Thank you all for the feedback. It sounds as if I am doing the right thing - and for all the right reasons. A chance to add to and try out new material for my repertoire and to do it in a live environment. And to improve my performance skills. I should be having some coaching in how to work with a microphone soon in a poetry workshop that I go to.

I'm trying to use a different repertoire of songs than I would want to use in the folk clubs. The first songs I sang at the pub were The Wild Mountain Thyme, The Lord of the Dance and The Lewis Bridal Song - all chorus songs. Perhaps a little hackneyed for folk clubs but I was hoping that some of the pub audience may have heard some of them before. Seemed to be right because I bumped into one of the bar staff the day after and she said she reccgnised one of my songs -she also said "Well done!"

Thank you for all of the advice. I will read it over now more thoroughly.