Adam Buxton

But it also introduced...

some slightly unwelcome anxiety because there were times when he really thought, I think Shane's going to drop her and then she's going to die.

Yeah, she's going to just fall down on her head.

Exactly.

Plus, all the acrobats must have done shots before the performance.

Yeah, he loved it.

He was absolutely knocked out.

I don't think he'd ever actually seen a whole orchestra perform like that.

So he was completely...

But we all agreed that actually we didn't necessarily need the acrobats.

No disrespect to the acrobats who were amazing.

And at one point, like their big thing was to form themselves into sort of human steps.

And then they would take turns climbing up the human steps to stand on the shoulders of the person at the end of the step formation until they were standing three high on each other's steps.

At the end, all of them climbed onto this tower of people until one guy, it wasn't Shane, it was some other guy, was holding the whole lot of them, like nine of them or something, holding them all.

And he, I mean, you could really see him quivering away.

It's not like he was standing there stock still.

It was just like, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

And they were all sitting there going, keep it together, keep it together, because if we fall, we're all going to get badly injured.

We ended up having a drink nearby where we were staying, which was nice, nice unwind, but it was lovely.

It was so good.