Tyke, I wasn't offended in the least.

Neither did I have any issue with a bunch of friends playing together; neither did I have any issue with the quality of music that was being played; neither did I have a problem that it was late in the evening, that it was noisy etc etc; neither do I doubt that I was in the company of greatness as you have established your street cred in your post way past anything that could be asked for.

And I'm sure that Jimmy - you know him I don't - was happy as a lark about the whole thing (weirdly the comment he made to me after I spoke to him after he sang, which I'm sure he will remember, suggested he was less appreciative than you think - but time changes things and our memories may be different)

It still doesn't much affect my view that changing the time, key etc when someone is singing an unaccompanied song is a little thoughtless whoever you are and whatever the circumstances.

There was a chap sitting two or three along from 'Jimmy' who played a guitar who managed to sing a play a song without the same level of interruption.

It was late in the evening and you were having fun and it was a song you knew so why not?

I'll say hello next time I see you in Whitby or around

Get Jimmy to post his thoughts if he is viewing this with amusement