He played a request for me when I saw him a few months ago.

He usually invites people to sing along or clap during the more popular songs and the ones with a chorus, but he does expect people to listen to his music. I have known him to ask people to stop clapping if he thinks it spoils the song. I don't think it's 'precious' - as he says, if he spent weeks writing a song, he wants people to listen to it.

The bar is usually shut during his performance. I assume this is to minimise the amount of people walking in and out during the songs. Good for him, say I. When I went to see Moving Hearts at the Royal Festival Hall last week, the amount of people wandering about during the performance was appalling. Surely it's good manners to go to the bar or the toilet in between the tunes, not during.