The Pictish Trail perform live for Best Fit with a little help from Francois & the Atlas Mountains

In one of our more risky moves at this year’s End of the Road Festival, we figured a midnight Best Fit Session might be something of a giggle.

A certain Mr Johnny Lynch – better known as The Pictish Trail – volunteered and so a rendezvous was arranged and a location assigned (in front of our tent) along with thr requisite personnel to make it happen (99 percent of them merrily drunk from several pints of hot cider). With the only luminescence available that of our audiences collective torchlight, we pressed on with perhaps our most unorthodox session to date.

Johnny brought his friends Francois & the Atlas Mountains as well as Rozi Plain and some of Eagleowl as backup and we pressed on filming a beautifully choreographed rendition of ‘Not To Be’ while fighting the plummeting temperatures of a 1am September morning, the numbing effect of alcohol and a surfeit of infectious bonhomie that made it difficult to do anything but laugh.

The Pictish Trail play a show this Friday at the London Palladium ahead of the release of new album Secret Soundz Vol. 2 next month.

Tickets for the 2012 End of the Road Festival are now on-sale at £140 including camping.