Continuing a Brighton Festival tradition which has seen Asian Dub Foundation performing live soundtracks to La Haine and The Battle of Algiers, the challenge for The Bays was how to put their own unqiue mark on a film already famous for the stomping techno heartbeat, which fuels Lola's relentless mission to save her boyfriend's life.

Tom Tykwer not only wrote and directed this brilliant German film, he also wrote and recorded a powerful soundtrack, which was impossible for The Bays to ignore both stylistically and technically.

His score plays a pivotal role in the film's intense atmosphere and pace but he also recorded the dialogue mixed with his music.

Therefore, dropping the original soundtrack would have meant dropping the German dialogue and essentially performing to a silent film with subtitles.

Refusing to lose the essential flavour of the German voices, the only solution was to get German actors to re-record the entire script - a mammoth task and indication of The Bays and Brighton Festival's commitment to this exciting project.

The result saw The Bays evolving the spirit of Tykwer's original soundtrack into a more contemporary symphony of intense swirling samples and banging dance beats.

As flame-haired Lola raced against time on her collision course with fate, you couldn't help but wonder to what extent this band, who famously never rehearse, are sharing her experience.

How an unexpected bass line or a rogue hip-hop beat could send their live score hurtling into a new and unexpected direction.

Only those lucky enough to witness both Saturday and Sunday's performances will know, as surprise guest vocalist Mari Wilson sang, What A Difference A Day Makes.