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Club music histories can be useful for figuring out the role of music in clubs in the present, and provide stories to assist in change management. These observations are based on my experience growing up in the more conservative outskirts of clubland and playing in bands in adulthood, having eventually formed an attachment to a particular club that closed down.
“How did you get interested in working men’s clubs?”
It’s a question I get asked a lot, often by men at the bar, wondering why on earth they’re sat next to this (comparatively) young woman in glasses on her own, nursing a half-pint of cheap lager with a neutral-sounding accent. Other times it’s from bewildered middle-class friends, colleagues and acquaintances: “aren’t they horrible old racist, sexist places?”
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