Thom: “I bet you thought, ‘Oh, he’s at it again…’ (laughs). It certainly gets very dark in the middle, yeah – with ‘Skip Divided’, which is about complete disconnection.”

Q: “That song sounds like someone having serious problems in their inter-personal relationships. Is it autobiographical? Or do these words just appear out of your mouth?”

Thom: “It’s always both – he said, being nice and evasive. You always take things from what’s happening to you and whatever psychic garbage that’s lodged in your head.”

Thom: “Yeah…that’s one of my favourite noises,

John: “It worked really well, I had to really take a double take when I was looking through the glass, to see exactly what you were doing… it sounds so great, it’s almost metronomic, your hand beats!

Thom: “Thank you!

John: “Years of tapping on tables, from school through to….

Thom: “It goes like this!

John: “It sounds great, is that one of the love songs that you referred to earlier on?

Thom: “Yeah, um, kind of, it’s a bit messed up for that. It sounds like it’s more of a love song than it really is. It’s actually a song about, it’s more about the dislocation than anything else to me, when I sing it I have this, I always have the image of slick black oil.

John: “That’s what you were thinking about when you were performing it?

Thom: “Yeah, that and sex…

John: “Interesting combination?

Thom: “Yeah…

(Plays Skip Divided)

Bob: “Laughs… They did a great job… How’d they go about doing that? Did they approach you, did you take…

Thom: “I Um no I sent the elements through… uh, that track gets progressively more strange… it starts out fairly normal like that and it just gets more alarming…