if he'd turned up late on an open evening

"Late"! 8.32 it was, 8.33 at the very outside (and I had phoned beforehand). What really struck me was that the room was packed - regulars at that particular club obviously know that it starts bang on 8.30 & turn up ten minutes or so before that. Not that that's a bad thing, it's just unlike any other club I've known.

But I agree, "out of towner gets bumped" isn't the crime of the century - and it was a good, well-structured evening's music.