Last night I experienced just about the perfect paradigm of

(a) why the clubs can be a great experience and (b) why the clubs can be terrible.

a) The guest singer was a true professional, with his own PA & monitor, therefore could be heard properly both by the audience and himself over Milan v Liverpool downstairs. He had obviously been doing this all over the world for a long time, didn't spend ages tuning up, gave just the right inter song chat.

However...

b) One chap, obviously there every week, decided to sing a certain very rude "traditional" song in a floor spot. Full marks for chutzpah. Needless to say he forgot the words - didn't matter, he was too old to sing 'em anyway. Frankly he sounded like a dirty old g*t. God alone knows what the few younger people present thought - I know exactly what my 19 year old son would have said!

Just an anecdote, and I've honestly tried not to be personal - but I think that club could be contributing to its own demise. And it's sad.