"From: GUEST,Jerry - PM
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 04:06 AM

Surely it all depends on your audience - regular attendees appreciate hearing new or less familiar material, but occasional attendees like to hear things they know, even though their knowledge of music is limited by their wider interests. "
And the same session / sing can be both on different evenings depending who is playing, singing, propping up the bar.
On one boxing Day afternoon wat Audlem we had a good time playing to the gallery, a week later the pub was quiet and people were trying out new material, passing round bits of manuscript and enjoying ourselves that way. And at that mixed session the done-to-death songs a great way to learn to play by ear.