"First time I heard Bob Davenport in 1964(he's well known for plain speaking) a floor singer got up and spent fully 3 minutes explaining the song he was about to sing. Bob stood up and shouted from the back- 'Sing the fucking song man, stop talking about it'"
I saw behave like this a few years ago in the Musical Traditions Club, in this case, towards a young woman singer from The Aran Islands who had taken the trouble to give a brief explanation of her Irish language songs.
Two completely different situations, Which Jim lumps together to have a go about Bob Davenport.
There is no need to explain the story of a song if you are going to sing it, there is a good reason for explaining a song in a different language, NAMELY people who do not understand the language can know what its about.