Sarah Lowndes

I remember talking to Beefheart one time and he said ‘how’s your band going?’ and I said ‘not democratic’ and he said ‘oh, that’s bad’.

There’s this great description in David Toop’s Ocean of Sound (1995) of an early AMM performance where he sort of describes you all being on stage, ‘men are aimlessly busy or busily aimless’, he says, ‘standing there looking around I can realise that no-one else in the audience realises this is a performance.

you can think a lot of things at the same time, you can live while playing music which I think is one of the most interesting things about performance so there is some part of one’s mind