His last two albums, Songs In A+E and this year's Sweet Heart, Sweet Light have been mired in illness. Despite the title of the former, he'd actually finished the album before he contracted periorbital cellulitis and bilateral pneumonia. As a result, the weirdly prescient record was delayed while he was in intensive care and subsequently recuperated. Sweet Heart Sweet Light , however, was written and recorded while undergoing treatment for Hepatitis C, and as a result his relationship with the songs is one that puzzles him. After a summer full of festivals, it's now time to tour the album - although when we spoke at a restaurant around the corner from his home in East London he wasn't entirely sure what the shows would entail. At the time he thought it would be five or six songs from Sweet Heart, Sweet Light , but a message comes through from him days later saying he's changed his mind and he'll only be playing the album and three new songs no one has heard before. A day later, he goes back on it once more, saying he's changed his mind again. Jason says he eats at the restaurant where we meet at least three times a week, and sits at the same table each time; his back to the wall through paranoia he's "going to be stabbed in the back". Whether that's a metaphor for his take on interviews is another thing, but once he's moved from one side of the table