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Six things I learned from this Guardian article featuring musicians reliving their worst ever gigs:

* Tina Weymouth really doesn't like David Byrne, does she? (Incidentally, I'd love to see Mini Kiss: "a group of dwarfs, or midgets ... little people, whichever is the politically correct way of saying it ... dressed in full outfits and makeup, but with no instruments, lip-synching to Kiss songs".)

* Will Young is an idiot. What kind of person seriously complains about getting paid in chorizo and San Miguel?

* The Jonas Brothers really are complete idiots. Who thought playing a strawberry festival would be a good gig?

* Status Quo were once capable of inciting a mass riot (though this was Scotland in the late 1960s, when the Jonas Brothers could probably have managed it).

* An early Police gig in Oxford - of all places - was once interrupted by a bunch of Nazi skinheads dancing around on stage. Said skinheads were later shown the error of their ways by the band's London promoter and a group of heavies. Perhaps the incident was the inspiration for 'Don't Stand So Close To Me'?

* Live rounds of ammunition, a baseball, a bucket of piss, a "freshly plucked but seriously used tampon": all items thrown in the direction of Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, some of which made contact. Clearly the man can't take a hint.