Radiohead

Channel [V] in Australia marks the band's first visit in six years with a short retrospective: “Creep” lifting them out of obscurity, the one-hit-wonder tag, two more albums, and OK Computer getting them called the saviours of contemporary music. Asked how they have evolved, they answer drily that it is on the records, and that live, the old and new songs become one thing rather than the series of statements an album can be.

Spliced in is an interview with Ed O'Brien from December 2000 about how Kid A was received. Typecasting is what they fear most, he says. Get known for quiet verses, loud choruses and a bit of misery and the instinct is to break it, and told they are an electronica band now, they would answer with a very good acoustic record.

They never wanted to be the biggest band in the world, he says, and people find that frustrating. He admires U2 and R.E.M. for wanting to conquer it, and places himself and the others as middle-class Englishmen attached to the indie idea that there is honour in selling fewer records.

The piece ends on Hail to the Thief being made fast, most of it in a fortnight, as a deliberate reaction to the two years that made Kid A and Amnesiac.