Starting with a (natch) shocking pink Lurex and chenille peplumed jacket over loose black velvet pants, he segued into an iridescent rainbow of jewel tones — emerald, sapphire, tourmaline, garnet, turquoise — set off against an onyx backdrop, and worked in a variety of bristling, sparkling, three-dimensional ways.

John Leedham had the unfortunate distinction of being the last person in Derbyshire to be hanged for a crime other than murder when he was executed for bestialism outside the Derby New County Gaol on 12th April 1833.

There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

The components of Roland's heroness can not be contemplated per se. The audience perceives those components or qualities concretely through Roland's acts.