Phil Selway

Thom Yorke and Phil Selway on a Canadian music programme on Easter Sunday 1998, the day of Radiohead's show in Toronto and the night before Montreal, with their videos played between the talk. OK Computer is still collecting prizes, and Q's readers have voted it the best album ever made. Ed O'Brien had the best reaction, Yorke says. He went home and put on Revolver, which came second, and walked round the house saying “number two”, and his friends didn't see the joke. Polls like that are a daft way to fill ten pages and just make you uncomfortable. They know every sound on OK Computer to the point where it drives them insane, and a painter or a novelist, Yorke says, would move on instead of having to sell the thing for a year. The five of them work better as a unit now, with less fighting.

Yorke can't meditate; playing is when his head clears. A big show switches between the most amazing experience on earth and being in front of a mob, “which is utterly terrifying”, and the only bands he has seen do it well are R.E.M. and U2. The “No Surprises” video took two days of rehearsal with stunt people and was the most terrifying thing he has ever done. After one more week of touring they have four months off. Six years without a life, they ought to go and find one, or the music will be drivel; then again, all the songs might be about babies and good food. Neither of them feels understood. “God, no, I'm only 30,” says Selway, who is also sceptical about an afterlife.