.
Anyway, we saw And Cutting and Chris Wood the over day, who are a fantastic example of drones over melody and things, so we all took notes and will be working our own wayof doing something like that.

As for now, I think im going to enforce singing practice amongst the guys and get our vocals in gear.As its clear that singing is far more popular.I think we wont do any dirge stuff just the unplifting funny happy songs.

all the best and thanks for the tips.

Dave