"I'll know my song well before I start singin'"

Bob Dylan.

The reason why I say that is because I have learnt, to my cost - and everybody elses, that unless I know the song inside out, I am likely to get all sorts of things wrong - even with the words in front of me.

I am not a particularly naturally brill singer BUT if I know the song well enough, I can quiet the room.

There has been a dead interesting thread on this with people talking about the difference between 'knowing' and 'having' a song, and about different people having different strategies to increase the chances of doing a good performance.

Interesting stuff - learning is what life is about, and the lessons we learn from our own mistakes are the ones that are, probably, learnt the best.

Catrin