Good points Mr B.

I think that "open sessions" is the main issue. It would have appeared that there were two schools of "how a session should be" at the festival and they didn't gel as well as could have been hoped.

I personally don't recall an incident when any of (maximum of 6) twentysomethings deliberately avoided conversation with anyone although I may be wrong.

As far as "modulations" are concerned, I'd like to think that the twentysomething's session etiquette when it come to shouting keys, etc is pretty good.

I'm sure we will all learn from this and, in future, things will run more smoothely.

Jeez as far as knicking someone's chair in a session is concerned, it happened to me as well over the weekend. it can only be a mistake. It happens. Move on...

T x