Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder paid tribute to his late friend Glen Hansard by busking at the Dublin street corner where Hansard began his career, hours after attending the Irish musician's funeral on 4 August. Hansard, who found fame with The Frames and The Swell Season and won an Oscar for the song "Falling Slowly", died on 29 July in a motorcycle crash aged 56. The impromptu performance, organised in the early hours of the morning with a small group of local musicians, was a fitting gesture given the strong personal bond the two singers had formed over more than a decade.

Vedder was joined on Grafton Street, where Hansard busked from the age of 13, by Irish musicians Tom and Felix Doran and Dylan Harcourt, with the session captured on camera by Scottish musician Murdo Mitchell and photographer Danny Clinch. He performed Pearl Jam's "Black" and Bruce Springsteen's "Drive All Night" using just one guitar with a broken string. Vedder and Hansard's friendship began in 2010 after a fan died at a Swell Season show, when Vedder rang Hansard daily for five days to offer support. Hansard's funeral at St Patrick's Cathedral drew tributes from figures including Bono, who performed a reworked version of U2's "Beautiful Day" and shared a voicemail from Patti Smith.