Radiohead on Maida Vale Studios

After Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood play an acoustic set at Maida Vale, the band take questions from the room and from listeners' emails. They had done about four of these shows that year and still treat them as a novelty. Bringing back “Bulletproof” was for fun, like the covers, among them Neil Young's “On the Beach”, played without the solo and with the audience supplying it.

They did work with Merce Cunningham. His company made its dance without hearing their music, they were not supposed to watch, though nobody had told them, and they watched anyway. Advice to their 1991 selves is not to release “Pop Is Dead”, and never to drink before a show, after vodka shots in Pittsburgh. Asked about Radio 1 daytime no longer playing them, and whether it frustrates them, they say everything they do is aimed at the mainstream and the high street, and that one of the hardest things that year was hearing people treat Hail to the Thief as hard work.

Yorke's Grammy, shared with Stanley Donwood for the Amnesiac artwork, came in the daytime half of the ceremony, shortly after September 11, with snipers everywhere. Drunk on vodka and Coca-Cola, he and Donwood got up speechless, then tried to slip past the press, took a wrong turn and nearly got thrown out for picking a fight with security. Finishing Hail to the Thief, two weeks in Los Angeles, was a bad patch for one of the band. One of them had told a Dublin crowd he was stepping out of the music business for a while, because it is so peculiar at the moment. For Christmas one of them wants a PlayStation, and Grand Theft Auto, and is warned that if he gets stuck into that, nobody will get a record for six years.