STREET PARTY - A WONDERFUL CRITICAL MASS

Wall to wall brides-to-be everywhere you look. I'm just trying my best to look after Hen Liz, when Hen Toni turns up, and it all gets really confusing. Hen parties are almost always great, so I always try to give 'em my full attention, but 2 x 100% is more than I'm equal to, Never had a traffic jam of hens before!

None of this is helped when three fake pseudo hens turn up. Look darlings, are you really saying that you're all getting married and none of you has any other friends? Maybe I'm an old cynic, but I don't care how many 'L' plates you're wearing, I reckon you're telling big fat porkies! They're really naughty and demanding too, so I've gotta keep telling them to behave themselves and stop hassling the singer!

Super big shouts to Hen Toni, Hen Beth, Hen Liz, Hen Sarah, Hen Helen, Birthday Jo, New Dad-To-Be Robert, Simon, Ed, Lovely Sarah, and Opera Singing Emma Louise. Ed and Si say Alex was out too, but staggered home to an early bed, the lightweight! Some really nice quotes tonight, especially from Casandra, but didn't take my phone out, so I've gone and forgotten them all.

My best night ever for takings, and there's a big crowd of fans singing along at the top of their voices for hours on end. It really is amazing that I've managed to build up this crazy street party residency. It's kind of humbling cause I'm the leader, but it'd be nothing without everyone else making it special. Feel like this year, it's reached some kind of wonderful critical mass.

Does this kind of thing happen anywhere else? Cause I've never seen it, I've never heard about it, and I've never read about it. Was going to go to the Hay-On-Wye Festival, but I'm feeling some kind of responsibility to everyone, like I've got to be on the corner every weekend, or people won't have anywhere to go once the clubs close.