Homegame Festival, Anstruther and Crail, Fife

We spent a weekend in the wee fishing villages of Anstruther and Crail, in Fife. We were there for the Homegame music festival - a lo-fi series of intimate gigs in Churches, halls, Schools and the fishing museum.

This is Helen with her festival band on her wrist. Unlike the usual festivals spent in tents and portable toilets, we were in a hotel in Crail.

Weather was amazing. This is a 16th century doocot near the sea.

Isle of May.
Looking over to North Berwick, The Law.




We dandered around Anstruther (Anster to the locals) between gigs, peeking into antique shops and lunching in pubs.




Of course there was lots of music. This is Adem doing his folky thang.

A big cheese for this festival was KT Tunstall. Compared to some of the bands that shuffled on and plucked at instruments cautiously she blew everyone away with high energy levels and chat.


James Yorkston.
On the last day we went up to St Andrews for lunch.







Back in Anstruther for the low key finale.


We had gone to the festival principally to check out FOUND, my old school chum Gavin Sutherland's band. Gav and I were once in Amorphous Head at school, playing Pixies covers and his originals.

Unfortunately we didn't have the camera for their performance on the Friday night, but they were brilliant.

This was FOUND frontman Ziggy Campbell's solo spot on the last day in the fisheries museum. He has a great Hawick drawl and sly lyrics.

Two of FOUND joined him, but Gav was back in Edinburgh at work.


It was great to catch up with Gav's parents who had come through for the weekend. I hadn't seen them since I was about 17. That's his mum at the front enjoying Ziggy's performance.