Ah Guest.... I know that well...

Once spent a fantastic afternoon with a group of people in a youth hostile. We'd tried to get into a pub session but the room was too small so we retired to the hostile for an afternoon of singing, joking, drinking, tea making and noodling. There was no real structure, people jumped in with a song they felt was appropriate to the conversation or if a previous song suggested it; everyone got a turn if they wanted, no-one chattered through singers; new songs were sung, old songs were stolen from others, old jokes were revived and new jokes made... It was going really well until the other lot who had been able to get into the session returned from the pub. Suddenly someone was organising us into strict order, telling us when we could sing and then talking through the singers. A 4hour session fell apart in about 15 minutes.

AND EVERY PERSON IN THAT ROOM WAS A MUDCATTER!

LTS