Thom Yorke on Eurockéennes de Belfort

Thom Yorke talks to French television at the Eurockéennes de Belfort, with a French voiceover over much of it. He likes the line-up and the way the bill has been put together, Ellen Allien included, and the last two nights were good ones, where they could hear what they were doing and it swung.

Radiohead had been involved in something like it in New York, an anti-corporate festival with the Beastie Boys, Underworld and plenty of others up for it. “I have to be careful with my words here,” he says. It never happened as a festival, because people who felt threatened by the idea didn't want it to. It ended up as a stadium show and the promoters lost money. France, he thinks, has a tolerance for this that England lacks.