Yo La Tengo, Seam: Borderline, London

"A FUNNY thing happened to us on the way to the gig." Whereupon Seam's Sooyoung Park demonstrates that the US/UK cultural gap still occasionally yawns as wide as the Atlantic by relating a perfectly unamusing anecdote concerning his band bumping into Prince Be on Oxford Street. Chastened by our embarrassed silence, he opts to introduce the next song. "It's called 'Pins And Needles' from our album Headsparks. Um, not really sure what to say about it."