But the regulars do want the music and some even bring along instruments to join in , it's the pub management or bar staff that seem to have a problem , the bar staff being aged twenty something and not into the folk music and the punters being mostly over forty years old having grown up with folk/ballads.
We have come across this reaction once before in our local G.A.A. club[Irish football] where the staff were much younger that the punters ,again the customers wanted us to be there but the bar staff did not , and again they used the television to drive us away by leaving the sound up too high.we were asked back but declined .