The classic English pub music session was probably almost extinct by 1980.

When we started the Brighton Singers' Folk Club in a pub bar in 1980, already visitors were calling in and saying "just like it USED to be in London...".

Rather than trying to replicate what's going on in a typical English pub now* (nothing much except for a load of eyeballs staing at TV Sport", I'm all for music fans of folk/musichall/old 'popular' types of music trying to recreate that typical old English pub music singalong - to show the brainwash resistant punters what good fun pubs could be again. [Theory: TV sport has far more to do with the death of so many English pubs than any smoking ban!]   

*Talking about the typical pub were nothing special goes on of course - apart from the 'ON' switch. There are still lots of folk type sessions and similar, hapenning every week/ month in public bars - including NEW ones in our part of Engalnd.

PS Brighton Singers' Folk Club bar singarounds are now at The Pond, Gloucester Road, near Brighton (main) raolway station. - every wednesday.