Nessun Dorma.

The last marching band passed my window just after 0100 this morning but the locals kept partying until 5am. It was a joyously chaotic event, there were no police, no crowd control and definitely no plan so bands and their accompanying dancers and hangers on met at junctions all became mixed up and amazingly got sorted out and moved on - brilliant. The basic idea is that the band plays a simple recurring tune that even the youngest members of the band can play and then the real musicians can jam on top of that but it is the drums - especially the base drums that send everyone into dance overdrive. My neighbours tell me it will all be happening again next Saturday so get your flights booked now.