I used to be part of a 3 piece, all female band in Alice Springs, Australia. We were asked to sing at an Italian restaurant on Australia Day one year. Quite an unusual venue for us ... with an unusual remit!

Anyway, being used to folk loving audiences, who usually paid some attention to the performance, we were thrown by an audience who were only interested in one thing - food! We may as well not have been there!!! So we dealt with this by thinking that, ah well, we can look on it as a practice session, and hey - we would even be paid for it.

Fine.

During one unaccompanied song, we all got the giggles. I mean - WE REALLY got the giggles! Hold on to your sides or you'll burst, don't look at me it makes it worse sort of giggles! (It's makes me laugh to think of it now, 18 years later)!

Then, we suddenly became aware that every single person in that restaurant had stopped eating and was not paying us full attention. We somehow pulled ourselves together and managed to finish the song .... pointless really, because almost as soon as we stopped giggling, they all turned their full attention back to the important task of eating.

The funniest performing experience of my life ...