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The crowd at the end were on a 'surprise' drunken evening, and one of the stops for their bus was a surprise visit to a video shoot. They had about 15 minutes to dance their butts off, and then out they went ... t'was hilarious.– Swingers lead singer Phil Judd, April 2009
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