• I heard that you'd been performing for 24 hrs....non-stop! Is it right?

Yes, I did a show last year in 2001 at the European Juggling Convention in Holland. At the start, I just jokingly said I was going to do a 24 hr show & it strangely turned into reality. I was the last act of the Renegade show (on a Friday... I think it was) & my show was so long... that it delayed the Renegade show the following night by 3 hrs, so it was nice that they let me do the full day on stage. After a few hours into the show there was a huge thunder bolt bang which freaked everyone out. It was completely full on... the loudest bang I've heard in my whole life! Probably the big bang set the energy right...

1. I heard that you'd been performing for 24 hrs....non-stop! Is it right?

Yes, I did a show last year in 2001 at the European Juggling Convention in Holland. At the start, I just jokingly said I was going to do a 24 hr show & it strangely turned into reality. I was the last act of the Renegade show (on a Friday... I think it was) & my show was so long... that it delayed the Renegade show the following night by 3 hrs, so it was nice that they let me do the full day on stage. After a few hours into the show there was a huge thunder bolt bang which freaked everyone out. It was completely full on... the loudest bang I've heard in my whole life! Probably the big bang set the energy right... for the epic of a jestering marathon show? After about 14 hours I said I was going to do longer than my previous 16 hr record in 96... & when I got to it... I thought I may as well go for another 8 hours to do the full 24. After about 18 hrs... it really was starting to thin out... as everyone wanted to see the main gala show (in the sports stadium) & there were 2 of them on the same night... I think! I managed to keep 5-6 people there for a whole hr… & said... "Please go & see the gala show... don't miss it because of me!" They said..."no"!... & so I must say... it was a long hour... but... into 19 hrs... it just picked up... & more & more people came. I needed to go to the toilet after about 19 & a half hrs... & thought... if I leave the No Fit State Circus tent (where I was doing the show)... then the show stops... so someone brought me a rubbish bin... to do number 1 (piddle)... & I wrapped a German girl's sleeping bag around me... & everyone thought I was taking the piss... which quite literally I was. It was an illusion... but someone timed it... & it went for 4 & a half minutes. The longest I'd ever done! I must say I did drink a lot of alcohol... which is unusual for me... as I'm not much of a drinker usually. I drank everything offered to me... many different beers, vodka, wine, brandy, champagne, rum, gin & tonic, Irish Bailey's to even Black Magic (liquorice liqueur).The funny thing was that I was using so much adrenaline… that I couldn't even get pissed... when usually I'd be a little tipsy after 1 & a half bottles of smaller beer. I didn't smoke any joints... at… all... but... was offered many, many, many... many as it was in Holland. The last 2 hrs were really fun... & the whole tent was packed & I just got more & more adrenaline from the audience. I was at that stage wearing a pink frilly satin dress... with jester jerkin (jacket) over the top... with boobs as well (balloons inside the jester coat). I didn't have any stockings on... but had a jester's hat on... with a long nose & green bell on the end of it. Also wearing pixie green curly shoes… & sometimes a black & red Dracula cape I would take on & off. The stage looked like some strange mind map... littered with toys, junk, confetti, toilet paper & fruit & vegetables & whatever else?
I really liked the part of the show... when 2 dogs entered the scene... a big one & a small one. The big one kept getting my squeaky rubber stick & the little one was always left out… so it eventually made it's own game... chasing a little bit of burst balloon... or some other tiny silly piece of anything... & the big dog would try & get it off the small dog... but the small dog would drop it & pick up something else... & keep doing this to confuse the bigger dog! The interaction between the two was pure natural comedy. It was magic... so funny! In the last 2 hrs I danced around to really gnaff music... like a wildcard transvestite jester nincompoop... doing anything that came to mind. Also did many laps around the circus ring... dodging... assorted junk... on a mini-red clown bicycle. The last half hr... really was nuts... & could feel thee energy getting more & more exciting as the crowd were eager to see the full (fool) 24 hrs. I did a condensed version of my show in 30 minutes & finished with the fire-skipping rope on my unicycle. The crowd counted down 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… & it felt like an explosion of cosmic nonsensical carnivalesque merry-go-round euphoria after the count of one! I will never forget that feeling... it was truly an enlightening experience. I was silly to put itching powder in my underpants in the last half hour... as... after I packed up & watched a few more acts (2 hrs later)... when I finally had a shower... I really had a red rash around my groin. I was itching to buggery. I did stay awake & hanged out for another 4hrs... & had 9hrs sleep that night (well morning)... & didn't even get a hang-over! Ha ha he he ha...!!!