Central Scotland Police has disbanded its pipe and drum band and reformed it as a civilian one.
The Pavilion bar serves afternoon tea, then segues into tropical cocktails as the evening settles in, the stars light up, and a steel-drum band takes the stage.
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Champion accompanied the band's five other drum majors and Julian White, the band director, from the stadium to the Rosen Plaza Hotel where they were staying, in a limousine, arriving with the buses at the hotel no later than 8 p.m.
Rocking out to the blaring guitar riffs, wailing harmonica and gut-rattling drum rolls by house band Kostiza is a great way to kick off a night of bar hopping.
At another, the band set up a drum machine and weighed down the keys of a synthesizer before leaving the stage.
But, interpreted as a general call for tax reform, the Forbes drum-beat is likely to attract a growing band of followers.
We all in the band know how to use a fairly famous drum machine called the MPC, made by Akai, which actually these days, quite an old-school way of writing beats and rhythms if you're not using a live drummer.
He said: When I left I felt like continuing it, so I found a local TA band in Middlesbrough, rang them up and asked if they needed a drum major.
It was developed after the second world war when the bombarde was added to the Scottish pipe band that had been imported complete with highland bagpipes, snare drums and a great drum.
With a horn section, a violinist, two full drum kits and a designated conductor, Broken Social Scene doesn't quite fit the traditional rock band mold.
It's hard to tell when the band is winking at its audience, yukking it up behind epic double-guitar leads and dramatic drum fills.
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Today, the band has 60 trained members who share 16 trombones, six side drums, four tubas and a bass drum.
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After 20 minutes, two men on dhol (a large handheld drum with the tubby resonance of the tabla and the kinetic force of a conga) who were not with the band joined the parade and started playing along to the music.
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