The night we (accidentally) competed with Taylor Swift.

Our Edinburgh debut will forever be remembered as the night we played at Bannerman’s Bar — completely unaware that Taylor Swift was holding a surprise concert in the city on the very same evening.

Of course, there was no way we were going to win a crowd against Taylor.
In the end, only two of Kayo’s friends made it through the Swift chaos, and the rest of the night turned into something unexpected but heart-warming:

A small, intimate gathering where we and our friends The Root Notes & Banshee Heathens listened to each other’s music, shared stories, and laughed about our spectacularly unlucky timing.

Despite the tiny audience, the night had its own charm.
All of us squeezed into one car, driving from Dundee to Edinburgh together — nerves, excitement, jokes, and snacks — the kind of road-trip memory that sticks far longer than a packed venue ever could.

Our official Edinburgh debut may not have gone as planned,
but it became one of those “only once in a lifetime” stories that we’ll always laugh about.

And next time…
maybe we’ll try not to schedule a gig on the same night as one of the biggest pop stars on the planet.