I was just Googling Phil Palmer a bit and found this interview:
http://www.performing-musician.com/pm/apr09/articles/philpalmer.htm Great stuff. But check out this hilarious bit:
“We’d been on tour for two months or so in the US and were really suffering the American food, which was bland and always the same,” recalls Palmer. “One night, we ended up in Toronto, I think it was, and someone in the catering company found a Marks & Spencer there and bought a thousand pork sausages. So the caterers made this classic English dish of bangers with English mustard and mashed potatoes with fried onions and vegetables, and everybody was drooling. When we came to the gig venue, everybody launched into this massive heap of sausages, but Mark being Mark, he decided that he would have his food after the show and asked the caterers to set a plate aside and keep it warm.
“While we were on stage, somebody found his reserved meal and pinched one of the sausages. I still have this image of Mark coming off the stage and going to the caterers with his headband still on, and then screaming at the caterers because his sausages had gone and there were no more left to replace it. He got the whole crew one by one into his dressing room, without even changing shirt, questioning them about the missing sausages. It was a serious situation, because he was saying, ‘Whoever ate my sausages, he is going home.’ It was a total Spinal Tap moment. He never found out who it was. The next day, to try and make light of the situation, the road crew made a set list with titles like ‘Romeo And Sausage’, ‘Sausages For Nothing’ and so on, but that did not go down too well. It took several days before the whole thing calmed down!”
I'm just dying here... HAHA! Sausages for Nothing!
