Radiohead on Le Réservoir

Another upload of the Paris television interview with Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien about Hail to the Thief.

The instruction they gave themselves was to work quickly, not think about it too much and play the way they had been playing live, which Yorke says was new for them. Nigel Godrich pushed for Los Angeles. Yorke's first response was to ask what it would cost, though the room itself won him over, and there they worked for a fortnight at a track a day, which they had never done before.

He resists the reading that this was a deliberate return to something more direct after Kid A and Amnesiac. It came out that way because it was put together faster and by another method, chasing a performance rather than editing without end.

After one take he ran into the control room to ask how long it was, heard it was nearly six minutes and decided on the spot to lose two of them, because the whole record was being held to the short songs he grew up on.

Nor is it about one American president, he says. What it describes is far more widespread than that.