Horses for courses and most sessions/singarounds grow into what they are. We have just moved from the noisy rough and tumble of the Tap & Spile in the City centre, York, to The Shoulder of Mutton a few hundred yards further out of town which is deathly quiet and it seems like the soul has been ripped out of the session everyone now sits in silence and gently applauds after each song or tune. very few new people are introduced to the music because it is away from the main tourist footfall. I still go and enjoy it but the craic is not the same. Ah well each to their own, my pet hate is people reading songs from books whilst they are singing, hate is too strong a word, pet dislike I think is the word, i can't understand how anyone could sing a song well if they are not immersed in it and the words.
Tin helmet is on and I am digging furiously!!!!!