19 September 2001 · radio
Thom Yorke on P3 Pop
Jonny Greenwood's “Idioteque” drum machine speeds up, slows down and drops out, and some nights the band end the song apologising.
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21 August 2001 · radio
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien on KROQ
A caller asks if Radiohead smoked a lot of weed making OK Computer; the reply is that it doesn't sound like a record made by pot smokers.
3 August 2001 · video
Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway
Does Thom Yorke get a sore neck from two hours of head-shaking? Those muscles have had a few years' practice, his bandmates explain.
11 July 2001 · magazine
Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway on Rolling Stone
Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway tell Rolling Stone about the touring they loved, like going to Australia, and what they try to recreate.
23 June 2001 · radio
Thom Yorke on 107.7 The End Seattle
Yorke doesn't fly unless he has to, so the tour has meant days on the bus from Houston to the Gorge in under a week.
20 June 2001 · TV
Radiohead on MTV
The odd spellings on Amnesiac's track list come from an old typewriter, a hurry and someone who never learned to type.
4 June 2001 · TV
Colin Greenwood on VPRO
Humphrey Lyttelton, the trumpeter on “Life in a Glasshouse”, plays Radiohead's Oxford park show as part of his 80th birthday celebrations.
June 2001 · video
Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway on Pinkpop festival
Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway say last year's tent tour was about carrying their own space around, not a stand against corporate rock.
30 May 2001 · radio
Radiohead on BBC Radio 1
Colin Greenwood wins the show's Wheel of Misfortune four to one, knowing that Geri Halliwell is a Leo.
29 May 2001 · radio
Radiohead on BBC Radio 1
A design student made Amnesiac artwork from one quote and from a film about a man who writes on his arm.
19 May 2001 · magazine
Thom Yorke on NME
The tape runs out halfway through Thom Yorke's first NME interview in five years, and he is delighted.
17 May 2001 · TV
Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway on BBC One
The band's online diaries let them keep in touch through two and a half years away making the records.
April 2001 · TV
Thom Yorke on MuchMusic
Asked why a rock and roll superhero always comes home, he says it is where he left things.
25 January 2001 · video
Radiohead on Spinner
“Pyramid Song” began when Thom Yorke saw Egyptian tomb art in a Copenhagen museum and went back to the piano.
20 January 2001 · radio
Jonny Greenwood and Colin Greenwood on BBC Radio 3
Serge Gainsbourg's Melody Nelson reached one of the Greenwoods through a friend at a Manchester record shop, and Nigel Godrich was hooked.