One day I was playing piano and I was like, I want to play with a viola player, but I want to play with someone young…I want to play with someone real. So I just went on Google, I was like yup, viola player, and Elliot Vaughan came up, and Elliot is in The End Tree, and he is a composer, just weird stuff, like, he was doing a ballet, then he’s doing this, and he’s like 26, and then I find on his site, ‘The End Tree’, and it was these three guys and they were making the most dissonant, beautiful noise, like Kronos Quartet, right? With a bit of Warren Ellis.

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That moment when you think someone’s talking about the writer Warren Ellis rather than the musician Warren Ellis and then you realise and it’s disappointing.