Some of them plugged up my toilets, and one band set fire to some paper towels and set off our sprinkler system, flooding the whole basement.
It featured some fine bands, fire-eaters, sword-swallowers, a brilliantly surreal puppet tribute to Jabberwocky, and a disquieting Grand Guignol act involving a bird-skull-headed woman and some large scissors.
The shy could simply enjoy the park's entertainment — folksy bands, fire-wielders, fortune tellers or archery ranges.
Then a curtain pulls back, the band fire up Jet and even Wings-haters are powerless to resist.
Robert Kidney's half-sung, half-spoken declamations only add to the drama, while the band fire off ingenious, multilayered riffs and rhythms that sometimes collapse into almost-freeform psychedelic reveries.
"I don't know what you've been told," he begins, as the band fire off handclaps, and Kele stands a little straighter, "but this starts now/Walk tall/Walk tall".
There are some earthy grooves from down South and across the Atlantic, courtesy of the Civil Wars and the Boxer Rebellion, while the North Mississippi Allstars have a jam-band fire sparking their sound.
Fireworks being used by the band Great White set fire to flammable foam inside the club.
Here, though, they seem new, and freshly appreciated by the crowd, every time a band fires them up.
As the band fired up on Wednesday evening, reeling off an up-tempo rendition of Sweet Caroline, delegates danced arrhythmically.
