Philip Selway plays Kirkcaldy for James Yorkston's Fife series

Philip Selway played an hour of his solo songs at the Adam Smith Theatre in Kirkcaldy on 25 November, singing at the piano and the guitar with the cellist Laura Moody beside him. The Scotsman has the review. The night was part of Tae Sup Wi' a Fifer, the series James Yorkston curates in Fife. Introducing him, Yorkston recalled his old band supporting the young Radiohead at the Subway in Edinburgh. Selway had his wallet stolen that night and still remembers it, Yorkston said, and he hoped this gig paid enough for a new one.

The set drew on Familial, Weatherhouse and his score for Polly Steele's film Let Me Go. From Weatherhouse came “Ghosts” and “Turning It Inside Out”, and he sang “Let It Go” at the piano. Between songs he talked, plainly star-struck, about playing with Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band in New York ten days before.

The week before, Selway told the Courier that he read the screenplay of Let Me Go as a warning about war crimes being made to seem normal. It's a timely warning really especially when you see the rise of right wing extremism and a timely reminder of where that can lead.¹

The paper also asked him about the band's show in Tel Aviv in July, played despite calls for a cultural boycott of Israel. Music and politics, he said, are at their most powerful when they come from the heart. I think we see music as a place to open up the dialogue (about Israel) rather than close it down¹