Band director and radio presenter Yutaka Nishida hails from Tokyo and has long been a friend of composer Philip Sparke. As well as conducting bands and teaching, he also presents a weekly two-hour music programme, focusing on both brass and concert bands, on the Japanese national radio station, Digital Radio Musicbird.The programme is called <I>The Bandwagon</I> and the radio station commissioned Philip Sparke to write a march which could be used as a theme tune for the programme. The result is ...