At the end of the day it shouldn't be beyond the realms of our individual tolerance to have the good manners to keep quiet when a singer is performing.

I was at the Endeavour session mentioned at the start of this thread and I found the ambient noise level to be dreadful. What was much worse was the realisation that most (but not all) of the noise was coming from festival goers who really should know better.

I left the pub at 10pm having had quite enough.

John