But he's glad to have shared a stage with Schenker as they toured Japan recently with their separate outfits. Bonnet tells The Metal Voice: "I was completely out of it - I'd been drinking all day and I had a bit of an argument with Michael.

"I had all the lyrics stuck on the stage. Then the audience pushed forward and all the lyrics screwed up because the monitors shifted. I was screwed in the first song."

He continues: "My fly broke - and out comes my penis, because I don't wear underwear. Out it popped, and I made it part of the act. Everybody was telling me to f*** off. I started swearing at the audience and they were swearing back at me. I got off the stage."

Next morning his manager told him that his performance had lost him his job. "The whole thing was a shambles," says Bonnet. "I said sorry for what happened - it was just a bad day."