Have you noticed how everyone’s doing their end-of-decade lists right now? Strikes us that 2010 is just around the corner, so rather than dwelling on 00s charts (we’ll do that later), we thought we would look ahead to one of the first big releases of the Teens, the 2010s, the Tennies, whatever - the new decade.

So here’s Guillemots frontman Fyfe Dangerfield, who’s taking a sabbatical from his arch-pop band to release a solo album, Fly Yellow Moon, in mid-January. What’s he doing now that he can’t achieve with his day-job colleagues? Well, he laid on a lunchtime showcase last week so the lucky few could find out, and what they discovered was a robust set of impassioned tunes, delivered with feeling and sincerity – in short, the stuff of Guillemots.

He was a warm, funny, gangly presence at Kettner’s, dithering with his white wine and whistling abysmally – knowlingly so; “I’ll keep going!” – during the touching Livewire. Rather undermined the loving regret of the lyric, sure, but confirmed that everyone was on-side. In the absence of fellow Guillemots, there was a comely string quartet adding suitable weight to the assured numbers and sounding quite lovely on the piano-led Barricades and quiet roar of first tune of the afternoon, Faster Than The Setting Sun.

The final two songs were the laptop-beats-driven (“I’m rather overlooked as a programmer”) belter Any Direction and the single She Needs Me – an epic in true Guillemots style. Perhaps he doesn’t need to change tack entirely for a solo record; perhaps he thought the others would ruin these songs; perhaps they’re too personal. Whatever the reasons for the different branding, it’s the usual wild romance from our man Dangerfield.