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| London's premier parading conga band |
| Malanga Book of Records |
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Been there,
done that...............
First gig: Cuba Solidarity Parade, Oxford Street, 26 July 1993 Hottest gig: Borneo Rainforest World Music Festival 2000 (34 C) Coldest gig: Parliament Square February 2000 (-3 C) Biggest venue: Respect 2003, Millenium Dome Smallest venue: Miniscule of Sound house band, Chats Palace, Hackney 1999 Furthest gig: Regent's Canal charity conga 2000 (5 miles) Longest gig: River Thames conga for ITV Heart of Gold charity (6 hours, 2001) Shortest gig: Street busk, Brighton Festival 2001 (5 minutes) Wettest gig: TELCO conga, Mile End Road (torrential rain November 2002) Drunkest gig: Stoke Newington Festival every year since 1994 Most rural gig: Leila and Tom's Wedding party, (somewhere in Wiltshire surrounded by sheep, 2000) Most urban gig: 'Stratford On Sea' festival 2002 Biggest band turnout: Clerkenwell Festival 2000 (18 players not counting dancers) Smallest band turnout: Respect Festival, Hackney 2002 (4 players) Most crowded gig: Portobello Road, Notting Hill Carnival (2003) Wildest crowd: The Concorde Club, Streets of Brighton Festival 1998 Youngest crowd: Kingston Green Fair 1997 (mostly in buggies) Pinkest gig: Brighton Pink Parade 1998 Floweriest gig: Hampton Court Flower Show 2003 Leftiest gig: Unison Conference, Brighton 1994 Most Christmassy gig: Burning the Clocks, Brighton 1999 in falling snow, with Continental Drifts and Carnival Collective
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