In Photos: St. Vincent + Cate Le Bon @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (10.11.11)

Annie Erin Clark – that's St. Vincent to you and me – has crafted one of 2011's more intriguing LPs in the form of September's multilayered Strange Mercy, and the Dallas-born songstress brought all of that record's abrasive allure with her when she kicked off her winter European tour recently at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall.

A highlight of the show came when Clark chose to raise the decibel level with a pounding cover of The Pop Group's seminal 1979 single 'She Is Beyond Good and Evil'. The recently-reformed band's frontman Mark Stewart got in touch with the singer via Twitter after seeing her performing the song on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon the other week, prompting an impromptu onstage freakout between the two that properly shook the rafters inside the normally-quite-sedate venue.

Welsh artist Cate Le Bon had earlier opened for Clark and her band, as she has done on all their recent live dates on both sides of The Atlantic; the sometime Boom Bip collaborator has a new album, entitled CYRK, coming out early in the new year. Tim Ferguson managed to snap some wonderful shots of both acts for us, and was even on hand to capture Mr. Stewart's snarling cameo. Check out a slideshow of his photos below.

St. Vincent returns to the capital in 2012 to play the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on February 27. She is also set to perform on the other side of The Irish Sea this coming Thursday (December 1) as part of the lineup for Other Voices 10, which will be filmed at various intimate locations in and around Dingle, Co. Kerry across five days and nights.