In Copenhagen a few years ago I counted six identical fake Red Indian bands, all plastic feathers and azo-dyed acrylic clothes, all miming to the same music and with identical rigs - Mackie mixer, JBL sepakers, AKG microphones.

Then in Lisbon a few weeks ago there was another lot in one of the big squares, drowning the place with more mimed tripe and the Big Chieftain character with the biggest panpipes dropped his panpipes while trying to reach a nose flute in time for a nose flute solo and the music kept playing so I went over and wolf whistled into his mic and.....nada - a completely un-amplified wolf whistle limped across the square.

I came across this thread after trying to Google for the Instant PanPipe Band Kit from the Acme Corporation that these guys must obviously be getting from the same place. I want in on the action - they obviously make a fortune. And if the moron of a German woman who went over to the ones in Lisbon and put her hands together and bowed (I kid you not) is anything to go by, they probably receive regular sexual favours for their efforts, too.