Ed O'Brien on Pinkpop festival

Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway, at Pinkpop, are tired of hearing that Radiohead should make another guitar record, and answer with Woody Allen's line in Annie Hall about a relationship being like a shark that dies if it stops moving. Kid A reaching number one in America pleased them all the more for being the album they least expected it from. “I think you can have too much freedom, actually,” one of them says, and with no deadlines the Kid A sessions stood still for six or seven months. Last year's tent tour was not a stand against corporate rock, the two say, but one of many misconceptions about the band: they wanted to carry their own space around instead of playing arenas. People took it for a protest against corporate sponsorship, which was convenient, since it fitted how the band feel about sponsorship, but it wasn't the reason.