The Duchess insists this guy sounds drunk. He does have a warble to his voice and a certain anguished quality, but wouldn't you if you lived in Bulgaria? Gypsies all over Europe are emerging from the shadows in the post-Soviet, post-Yugoslav civil war era. Sofia is one of the grimmest spots. In 1969 I was detained by the Bulgarian border guard for having long hair, suspected of being an anarchist. After a haircut with a pair of tiny manicure scissors which made me look like an escaped mental patient, I was allowed to continue my journey, hitch-hiking across their beautiful country. It was hard to even get bread in Sofia, everything was rationed. It was the greyest place I'd ever been. As there was nothing else to buy, and it was cheap, I purchase a lifesized oil painting of V.I. Lenin and he became my roadside companion as I hitched back across Europe. All of which is beside the point, except to stress what a harsh background this group comes from.