PP - I'd rather just get rid of the rude wankers that expect me to listen to their songs & then talk ostentatiously over mine. And its not because I'm no good - I am good, so there! The general pub locals are of course welcome to do whatever they generally do - within reason. And its always appreciated if the regulars do react favourably. Its usually obvious if a pub as a whole don't really want us there & we will go elsewhere without getting unduly up our own arses about it.
And no I don't want to sit in a folk club full of 50 something lapsed socialists - but that's just too true an image for comfort isn't it?
Well it is around where I live anyway.