"balladus interruptus"

Just a similar anecdote. Our trio, "Press Gang" back in the early 70s was playing Borehamwood Folk Club at the Red Lion. The room was separate, but you could see across the bar into the public bar-room. We were singing Cyril's 'Grey Funnel Line'.

About half way through the second verse, a glass tankard was thrown in the other room, hitting and breaking the optics. The barman leapt over the bar and decked the guy who thew the glass.

A bar fight broke out by verse three.

Somebody phoned the police, who must have been close as a car turned up outside on blues and twos in verse four.

Arrests were made, and the culprits were marched out of the pub in custody during verse five, and all was quite by the end of the last chorus.

We got a standing ovation for not missing a beat! That was recorded too. Its on a cassette somewhere. I played it to Cyril. He loved it.

Tone