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AB: Hi, Adam Buxton here,

Thom: Hello.

Adam Buxton: How you doing?

Adam Buxton: What is your name

Thom: (grins)

Adam Buxton: Thom Yorke.

Thom: Yes.

Adam Buxton: You've just played at the Latitude Festival.

Thom: Yes.

Adam Buxton: First time at Latitude.

Thom: Yes.

Adam Buxton: And it was good, man, wasn't it?

Thom: Yes. I don't know, was it?

Adam Buxton: You said you were very nervous?

Thom: Yes, I couldn't really feel my hands for the first two songs.

Adam Buxton: Why were you so nervous, what did you think was going to happen…?

Thom: Well...

Adam Buxton: Bottles of wee?

Thom: No!

Adam Buxton: Right. So Thom...

Thom: Yeah, man.

Adam Buxton: I've got some ideas for you.

Thom: OK great.

Adam Buxton: You might like to consider like... these are names you could use if you were touring solo right?

Thom: Mmm, yeah, OK.

Adam Buxton: I want you to think about these and tell me how you feel Adam Buxtonout them.

Thom: [nervous laughter]

Adam Buxton: And you have to use one of them right?

Thom: [sniggering]

Adam Buxton: You can't just listen to these and go yea yea very funny got to go, you have to use one of them.

Thom: OK.

Adam Buxton: 'Cause Thom Yorke is fine and everything...

Thom: It's not that great.

Adam Buxton: But...you need to jazz it up that is what I'm saying.

Thom: And you're the man for the job of course.

Adam Buxton: I'm the man for the job, here we go... T. Homme.

Thom: [laughing]

Adam Buxton: Like T dot...

Thom: T homey, homey.

Adam Buxton: H O M M E.

Thom: Oh, as in French?

Adam Buxton: Exactly. T Homme.

Thom: That is kind of sophisticated.

Adam Buxton: It is kind of sophisticated, but also it is sort of street. T. Homme.

Thom: T...homosexual?

Adam Buxton: Well... funny you should say that. One of the other ones I had was Thomosexual. With the T H.

Thom: Is that a specific typepe of sexuality?

Adam Buxton: Exactly. Yeah, it is unique.

Thom: Well, it would be, yeah. [knowing smile and look into the distance].

Adam Buxton: It is un-categorisable...

Thom: Certainly it is.

Adam Buxton: It is a special type of sexuality that you have created.

Thom: I have, yes... don't we all.

Adam Buxton: Exactly. What do you think Thomosexual?

Thom: [clears throat] I could conceivably get into trouble with that.

Adam Buxton: I don't think so, I think people would like it.

Thom: Yeah.

Adam Buxton: How about this... The Thominator.

Thom: ...

Adam Buxton: That is obvious.

Thom: That is so bad.

Adam Buxton: Come on

Thom: Come on, it's just...

Adam Buxton: Alright. Thombola?

Thom: ...

Adam Buxton: That is the name for the show, in general, because it would like be a pick and mix people wouldn't know what they were going to get, you could maybe spin a wheel with songs on it and stuff Elvis Costello once did that..

Thom: He did do that. Yeah, yeah. That would be tricky, because we won't have that many and it won't be like a lucky dip, it would be like a bad lucky dip. An unlucky dip. No luck.

Adam Buxton: Yorkeminster.

Thom: Am I dying here?

Adam Buxton: Yorkeminster.

Thom: You are going to cut that out anyway... Yeah, yeah. Yorkminster OK. Erm let me think about that.

Adam Buxton: While you are thinking about that... The Duke of Yorke.

Thom: Yeah. I've never ever heard that one before.

Adam Buxton: Have you not...

Thom: That is wild.

Adam Buxton: Are you just winding me up?

Thom: Yeah. [laughing]

Adam Buxton: Ahh... you have heard that one! I can't believe it. It seems obvious doesn't it. I don't read the music papers

Thom: Oh was it in there? I was more thinking of my school friends.

Adam Buxton: How about this... Mr T.

Thom: Mr T [laughs] Yeah, on your good days, yeah.

Adam Buxton: I think that is a good...

Thom: Mr T. Well, I can see the jewellery element of it.

Adam Buxton: Yeah. T-Bot.

Thom: T-Bot. Yeah, T-Bot. But no-one will understand what that is.

Adam Buxton: You are giving me a hard time.

Thom: You are stretching it too far.

Adam Buxton: I really thought that Thombola was as far as I would need to go and then you would be saying - Thats the one! Don't worry it's going to be the Thombola Show

Thom: [laughing]

Adam Buxton: You spell it T-H-O-M-B-O-L-A. Thombola.

Thom: Yeah?

Adam Buxton: It is a different spelling.

Thom: OK? I mean, I do need a name, so obviously... I quite like... what have you got there.

Adam Buxton: T. Homme

Thom: T. Homme? Yorkeminster.

Adam Buxton: I had Yorkie Fruit and Nutbar. But then I wasn't reading that one out.

Thom: Yeah, I quite like that one.

Adam Buxton: Do you?

Thom: Yeah.

Adam Buxton: You are so perverse, that was the only one... I can't read that one out.

Thom: Thomosexual.

Adam Buxton: Thomosexual, I thought.

Thom: The perverse Yorkie Fruit and Nutbar. I can see that in big lights.

Adam Buxton: Alright. Thanks, man.

Thom: Yeah. Great.