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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