That was just a tale I got McGrath so I don't know how close it really did get. Most sessions I have been to have been trouble free fortunatly and I have only once witnessed violence involving a participant in a session or a folk club - not a bad record since lets say about 1980.

The pub where the fiddle and the guitar player had there fallout did have one arrest during a session night though. There was this chap who was very drunk and had come into the pub with his own supply of whiskey. Not only was he drinking it but he was tipping some into other peoples glasses and helping himself to others beer... The landlord called the police as he refused to leave the premises.

There was a tale of an incident in a party/session for musicians and their friends after a night in the pub during the Bangor Festival. Apparently some gate crashers arrived and were told they weren't welcome. One of the gate crashers hit the host and suddenly one of the musicians, someome from away, ?one of the Manchester crowd? who was a big chap got up, knocked the offender clean out with one punch and soon had order restored.

Jon