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Cat’s Eyes gatecrash Buckingham Palace to perform new single
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 6 April 2016
Good publicity stunts are quite hard to pull off these days, but this one from Cat’s Eyes – aka Rachel Zeffira and Faris Badwan – is pretty good. The duo apparently managed to perform a song from their new album live in Buckingham Palace last month, under the guise of performers of renaissance-era music.
The duo joined a group of musicians who were booked to perform at a private art talk put on at the Palace for a foreign ambassador. The group was hired to perform the songs heard as chimes on the Pittenweem clock, which sits in the Queen’s Gallery. They seemingly did that too, but rounded off the event with a version of a Cat’s Eye song, ‘We’ll Be Waiting’, taken from their forthcoming new album ‘Treasure House’.
The duo pulled off a similar stunt in 2011, performing one of their own songs at the Vatican. So this is now officially “a thing”. ‘Treasure House’ is out on 3 Jun. Oh, and you can attend the same talk on the Pittenweem clock at Buckingham Palace (minus the musical gatecrashers) on 13 Apr.
Watch the performance here:
