After Barbara's calming intervention and Jim's assurance that he didn't wish to offend me, I spent some time this morning looking back through this thread and analysing what has been said so that I could prepare a reasoned presentation of our clubs policy, philosophy and motivation. It would have started with a description of the fantastic evening we had last night with the first booking of The Twagger Band.

Twenty people out of an audience of thirty performed (including fellow 'catter Will Fly) and not a dud amongst them.

Then I refreshed the thread to find -

Richard - please tell us who (apart from those of you championing crap standards) has mentioned 'audition'.
Jim Carroll

Do you mean me, Jim? If so, sorry, but I'm not prepared to engage with you on that level.

This thread is supposed to be about manners.