The main problem comes from folk who just take two spoons out of the cutlery draw and think that they can add something to any piece of music by banging them together.

A friend at a Hertford session is a very good spoons player and makes it look oh so easy, but it AIN'T. You need a good ear to 'tune' the spoons and a good sense of rythm to play along. Like a number of bodhran players amateur spoon players don't seem to understand when their input is appropriate.