But who wants to emerge from a sweaty nylon tent every morning at the world's most glamorous festival?

At 3:45 pm, as trapeze artists began their act, the nylon tent caught on fire and then fell upon the crowd and the wooden bleachers inside.

Nylon tents were conceived for the kind of holiday where you go out in the morning and only return later, when the danger of boiling to death inside has passed.

Wonderful what you can do with nylon tents, car batteries, colour-change bulbs, and poetry.