Tom York

I didn't want to sing originally.

We used to go to a friend's house who had a very, very tolerant mum who let us play for hours, just make terrible noise, and no one else would sing.

I want to go back a little bit.

I mean, you did have quite a tough time when you were little.

You had eye surgery when you were really young.

Tell me about that.

I mean, it was probably tough when I was born.

The left eye was shut.

There was no muscles that would open it.

So they, this was in the 70s, where they take a bit of muscle from elsewhere, in my case, my arse,

and they graft it on to make it work.

But it's quite a tricky operation.

I won't go into the details, but it's pretty blech.

And this was an initial operation when I was just about old enough to deal with it.

And I woke up, my mum said, and I said, Mum, Mummy, Mummy, what's I got?

What's I got?

Because I couldn't understand what was going on, you know.

And then I went for like three or four operations after that.

You know, people go through this stuff.

It's not a big drama.