31 December 2003 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 4
Thom Yorke has long been obsessed with Today, and while making Hail to the Thief he was up with his son and the programme every morning.
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2003
26 December 2003 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on BBC 6 Music
Jonny Greenwood loves one jazz record so much he went looking for a second copy for his dad, and has yet to find another like it.
24 December 2003 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC 6 Music
Felix da Housecat's record, heard at Beck's house, is the number one Thom Yorke says should have been everywhere.
23 December 2003 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC 6 Music
Ed O'Brien and his girlfriend are about to have their first child, he tells Craig Charles between records.
22 December 2003 · radio
Phil Selway and Colin Greenwood on BBC 6 Music
Radiohead no longer play “High and Dry”, so Jamie Cullum's cover at least earns them some royalties, one of them says.
8 December 2003 · video
Radiohead on Maida Vale Studios
Drunk on vodka and Coca-Cola, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood went up for a Grammy for the Amnesiac artwork and could not say a word.
21 November 2003 · radio
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 1
Letterman keeps his studio at sub-zero temperatures so he won't sweat, they explain, and on their recent visit their hands went numb.
6 November 2003 · radio
Phil Selway on BBC Radio 4
With three boys under five and a busy touring year, he has stepped back from the phones for now.
23 October 2003 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on BBC Radio 4
“Convergence” plays under the film's fighting because he couldn't think how melodies could hold that footage together.
30 September 2003 · TV
Thom Yorke on E!
The new songs have a positive energy because the band are enjoying playing together, which he calls a new thing for them.
29 September 2003 · radio
Radiohead on KROQ
Told David Bowie has called them the greatest band in the world, and asked for theirs, they say they are not really into bands.
12 August 2003 · radio
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on WBCN
Radiohead will try tuning their stage radio to WBCN tomorrow night, while the station is broadcasting the show.
1 August 2003 · video
Colin Greenwood and Thom Yorke on Summer Sonic
Radiohead used to be known as Rainyhead, but this summer their audiences have needed sunblock instead of sou'westers.
28 July 2003 · video
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on Launch
When Radiohead started, a company paid to keep them on tour for two years, and without it they would never have left Oxford.
15 July 2003 · radio
Thom Yorke on K-ROCK
A phone call meant to announce two nights at Madison Square Garden, which neither side quite manages
10 July 2003 · TV
Thom Yorke on VIVA
Why he loved the record, then hated it, and why he can no longer listen to it
5 July 2003 · video
Radiohead on Montreux Jazz festival
Glastonbury laid the ghost of a 1997 set none of them enjoyed, and Michael Eavis, who runs it, let them camp on his lawn in a teepee.
3 July 2003 · TV
Radiohead on Arte
Thom Yorke always wanted to call a Radiohead record The Best Driving Music in the World Ever, but somebody else got there first.
28 June 2003 · radio
Colin Greenwood on BBC 6 Music
A run of shows in Belgium and Germany had them in a groove by the time they reached Glastonbury.
26 June 2003 · radio
Radiohead on KCRW
In two weeks of recording in Los Angeles they took two evenings off, and spent one Sunday of it in the desert.
22 June 2003 · radio
Jonny Greenwood
Asked to describe Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood says they are sort of a rock band, a bit like Buddy Holly.
11 June 2003 · TV
Jonny Greenwood on VPRO
“Motion Picture Soundtrack” was ten years old by the time it went on Amnesiac, Jonny Greenwood says.
9 June 2003 · video
Colin Greenwood on CuttingInterviews.com
The words on the Hail to the Thief cover are signs Stanley Donwood saw in West Hollywood, Colin Greenwood says.
9 June 2003 · radio
Radiohead on BBC Radio 1
Radiohead did a track a day for Hail to the Thief at Ocean Way in Los Angeles, the studio where Sinatra and Nat King Cole recorded.
7 June 2003 · video
Radiohead on BBC London
Radiohead's first London show, as they remember it, was a pay-to-play night at the Rock Garden in 1988, with eight in the band.
6 June 2003 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC 6 Music
Yorke, who sang with Björk before making the record, calls her a fantastic musician and totally terrifying.
3 June 2003 · radio
Thom Yorke on RTÉ 2fm
The next record, he thinks, may get made over the course of touring this one, and might sound nothing like it.
3 June 2003 · radio
Thom Yorke on XFM
The subtitle of “Sail to the Moon” comes from the children's programme Bagpuss, Yorke remembers halfway through saying he cannot place it.
2 June 2003 · TV
Radiohead on MusiquePlus
Radiohead drove hired Minis in formation down Sunset Boulevard like The Italian Job, until someone called one of them Austin Powers.
June 2003 · TV
Radiohead on France 2
Singing with Björk and PJ Harvey is what made Thom Yorke feel better about a voice he had come to dislike.
June 2003 · TV
Thom Yorke on MuchMusic
When the band play, Yorke says, the waves of emotion come from somebody up there, not from him.
31 May 2003 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 2
Jonathan Ross admits he has sung “Fake Plastic Trees” from a lyric sheet while his wife learned it on guitar.
29 May 2003 · video
Radiohead on BBC One
Jonathan Ross found Radiohead only through Clueless, and took them for some sort of happy-go-lucky American band.
29 May 2003 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC Front Row
Thom Yorke talks to Front Row about Hail to the Thief, out on 9 June, and the children's story thread that runs through it.
28 May 2003 · radio
Radiohead on BBC Radio 1
Asked why Radiohead stopped making videos and then started again, they say they never stopped; the videos just weren't shown.
28 May 2003 · radio
Radiohead on XFM
Phil Selway ran his marathon the year Paula Radcliffe first did, and came in after her, he says.
25 May 2003 · TV
Radiohead on MTV
In Los Angeles, someone took the band's roadside-style posters for auditions to find new pop stars.
April 2003 · video
Radiohead on Hail to the Thief interview CD
“Where I End and You Begin” started on a cheap sequencer during a three-day Land Rover trip through the Negev desert.
April 2003 · TV
Thom Yorke on MTV (Germany) 'Spin
Asked for his favourite Radiohead video, Thom Yorke still picks “Karma Police”, and MTV Germany play it to close the show.
2003 · video
Jonny Greenwood on Toazted.com
“We Suck Young Blood” is cheesy on purpose, Jonny Greenwood says: frightening and a bit funny at once, like Nosferatu.
2003 · video
Radiohead on Le Réservoir
Told a take ran five minutes 50, one of them cut two minutes on the spot, having found every Beatles song was short.
2003 · video
Thom Yorke on Eurockéennes de Belfort
A New York festival with the Beastie Boys signed up fell through, Thom Yorke says, because some people felt threatened by the idea.
2003 · TV
Thom Yorke on MusiquePlus
Asked recently whether he was clinically depressed, Thom Yorke said yes, because it was more interesting and what the journalist wanted anyway.