Chris Oday Enchanted the Ghosts at Highlands Festival

"I'm not good at putting feelings to words," he said before introducing "Gaia's Song," which is "another song about the same person," his partner. "It's a strange trait for a songwriter," Oday conceded, laughing at himself before starting the song. He forgot his own words mid-way through and had to begin again. The crowd cheered and applauded supportively. "I'm going to forget the words every time if you guys are like that," he said, before delivering a love song so beautiful, so worthy of being canonized, that it was impossible not to shed a tear.

It was equally impossible not to become enamoured of him, so charming and magnetic he was as he cracked jokes at his own expense and bantered with the audience, asking them about their favourite shows when he needed to tune up his guitar. "There are bees on stage," he said at one point. "So if I do any jerks, it's not an artistic choice." Watching him play, it felt like watching a lifelong friend achieve their dream. An expression of pride commingled with love stretched across the audience's face watching Chris Oday play his first festival. Afterwars, people searched for a wifi signal so they could follow him on Instagram.