"For the first time ever, in any circus in the UK..." Those are the words you want to hear, bellowed through the air in a big top.
The new, the original, the unique. Those are the commodities that the circus has always thrived on. That is what will get you rolling up to a big top to see: something you can't see anywhere else.
In this case, ringmaster Kevin Kevin (yep, he was so good they named him twice) was introducing this year's new season attraction to Big Kid Circus: Europe's only all-female Globe of Death riders.
The globe of death is itself nothing new. In some recent reviews, I complained of seeing too many of them, with one closing almost every circus.
But there are ways to refresh the act, with bikes leaping over the globe at Circus Extreme, Circus Zyair and Planet Circus (read my review here).
The all-female trio at Big Kid provides another welcome twist, and one likely to generate something that circuses depend on: news coverage.
My preview of the Daring Dames Festival - Europe's only all-female circus festival looked at how some circus disciplines such as clowning and strongman have traditionally been almost exclusively male preserves - and how a new generation of women is now venturing into those areas.
The Globe of Death is definitely one such male dominated arena, making Big Kid's women motorcyclists remarkable.
The troupe comprises Julia from the UK, Vanessa from Brazil and Ronica from Iraq.
You can see their death-defying display on Big Kid Circus' next stop in Brent Cross.
