Colin Greenwood on VPRO

Colin Greenwood squeezes into VPRO's tiny studio at Pinkpop on the day Amnesiac comes out in the Netherlands, just off a bus from Germany. The tour has run north from Bilbao to Verona through Roman arenas and old bull rings, and it is “all culminating in England with like bad food and bad weather”. Tonight's set leans on OK Computer, the last record the Dutch seemed to like, because at a festival “we don't want to be like contrary bastards”. He doesn't think the band have changed direction any more than they did between any two records. The special edition of Amnesiac is a book with a library card inside, as if the songs were a book nobody knew had been written.

Asked about Dutch music, he can only offer Amsterdam, where Magazine and Joy Division played, though he is too young to have been there. Glastonbury is his favourite festival, and with foot and mouth about, it is probably as well it is off this year. America comes next, the Gorge and Red Rocks, then the band's own show in an Oxford park on 7 July before about 40,000, with Beck and Supergrass on the bill, and Humphrey Lyttelton, the trumpeter on “Life in a Glasshouse”, playing a set of New Orleans jazz as part of his 80th birthday celebrations. His favourites to play live are “Morning Bell”, for the bass line, “The National Anthem”, and “Idioteque”, because he gets a keyboard.