One of my favourite's is when I booked Simon Mayor and Hilary James when I was running a folk club many years ago in the UK.

As one of their encores, Simon and Hilary were, if my memory serves me right, doing a rendition of Franz Shubert's "The Trout". Anyway, whatever it was, it involved Simon drinking a mouthful of water and "gargling" the tune at one point. Unfortunately for him, it was so funny that he also got a fit of the giggles and some of the water went "down the wrong way", causing Simon something of a paroxysm and not inconsiderable consternation in the club...

Fortunately, at that time the club met in the social club of a local hospital and several medical professionals present rushed forward to help. Luckily no "Major" harm occurred and a somewhat tousled and moistened Simon continued shortly thereafter to great applause from the audience in general and particularly from the drenched front row!

mooman