McGrath,

If you like a bit of the roughstuff with your music, perhaps you'd better move over to this side of the pond. I've got quite a few stories that are more or less true--everything from a real wild west style brawl where one of the participants smashed the mirror hehind the bar with a chair, to the night I stepped out to get some extra strings from my car just in time to see a shooting(and this a coffee house gig)--when the cops finally showed up, it was to tell us that the band was too loud (the neighbors apparently called them and complained that we drowned out the shooting), though perhaps you shouldn't judge the whole country by my experience, as I do a lot of original material--