Yesterday Chris and I tootled down to London to see “once fey indie misfits” (© The Guardian) Belle & Sebastian at Somerset House.
Not your usual venue, Somerset House is where you normally go to hunt birth certificates or to say hello to those nice people at the Inland Revenue. The gig was in the central courtyard. By the magic of walking-down-the-side we wormed our way to the front and had a perfect view, much to our surprise. It meant that my camera phone could devote more than a pixel per person, at least. Had I thought we’d be that close to the stage I’d have taken my proper camera.
Avaragado’s rating: One cuckoo.
‘Fey’
Interesting slight-of-hand wordplay there. In English, fey means something like being fairy-like, something that could arguably be applied to their earlier work.
In Scots, it means “about to die soon” or something like that, if I remember my Burns.
I’ll get my anorak.