Tom York
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They need to do this.
And that's why people are on the streets.
That's why people are gluing themselves to buildings.
Because mainstream politics is too terrified to turn around and tell people things are going to have to change and you're not going to like it.
Let's go to music.
It's your seventh disc.
Why have you chosen this one?
Sidney Bechet.
I came late to Sidney Bechet.
The man was a total lunatic.
But I also realised that my mother, she was really into trad jazz when she was also an art student.
But I found something about Sidney Bechet that I didn't find anywhere else in jazz.
The way he plays, it's incredibly sexy to me.
This song is so sexual and so... What's the word?
There's an elation in the way the band are playing.
Sidney Bechet, just this performance, the way he plays, the way it sings, the way it opens up.
I went through a phase of DJing quite a lot.
I'm not speaking to people, but still being in a room.
Oh, I know.