The tradition of cloth-capped buskers goes back a long way in Warsaw, and the best loved of the lot have been commemorated in the heart of Praga. The pre-war Kapela Podwórkowa (The Courtyard Band) are a bit of a local legend in these parts, and now the five piece band have been honoured with a noisy monument sculpted by Andrzej Renes. Send a text (SMS) message to tel. 7141 with the text KAPELA, then pick a number between 1 and 100 (the list of 100 songs to choose from is on the side of the brass drum); that’s the signal for hidden speakers to burst forth with pre-war and patriotic classics made famous by these local heroes. However, recent visits to the statue have shown the buskers to be temperamental, and texts did not always result in a song being played.