I will nominate for best session(though not a pub-session) the asylum-seekers hostel in Stoke on Thursday nights(I will not be more specific on the address): where I have had the privilege over the last year of hearing fantastic music from Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Armenia, Russia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Turkey and probably a few others I have forgotten(and England too, come to think of it). No venue, club or festival has to my knowledge come near to presenting a fraction of what I have heard there.