An apt timing for this topic as some of the performers in our club have really wound me up lately.....

First the people who get up and hog the floor for twenty minutes 15 minutes before closing time after being asked to do a quick set, when there's another 2 guests still to go on.

Second, coming in and disrupting the place in the middle of the session, bringing armfuls of instruments, leaving them all over the floor so people can trip over them, taking over whatever table they descend on with capos, fingerpicks, whistles, songsheets etc.

Thirdly the ignorant bastards who hear something slightly bluegrassy and complain 'there's too much country for me'. Substitute bluegrassy/country for anything slightly off the beaten track of the folk tradition. What makes out club successful is the mix of material performed.

I could go on... I appreciate that the organiser should take reponsibility for controlling much of this. We have a rotating list of organisers and perhaps we need to draw up some house rules...