Traitor: Hope it proves helpful. Perhaps you could post the outcome here, as I'm sure quite a few people would be interested. It's always a delicate and worrying position to be in, when somebody needs to be made aware of something which might potentially offend or upset them.

DTM: Wholheartedly agree. I don't much care for singarounds. I'm all in favour of people being allowed to have their chance to get up and sing, but I think the old way of getting up in front of the audience and doing a couple of songs was better. Singarounds seem to be encouraging mediocrity and incompetence, and there seems to be an attitude that someone having the right to have a go is more important than doing the songs any sort of justice, or that what the singer is getting out of the exercise is more important than what the audience is getting. I am of opinion that crib-sheets should be banned - as they have been in some clubs. They simply encourage people not to bother trying to learn the songs. Much better that they make the extra effort to learn songs properly, and then do their floor spot when they have a couple of songs ready to sing to the audience, rather than burying themselves behind a crib-sheet and just going through the motions, This may mean that they won't sing every week, but the audience would get more satisfaction from it , and so - surely - would the singer; is that such a bad thing?
John Kelly.