CHIRRUPING CAN BE heard at the other end of the line. Not birdsong as such, more short, sharp, high-pitched tweets that proliferate the air, making it sound as though Tom Ridley from Poisonous Birds is calling from inside an aviary. Given the ongoing pandemic, the last thing we need now is a flock of toxic birds.
“Thom Yorke has learned to be so expressive. I take a lot of inspiration from that.”
“I had to look it up to see if there were any poisonous birds and there is one in Papua New Guinea,” he says, “but I don’t think they’re in Bristol so it’s okay.”