Playing one day with that fine Leitrim fiddler Ben Lennon, we found we had shared in some of the lovely Irish music in London in the sixties. Don't recall such as Raymond Roland or Paddy Malynn being particularly fast players- anyway, Ben told me of an English friend coming to the session with him- the White Hart ran 5 nights a week then.
Ben told me he'd taken an English friend one night & had seen him across the room obviously enjoying the atmosphere, but didn't see him for a while afterwards.
When he did, Ben asked if he'd enjoyed the night. 'Oh it was great, he said, but why did they play the same tune all night? Oh, and at the end, why did they all stand up and play it again?