Ian,

When you say, "But going somewhere to see a guest without doing two or three songs myself - really isn't my scene." can't you see how arrogant that sounds? Presumably, when you have featured guests at your club you cut short their time so that you can play at least three songs. Do you extend that right to all of your floor singers?

Let's suppose you got "a mass of floorsingers queueing up" at your club to see your guest and all of them want to play. Would you tell them it's not worth staying, because they'd only get one song, and some of them wouldn't get the chance to play at all?