Or maybe he’s drinking buddies with the equally taste-challenged bar owner.
Sounds like a job for a mass defection to someone’s kitchen.
Hostile takeover! Hostile takeover! Pillage! Ransack! Hang his fiddle around his neck and ride him out on a bodhrán!
THERE’S session etiquette for you. 
A bodhran’s too good for the loiks of that yob! Ride 'im out on a tipper, I shay!
Aye, bring out the tipper! A nice pointy one.
That’s been my experience. I’ve plenty of times seen people start boogieing (what an awkward word to see spelled out) to all sorts of tunes played at deliberate paces more often than to speedy tunes, and the key, I think, was the pulse going on in them.
Odd sidenote: there’s a reel I’ve been working on, Cloch na Ceithre Mhíle, that sounds fast to me, but when I follow it with another reel, that reel is definitely at a slower pace than I’d normally play it, which isn’t all that fast. Some of this stuff is entirely tune-dependent, I think.
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I know exactly what you mean. Some tunes just sound almost-off-the-rails fast, the same as some sound draggy even though I feel like I’m chopping as fast as I can. I always run into that when pairing the Salamanca with the Banshee ala Bothy Band – I feel like I’ve got to roar thru the Salamanca so the Banshee doesn’t collapse in a heap.
WT*? Yet another thing to consider when set-building … 
Sounds like an interesting reel, there. Where’d you …
Ooops, nevermind. Hijack central. 
Check yer PMs, Cat. 