I feel rather sadened that a good local session is in danger of being destroyed for all the wrong reasons. For those of you who havn't been to the Jug it is a very narrow room, if as sometimes happens that one set of musicians are at one end with another at the other end with people talking in the middle mayhem usual takes place with both sets of musicians attempting to start tunes. The session is a slight victim of its own success and people come to listen to the local diddly diddly band. Because we ALL enjoy it from time to time we ALL mention it to other musicians to come and join in. From my understanding and I am sure you will correct me if I am wrong an open invite has gone out globally to invite any one to come to the session another individual has seen this invite and realised that the small room can become overun with non musicians at what is a local session not a mudcat gathering and requested people not to come. This has now developed into something in my opinion that the session neither wants or needs.I hope that all the mormal musicians who read mudcat will attempt to attend and lets get it back to what it was originaly a musician's session, I hope to see other madcatters there in the future at another gathering and individuals turn up unanounced as they wish on session nights but please please please remember this is first and foremost a local session that a good proportion of attendees are mudcatters and not a mudcat night. The session as I stated earlier developed from a group of dancers and it has changed in many ways so Skipjack I find your attack on thumping melodeons unwarrented as without them the session would have never started.