Colin Greenwood

An interviewer asks Colin Greenwood why he always looks preoccupied on stage, as if writing a shopping list. There is a lot to think about, he says, such as not being hit by Jonny's guitar as he spins round, and Ed O'Brien coming over to shout at him in some macho bonding ritual he wants nothing to do with, while Phil Selway deafens him from the other side. He is trying to run away but has to stay rooted to the spot. A gig, for him, is like doing a crossword: you stand there and think about it very hard. He is not one for feet on the monitors or the bass as a weapon. His job is the low end, holding the thing together.