FULL NAME: Thomas
Edward Yorke.
BIRTH: October 7, 1968.
INSTRUMENT: Guitar, vocals, keyboards.
EDUCATION: Abingdon School; studied english and art at
Exeter University.
PREVIOUS JOBS: Played guitar in Exeter techno band
Flickernoise, worked as an ordely in a mental hospital.
KEY WORDS: Creative, guarded, sarky, moody,
hyperactive.
FAVE MUSIC: Past influences - Elvis Costello, Scott
Walker, Japan, R.E.M, Throwing Muses, Joy Division.
Current faves - P.J Harvey, Faust, Can, Prince Buster, DJ Shadow, Laika, The
Verve, Penderecki.
FAVE MOVIES/TV/BOOKS: "Arthur", "Married
with Children", anything with Joe Pesci or Dudley Moore, "The Medusa
Frequency", "A Night On Earth", Waiting For Godot".
LIKES: Love, hope, passion, articulation.
DISLIKES: You tell me.
INFLUENCES: Lack of sleep.
OTHER: During his first year at Exeter University he
sported a long coat and a trilby hat; Steptoe & The Bunnymen chic. Still
likes clothes. Changes his hairstyle more often and more radically than the
others. Writes the bulk of the songs which the band arranges and mutates. Drives
a Fiat Punto.
Other things about Thom:
- Thom likes Macintosh. He has
Apple stickers on some of his guitars.
- Once Thom smashed his guitars and trashed Phil's drumkit. Then he realized
what he did, and apologized to Phil by taking him and his family out to tea.
- Thom gets mad when people mosh at their concerts or when the press talks shit
about him.
- He also doesn't like it when Jonny breaks into his guitars and rewires them.
- When Thom started at his second school, Abingdon Boys School, (a private
school), his new mates gave him the nickname "Salamander" because of
his eye. He got into a fight with the guy who originated the name but that didnt
stop much.
- Thom met his girlfriend Rachel while attending university.
- Shopping makes him happy.
- He's been dying his hair since the age of 13. But now it's back to its
original color - brown.
- "He has the ability to make his eyes move completely independent from
each other".
Other band members said:
[Jonny] "He's very quiet. He can get tense very quickly. He's moody and
childish and aloof but he can also be very affectionate and friendly."
[Jonny] "If he has a day off he'll spend it shopping."
