Has there been any embarrassing or dangerous moments whilst performing the show?

"Sometimes with all these death-defying acts… like one guy, ‘Perch’ - the 50ft metal pole that screws together, one night it all came undone so you had big metal poles flying through the air and one nearly hit me! Stuff like that doesn’t usually happen though, as the show is pretty safe.

"Sometimes the click track and the computer will completely freeze and you just have to carry on with the show yourself. One time in Amsterdam the generator went down, the lights and amps went out and this guy was still performing on the stage - but thankfully it was quite a drummy thing and he and I managed to finish the act because at least it’s all live drums and nobody in the audience seemed to notice any difference!"

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