DON'T TRY TO SING OVER THE YAHOOS!!!! Get your mates to tell them to give you a moment of silence, if they wont, find another pub for a session. Fact is forcing it over the noise will ruin your voice - unless you go for opera training, and fact is, traditional singers are not opera singers. If they are rude to you, they don't deserve you... Cheers Larry
PS I posted a wee song about this very subject, about my leaving the sessions at Demptsy's called Dempsy's Parting Glass... Cheers again, Larry