Gainsborough go round in a circle, and everybody is asked if they would like to contribute something, whether it be a joke, verse, song, tune. However if you say no, they respect that, but will still ask you second time round.

That's how it works at the Beech, too. I haven't got much experience of the jump-in-when-you're-ready style of singaround & have to say I find them a bit intimidating - being an unaccompanist, I haven't got any equivalent for the prefatory strumming that tells people there's something coming, so I just have to leap in with both feet or else keep shtum.