Howard Jones

It is up to the club to decide who will be invited to perform.

Very true.

Your club clearly takes a laissez-faire approach

No, it does not. We operate a considered policy of giving everybody the opportunity to perform. We have been doing so for quite a long time. OK, we get the occasional dud but we have not filled up with people singing John Denver songs out tune from a songbook. Most results vary between acceptable and wonderful.

It should have been perfectly obvious that my final comment was about such clubs which allow poor singers to perform, not about your own club.

But you are accusing us of allowing poor singers to perform.