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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The drum turns as the players move on and off-stage, but it is in the centrepiece, rising and falling to reveal the myriad new worlds, that it really comes to life.

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At another, the band set up a drum machine and weighed down the keys of a synthesizer before leaving the stage.

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