Banbury United Are the Puritans. Their Clubhouse Hosted ‘Wet & Wild.’ They Are Now Apologising It Got Wet and Wild.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2026

Let’s rewind the tape to Saturday night in Banbury, a market town in Oxfordshire, England, where the Spencer Clubhouse — the function room at Banbury United Football Club’s ground — hosted a ticketed, 18-and-over stop on the UK Pleasure Boys’ national tour. The show was called “Wet & Wild.” The troupe was called the Pleasure Boys. And by this week, according to LADbible, Banbury United had published a formal statement apologising to anyone in attendance who was offended, saying part of the performance “went beyond what we find acceptable at our venue.” One detail before we go any further, because it is the whole story in four words: Banbury United’s nickname is the Puritans. The Puritans booked out their room to the Pleasure Boys, and the Puritans are now shocked — shocked — that the evening got wet and wild.

The room, the poster and the promise

Start with the hire, because the hire is the act. The Spencer Clubhouse sits at the club’s Spencer Stadium ground — listed in current coverage as the TUGO Community Stadium — and on a normal week it earns its keep the way clubhouses everywhere do. According to LADbible, the space usually caters to events such as weddings and birthdays. On Saturday, Oct. 17, it was booked for the evening by an external promoter as one stop on a UK-wide tour — that much is in Banbury United’s own statement, and nobody disputes it. The act was the UK Pleasure Boys. The show was called “Wet & Wild.” According to LADbible, tickets cost £16.50 for general admission, with a “VIP front row” seat going for £27.50 for the close proximity. Read those prices again. This was not a mix-up on the calendar. Nobody at Spencer Stadium that night had wandered in expecting a quiz. The poster made a promise, the room took the money, and the show set about keeping the poster’s word.

What the clips showed — and what nobody has actually established

Now the night itself, stated carefully, because careful is what this part needs. According to LADbible, videos circulating online from Saturday show male dancers wearing cowboy hats and dancing on stage before stripping off their clothing, with online commenters claiming things got heated from there. The Sun went considerably further in its framing — its headline said the show “turned into Roman orgy,” which is the Sun’s characterisation, not a finding by anybody in a position to make one, and not language this desk is adopting. The Sun quoted one attendee saying she had expected “the Full Monty with maybe a little flash of something at the end” and left, in her word, “traumatised.” It quoted another local using harsh language about fellow attendees — language we are noting as part of the coverage, not repeating as our description of anybody, because the women in that room bought tickets to the show the poster advertised, and they are not the story here. Here is what matters, and it is the part everyone involved actually agrees on: as of the club’s statement and the promoter’s comments, nobody in authority has established exactly what crossed which line. Banbury United’s own words are that “the images suggest” part of the performance went beyond what the venue finds acceptable. Suggest. Even the apology is written in pencil.

The promoter answers

The promoter is John Woodward of Adrenalin Promotions, which promotes the UK Pleasure Boys, and his position — given to more than one outlet, in more than one tone — is that the facts are still being gathered. According to the Sun, Woodward said the women of Banbury were “a very lively audience,” that the night was “more heated than usual shows” with “a great atmosphere,” and that “it isn’t clear how or what got out of hand, or if it was the women or the men who got too heated.” Speaking to the Oxford Mail, in comments carried by LADbible, Woodward was blunter about the limits of the act: “It’s pretty clear to the guys that no sexual activities are acceptable at our show, and that’s not standard stuff we would expect to happen. If there’s a specific performer that’s done something you’re not supposed to, the performer would be taken out of the show.” He said his team is still looking into “different scenarios that may have happened,” that group chats are full of people commenting who were not at the show, and that until the tour knows what is hearsay and what is fact it cannot say more — except this: “We will be distancing ourselves from anybody who’s acted inappropriately.” So the promoter’s defence, in full, is: the show has rules, the rules may or may not have been broken, by somebody, possibly, and Banbury was lively. Hold that thought next to the club’s statement, because between the two of them, the only institution that has apologised for the evening is the one that rented out the room.

The apology, in full

Banbury United’s statement is short, and it deserves to run whole, because every word of it is load-bearing. “We are aware of video clips circulating online from the UK Pleasure Boys’ ‘Wet & Wild’ show held at The Spencer Clubhouse on Saturday 17th October. This was a ticketed, 18+ event,” the club wrote. “The images suggest that part of the performance towards the end went beyond what we find acceptable at our venue. We apologise to anyone in attendance who was offended. The venue was booked for that evening by an external promoter as part of a UK-wide tour. We are reviewing what happened and will revise our hire and conduct terms for performance events as a result.” The club gave a contact address — clubhouse@banburyunitedfc.co.uk — for anyone wishing to raise a concern. Fox News, through OutKick, reached the conclusion the statement seems determined to walk around: if a show called “Wet & Wild” by a group calling themselves the Pleasure Boys is outside your comfort zone, the time to discover that is before you take the booking, not after the clips come out. That is OutKick’s framing, and on this one occasion the tape agrees with it completely.

A word about the nickname

Some history, because the history is doing stand-up on its own. According to the club’s Wikipedia entry, Banbury United were founded in 1931 as Spencer Sports Club, the works team of the Spencer Corsets factory — the club began life attached to a corset works, and somehow still grew up to be called the Puritans. They have played at the Spencer Stadium since the 1934–35 season; when the club joined the Southern League in 1966, floodlights went up and a new clubhouse was built to replace the railway carriages that had served as changing rooms. That clubhouse lineage runs straight to the Spencer Clubhouse of Saturday night. A club with ninety-odd years of non-league football behind it, six Oxfordshire Senior Cups, and a nickname that sounds like a moral code rented its function room to a touring male revue whose entire brand is in its name — and the revue, by every account including the sympathetic ones, delivered the brand. The nickname is not the club’s fault. The booking, and the surprise, belong to the venue management entirely.

The verdict

So let’s be fair about where the foolishness sits, because it does not sit with the audience, and it does not automatically sit with four dancers doing the job on the poster. It sits with a hire decision and the amnesia that followed it. If “what we find acceptable at our venue” was a real standard, Saturday was the night to enforce it — at the booking meeting, with the show’s name printed at the top of the page. Instead the standard was discovered afterwards, in public, in a statement that apologises for a show the venue hosted, promoted by a promoter who says he still does not know what happened, at a club whose nickname wrote the punchline before anyone on this desk could. You cannot sell a room to “Wet & Wild,” take £16.50 a head and £27.50 for the front row, and then act betrayed by weather you ordered. Review the hire terms, by all means. Just know the old ones were not the problem. The problem is that nobody read the poster.

THE VERDICT — After review: Banbury United’s venue management are outta pocket.

The Puritans will play football at Spencer Stadium this season, the clubhouse will host weddings again, and somewhere in Banbury there is a revised set of hire and conduct terms being drafted with great seriousness. None of it changes the tape: a club called the Puritans hosted the Pleasure Boys, the Pleasure Boys performed a show called “Wet & Wild,” and the only surprise on the night was that anyone was surprised. The tape says otherwise. The tape always says otherwise.