How did you end up working with Vashti Bunyan on her first live performance in over 30 years?
I knew Just Another Diamond Day because I know the guys that run the label Spinney that did the first reissue—they gave me a copy when they did it. Then Steve Malkmus asked her to play at that concert (the “Down The Dustpipe” festival at London’s Royal Festival Hall in April 2003) and she agreed and then I heard she was looking for musicians—Steve Malkmus mentioned it to Domino or something and I just volunteered to do it and suddenly the whole job was kind of handed over to me! I got Adem to help me out. I’d never met her before, she just came around to Adem’s house for lunch and she was really, really nervous and she just picked up a guitar and just pretty much played all of the album there and it…it was amazing! Suddenly seeing someone who you didn’t know was still even involved in music performing their album and singing incredibly… Then she taught us how to play all the guitar parts and everything—though we only did three songs at that concert it was a huge thing for her. Then I
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