Turning up as homeless itinerant performers, they developed their concept of Situation Art while performing in cafes from town to town and performing on trains between different towns - and performing in railway station cafeterias, ticket-halls and trams. The Leuven University newspaper VETO wrote in those early days about the situation art of Bongo and Extremely.
But years later the Belgian state appeared to declare war on situation art, regardless of the fact that Mike and Jeremy had originally been inspired by being there. As already mentioned above, licensing schemes were used as an excuse to stamp out street and terrace performances. The one place in Belgium that the musicians had found where situation art could be performed for substantial continuous periods - the Brussels Metro - was taken over by a reign of extreme violence carried out ostensibly by the Metro police against performers, justified by a purported invasion of romanian gipsies; a vicious turnaround from the days when metro train drivers would stop their trains as they pulled into a station to greet Bongo Mike and Extremely Frank if they saw them on the platform, waiting to board the train to start their performance on a carriage.
The various other more occasional performance situations as mentioned above were likewise stamped out as the monopoly euro-bureaucracy moved to flatten all culture and lifestyles that exhibited individualism or independence - eg Leuven station, which was turned into something which looked to the formerly itinerant performers like an inhuman monument to modern architecture, whereas the earlier old station used to be a good spot for ticket hall performances.