The thought of them making music together becomes all the more bizarre (and, frankly, alarming) when we're informed (OK, as a joke by Adam Buxton of Adam and Joe fame) that potential names for the fab combo might include Yorkie Fruit and Nut Bar and (gulp) Thomosexual.
Flea, however, is widely known for playing topless, sporting lots of tattoos, playing on songs with titles like Party On Your Pussy and parading over the Beatles' landmark zebra crossing at Abbey Road with a sock over his penis. Yorke is known for abstract outpourings of existential angst: thoughtful songs that take subtle sideswipes at Bush and Blair and the general rubbishness of human existence. But none of them invite such all-round bafflement and scratching of heads as the new 'supergroup' formed by Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist, Flea. Velvet-voiced soul singer David McAlmont is shortly releasing an album with composer Michael Nyman.
Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has joined forces first with American leftfield rockers Modest Mouse and now Wakefield indie shouters the Cribs. We seem to be entering an era of peculiar collaborations.