Radiohead on Soundclash

In Japan, jet-lagged, the band go through the videos from The Bends. The first “High and Dry”, shot in Oxford, filmed friends and local fans watching them play; Thom Yorke reckons he weighed twice then what he does now. The American version blows up a car, which MTV disliked, and has a plot about bank robbers paid off with a bomb; one of them admits he never followed it. They agreed to come, eat and leave, and cannot agree whether they paid the bill.

Jake Scott, Ridley Scott's son, could not find the right supermarket for “Fake Plastic Trees” and built one overnight in an aircraft hangar. They love the colours, and point out that a Pulp video borrowed from their “Fake Plastic Trees” one, so theirs came first. The first thing they ask any director is whether the band have to be in it. Jamie Thraves, just out of film school, sent a script for “Just” that was nothing but the subtitles. For “Street Spirit” they went to Jonathan Glazer after his Massive Attack video, “Karmacoma”, and he shot it with a slow-motion camera from nature films. Their first videos were hopeless because they got involved, they say, and these work because they did not. A Michael Jackson video is almost a straight ripoff of “Street Spirit”, they add, and then ask for that bit to be taken out.