If I was ever kidnapped (by street toughs) and forced to construct my own ‘Darmok and Jalad’-style allegorical language, ‘KT Tunstall On Jools That One Time’ would probably be a lynchpin.
… just now learning that the performance was a last-minute booking for a song that she had just finished writing and wasn’t even on her current album at the time.
I think it may be too dense a reference to use in mere human language.
… she had never been on TV before.