Batley Variety Club is situated slightly off at a tangent from Leeds, deep in the bowels of England’s roast beef and puppy-fat hinterlands. People still call it the Las Vegas of the North, but in reality it’s little more than a sophisticated workingman’s club which happens to pay top dollar for its artistes. The “future attractions” billboard boasts such luminaries as Lulu and Neil Sedaka — “Gilbert O’Sullivan is the real favorite here,” mutters the waitress, who looks like she might’ve stepped out of Five Easy Pieces.