Adam Buxton

I'm so glad we did it.

And right at the beginning of the performance as well, I don't go to the theater very often, but I often have a couple of minutes at the beginning of something like that, where you are reminded how amazing it is that this kind of thing happens.

Here we are in the Royal Festival Hall, a couple of thousand people and a few hundred on the stage with the orchestra, with the acrobats, with the choir.

They're so talented.

They're doing all this incredible, intricate performance for us, for other human beings.

And it's all just for us.

It's not like it's being recorded or broadcast live.

It was just...

a thing that was happening in this building for each other, regardless of where we stood on various contentious culture war issues.

You know what I mean?

And it was really quite moving and life affirming and sort of reminded you, the world's a dark place, but this is kind of part of what it's all about.

Like this is why we want to all get along.

And so, yeah, I had that moment of hippie-ish oneness and wonder.

then that you're sharing this experience yes exactly it's special to be in a room with lots of other people and they told you at the beginning as well can you not clap because it'll interfere with the music and it could increase the chances of one of the australians dying

What a shame.

Were you allowed to clap at the end?

Yeah, we were all clapping.

I stood up and there was lots of people whooping.

I got some vibes from some of the other concert goers that it's not appropriate to, you don't need to do a standing O every single time you go to the theatre.

A standing O is only for very special occasions.