1. The string was a spare one anyway Pete, don't worry about it.
2. It's a bar! People should come in and then go to the bar, not stand in the doorway blocking it up.
3. If people don't stand in the doorway then others will not get stcuk behind them and hold the door open - permitting the blast of 27 steam-driven melodeons playing nearly the same thing as each other to to overwhelm any singer who is not one of the lords of steam and iron. Not to mention the use of a device first invented as a weapon of psychological warfare.
4. The tune bashers want to bash tunes without stopping and of course they are very welcome to come in and do some tunes but the singers simply can't join in with the tunes - it's merely a matter of reciprocal consideration. I enjoyed the tunes in passing (and might bring a deadly drum next year to do some of them)

Were the specialist tunes sessions at the Gordon and the Coopers as ebullient?