Personally, I'm sick to death of people singing from bits of paper. The other day a bloke at our local singaround sang a 15 verse ballad. He accompanied himself on the guitar but he sang from a piece of paper on the seat of a chair in front of him - so he was actually bent over his guitar whilst singing to the chair seat! The guitar playing was competent (if you like slavish Nic Jones imitations) but the words were completely inaudible - all I heard was the guitar riff repeated 15 times and some incomprehensible mumbling. Surely, the whole point of a f**king ballad is the f**king words!! And he was not the only one mumbling through songs written on bits of paper - they're all at it these days. Sadly, I think that I will have to stop going to singarounds - mainly because I don't want to go to prison for common assault; I'm fairly sure that kneeling on someone's chest whilst forcing a piece of paper into their mouth counts as common assault (?)