From: Howard Jones - PM
Date: 03 Apr 14 - 04:10 AM

From: Leadfingers - PM
Date: 03 Apr 14 - 05:21 AM

From: GUEST,CS - PM
Date: 03 Apr 14 - 06:30 AM

From: Dave Sutherland - PM
Date: 03 Apr 14 - 08:24 AM

 to all of these. My opinion is that reading words may be all right for free singarounds or a gathering of friends but is never acceptable when an audience is paying to get in.
As for age, well perhaps there is a time to stop... but my wife and I gave a performance to a capacity audience that lasted 2 1/2 hours last Saturday, singing over 40 items without words prompts and never fluffing a word. How? Because we worked very hard indeed at rehearsing the programme. Our combined ages are 140.