The standard of performance of BOOKED and paid artists has always been high since I started going to Song Clubs in the mid sixties .
However the same is NOT true of floor singers today . There are two clubs local to me that I have stopped going to entirely simply because the majority of the local singers seem incapable of learning a song without the words in front of them , and in many cases actually hold the words in front of them , so they are singing AT their bloody song book , not TO the audience