Tom York
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because I wanted to figure out whether I was completely insane, whether I really wanted to be a musician or not.
I just did a bunch of dead end jobs and made a demo tape.
Working in a shop, would that be one of the dead-end jobs?
Debenhams.
I sold suits.
That was one of the jobs.
Were you good at that?
Well, what do you think?
No, I think no.
My first fatal flaw was being brutally honest.
My second fatal flaw was that the old boy I worked with was an amazing guy.
And these old boys would come in and they'd try on these brown suits and they were all brown and tweedy and whatever and
None of them fit right.
Me and this lovely old man would say, I'm sorry, that really doesn't look very good.
And then they would leave.
And then I got called up to the manager's office.