If no-one has been booked to lead a session then it mostly goes with the majority, but as I understand it, this was not the case here.

It was advertised as an open session... they were asked by the organisers to fill it out... they were in the majority and no-one was booked to 'lead' the session.

Having seen Tom Bliss perform (or was it a dream?...so many performers that I've apparently never seen, according to one person in here) I can only say Houston, that Tom is a performer for whom I have a great deal of respect.

I am not attacking Tom's abilities as a session leader or performer, I am merely stating that there are a lot of people assuming what happened in a session when all they have is a version of events from a disgruntled session player and a load of support to slate them because they are young.

I respect you all and I know that you love folk as much as myself and these guys do... I just want to be able to make you happy people and not attacking people. Give advise at the time when it will make a difference... creating a thread full of Chinese whispers does not help in the advise department especially when directing it to youngsters because of the assumption that they are inexperienced... the advise should be broad based to all ages...