"Hands up who has been asked to 'sing something we know'...!! "

Reminds me of a bar singaround a mate tried to start 18 months ago. Apart from a few loyal folkies happy to support any of our colleagues on a new session, all we got was a a group of good natured drunks - who came out with the classic line above.

I said sorry I didn't do well known songs; I'm a singer songwriter. "Oh", said one of our merry viitors: "Can you do Oasis?' .

The good thing was that we discovered a very keen guitarist through that venture who comes along to our well established singarounds from time to time.

On the main issue, I really can't see any point in a musician/performer playing whilst the Bar Tele is on unless they're getting well paid.

However, given that a publican might offer lots of money to compete with penalty shoot outs, then certainly look around for anyone enjoying what you do despite the odds, and get them along to a singaround where they can experience our preferred music in a better environment.


Ian Fyvie