Soldier Boy,

The phrase endless "Twiddley Dee" tells it all. You don't like a night of Irish Traditional tunes, and want it to be an entertainment.

That is fine, but if this is intended to be a traditional Irish session in a Dublin pub, then that means a night of tunes, with maybe a few songs if the musicians want that.

There are venues that have sing songs and that is fine, there are sessions with a mix of songs and tunes, and I love them. But a night of traditional tunes is what a lot of people want. Anyone who understands the music knows its more than "Twiddley Dee" and if you don't go somewhere else. It's that simple!

By the way, based on the set list, Shaneo's group obviously do mostly songs with a few tunes thrown in, so they don't fit into that category, and most of what they do are crowd pleasers, including having gusests from the audience. So the argument about just playing tunes doesn't apply to them.

But if a session is there as a tunes session, that is a perfectly valid thing to do, and if there are good musicians in the session I and many others would prefer that for the whole night to a crowd of drunks singing the fields of Athen feckin' Ry yet again. And no-one need apologise for that.