Yes the plough was busy a few years ago but last year when I enquired as to the paucity of song I was told that the brewery had banned singing. The problem was laid at the door of the PRS!

The resolution "Do" music but perhaps they don't like the folky sort? I'm sure the little downstairs bar would not mind the odd mad mandolin, melodeon or mouth organ wielding minstrel?

Surely not?

I think sometimes it has lot to do with how many people turn up, what they are playing if the rest of the cats in the pub at that time are digging the groove AND most importantly from a Landlords point of view "Ow much ale is tha suppin"