Smallpiper, I have been thinking about your comments regarding singers talking through tunes and whilst I dont accept it to be true of all singers I do agree that it does happen (and visa versa I might add espcially a certain fiddle player who stood between me and Hazel once and had a conversation with someone behind us midsong) the only reasonable explanation I can think of is numbers- if you get a lot of musicians playing together people tend to talk assuming the volume will drown them out. equally if you have a number of singers singing you are more likely to hear people speaking. I think we have to live with it -it is particularly ignorant when there is solo work going on either a tune or a song but frankly we perform in public bars and I guess we have to accept it.