I'm a singer who plays the guitar a bit, and I occasionally play at a session at the Blue Bell, Gringley. I strum along with the tune-players and, if they ask me, I sing a song (or two!). If they didn't ask me, I wouldn't force a song on them, but they invariably ask. Just seems like a happy setup there, with plenty of mutual respect being shown. It's a very nice session indeed.

My main grouse about some tune-players (and there's one of these at that session sometimes!!) are those who, apparently deliberately, play obscure tunes at breakneck speed, with several key-changes which, as a non-reader, I find almost impossible to follow, and then smirk in a very superior fashion at my discomfiture (and that of some of the others trying to join in!). I presume some of those who've posted on this thread would say it serves me right for being a sub-standard musician?

Johnny :0)