I'd be interested to know how people learn their songs - what techniques they use, how they recall. Bagpuss, we could list what works well for everybody and then see which bits of it work for us. We could tell loads of people that we have this list and they could have a look at it as well and they may find something useful too. We could call it, erm...'Baggie and Trev's Guide to Learning Songs', with a sub-title of 'Take What you Want'.

Nah, people would say it was a doctrine and attack us for being unscientific, when all we were saying was that sometimes, just sometimes mind, other people's techniques might work for us as well. Nah...that sounds like role modelling and we know that's wrong!!!!(BG)

Back to the thread, I'm not conscious of shutting my eyes to hide from the audience and it had never occurred to me that the audience may find it distracting. Sally Lemon, if I forget all my words at our gig tomorrow because I'm thinking of this you'll be in trouble! And who had to keep looking at the words at last night's practice then?