In the early years of the Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival, when I was the festival's one and only MC, we decided to hold an open air concert on Market Field with a trailer for a stage.
This would be around 1993, I think. I seem to recall that it was in aid of National Music Day, the Mick Jagger fronted annual event which ran for a few years in the 90s.
We had great performances from King's Ransom and Invisible People (one of Mr Bob Webb's many previous bands) and I then took the microphone to give the crowd an impromptu speech about how wonderful the festival was, how it had helped put the town on the map, brought people together in a spirit of peace and harmony and generally been the greatest and most wonderful thing ever to happen to Middlewich.
Having delivered this inspiring homily, I promptly fell off the stage in an undignified heap.