My point was actually (not that I expected many in this backwoods, silly-male-orientated (and, it has to be said, some woefully-unreconstructed women) awareness-lacking community to get it - was that such crass behaviour requires challenging throughout life but especially in a music venue where you don't exactly expect to encounter leering, Sun-reading builders scaring women away from music, when music OUGHT to be the reason why everyone is there. I seriously wonder how much this has contributed to their collapse. Shelf-life does expire.

Fancy saying women should just put up with or even enjoy such intimidation? Well, well, even I didn't expect that. Not a scrap of remorse from the perpetrators, oh no, just a campaign of baying idiocy and a ludicrous attempt to expose my identity (I think most people already know it) which resulted in someone else's personal details being displayed. Doesn't augur well for their level of intelligence which, incidentally, took a further dive when one of the pack proclaimed proudly that his venue avoids making PRS returns. Very useful in maintaining artists' intellectual property and affording them an actual living. Little wonder they're having to slope off and do day jobs instead of being lauded and properly rewarded in the declining and hopelessly flawed club circuit.

I do agree with the mysterious well-wisher that playing with html is a tad juvenile, possibly engendered by the brain-dead company I'm in who couldn't possibly grasp the satire. But as it doesn't harm or demean women or musicians struggling to make a living in a bleak climate it would certainly be a less harmful pastime for the baying pack. Sod off and try it. Oh and I didn't call for the thread to be closed, there's a crying need for it as a much-needed consciousness-raising exercise. My reference to Breezy's whistle blowing was merely a plug for the excellent Singing Referee. Too obscure? Why doesn't that surprise me?