Thanks Steve! Whilst I like the idea of responding to dancers, I find it a relief to see Steve's point. I don't think our band could collectively respond to a room full of people - our 'problem' if it can be called that - is responding to each other.

I guess most of the time our lead musician takes us in with one 'A' at about the right tempo and we try to stay with him.

But I am still interested in how other bands arrive at the right tempo and saty there.