When KT Tunstall played at Southampton Guildhall last Friday, friends and family of Winchester’s own Andy Burrows were much in evidence. 

Support act Andy kicked off the evening with his traditional opener, ‘Frank Mills’ (from the musical Hair). 

Coupled with his own song ‘Company’, it made for a striking and quite gripping opening.

Among his many talents, people often forget his fine, yearning voice. 

Burrows (now on drums), his musical partner Stu Wilkinson and Gorillaz bassist Seye Adelekan also make up KT Tunstall’s backing band. 

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Certain elements were against them – the venue’s famously capricious acoustics and a crass lighting set-up intent on blinding the audience, for example. 

None of this fazed the always-perky Tunstall, as she boldly worked through her entire new album NUT, interspersed with hits such as ‘Black Horse And The Cherry Tree’ and of course (as second encore) ‘Suddenly I See’. 

KT is the ultimate trouper, never delivering short change. And the next night, in Cambridge, a historic encounter took place between Winchester’s two most famous musical exports, Andy Burrows and Frank Turner. Astonishingly, the two were meeting for the very first time.