The Snail and I have conversed (electronically)

The way we at The Lewes Arms go about things works for us and the suggestions I and others gave earlier may (or perhaps not) work for other places.

Whatever they do (assuming the recognize their problems) it seems that many places need to think hard about how they put on whatever it is they do.

I have seen the situation where you have 4 musician round a table bashing out their tunes and each of them seemed to me to be barely aware of the other three (head down, eyes closed and so on)let alone any body else. OK it was close to closing time and the Guinness had been consumed in some quantity (it was one of the "Irish" sessions I mentioned earlier)

Dave