Radiohead on Danmarks Radio

Backstage with Danmarks Radio, with Jonny Greenwood beside him, Thom Yorke is asked whether they have ever played in a horse stable and says he has played a pigsty, with the pigs' mess still in it. A radiohead, Yorke explains, is a character in The Fisher King who shoots a yuppie in a restaurant after listening to a radio programme; otherwise it could be a soap powder.

“Black Star” comes from Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time and from sumo, where a black star is the bad mark on the scoresheet after a foul. The connection, they offer, is large bodies moving. Where do the lyrics come from? Mostly drugs, they joke.

Jonny, 22, wears a wrist support for an injury he says usually belongs to a 40-year-old typist. They played about 150 shows the year before, have done Europe, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong in the last three months, and went back on the road because the studio was getting boring. An EP is due in September and an album some weeks after, titles to come last. They play acoustic, “Black Star” and “Bulletproof” among them, though they are really only used to electric guitars.