Tom York

Anyway.

You couldn't be without it.

How did your parents react to that?

They were pretty tolerant, actually.

I've got to be fair.

Especially when I got, like, my big amp and then the amp was above the TV room.

And my dad would come up and say, I literally cannot hear the television.

At the time, I'm like, go away, I'm doing my thing, man.

But it's like, yeah, you know what, fair enough.

They would, you know, take me along to gigs when I had gigs, but I was really very, very determined to do what I did.

You know, there's a few times when they said, you can't do something this weekend, and I would just go AWOL and report back sheepishly on a Sunday because I was going to do a concert, and that was that.

It's time for your fourth disc.

Tell us about this one.

This is Squarepusher and Aphex Twin, Freeman Hardy and Willis Acid.

I chose this because this was one of those pivotal musical moments in one's life.

When I had just been on tour for too long, at the end of this massive cycle of endlessly, endlessly, endlessly playing the same songs, being in a band, playing with guitars...

And I'm driving through the night down to Cornwall and John Peel is on and he, in his dour manner, announces this track.

And I'm driving quite fast down country lanes.

Halfway through, something happens in this track.

It's like I'm having a seizure or something, you know.