Talking of racism and similar matters in performance venues, I'll just add that - in my experience of playing in working men's clubs, social clubs, trades & labour clubs, private clubs, British Legions for over 13 years from the early '80s onwards - it was only a matter of time before the 3rd-rate comedian on the bill started on the racist, sexist and blue jokes. It was rife. Sometimes the audience would scream with laughter - sometimes they would not. Our response as a band either waiting to play or having played, would be to get out to a dressing-room as fast as we could.

I do remember one night, at a club in Brighton where there were friends' elderly parents and family in the club, that we lost our tempers and heckled the comedian so viciously that he dropped part of his act and left early. The club owner wasn't pleased, so we told him to fuck off and left as well. Not a career move, but we felt OK about it...