If brass bands remind you of coalfields and God-fearing Sally Army matrons waving collection boxes, this Bollywood version will make you think again.

Their wild and exotic-sounding repertory includes classic Indian hits, wedding songs, folk tunes from the Punjab and the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

The players themselves, a six-piece horn section and dohl drummers, lack Bollywood glamour.

Most of them looked quintessentially English with not a veil in sight and just one turban between them.

But mesmerising Indian dance sequences projected overhead told stories of frustrated passions and unrequited love and more than made up for this.

Clips from the silver screen also showed the influences of Charlie Chaplin, Cary Grant and Clint Eastwood on Bollywood. The musical arrangements cleverly echoed this, incorporating slapstick and cowboy tunes and continually shifting styles.

What the band lacked in glitziness they made up for in their sense of fun.

They knew how to get maximum comedy value out of their brassy curves as they bounced and wriggled across the stage with great playfulness. The drum solos were inspired. It was rousing and cheerful stuff - irresistibly dancey.

My one gripe was it was it was all over too soon.