23 December 2008 · video
Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway on TV3
Ed O'Brien saw a newly bearded Liam Finn two days earlier and took him for Eddie Vedder, who couldn't make it.
the interview desk
2008
15 August 2008 · TV
Colin Greenwood on MTV Canada
Where a stop on the tour means fans driving out of town, he says, they take the compromise.
1 August 2008 · radio
Ed O'Brien on 93.1 XRT
Ed O'Brien kept the In Rainbows release plan from friends and family for three months last summer, and told only his wife.
June 2008 · video
Ed O'Brien and Thom Yorke on The 11th Hour
After OK Computer the label researched who to sell it to next, and Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made the study into artwork.
May 2008 · radio
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 1
In their last two weeks in America the band looked at one another and agreed they are the luckiest people doing this.
30 April 2008 · TV
Thom Yorke on MTV
Normally, he says, sweatshop labour is something he only gets to talk about with people considered extreme left wing.
1 April 2008 · radio
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien on Radio 2
Jonny Greenwood and either Thom Yorke or Ed O'Brien once took David Byrne out to dinner in New York, reckoning they owed him.
1 April 2008 · radio
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 2
Thom Yorke brought his own copy of Portishead's unreleased album to play “The Rip”, having checked first that the band were happy about it.
1 April 2008 · radio
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien on BBC 6 Music
Thom Yorke thinks Portishead's new album is their best record, and his favourite song on it is “The Rip”.
1 April 2008 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 1
Jonathan Ross has asked Radiohead to do Eurovision; one of them thinks interest ended when they said they would only do it if they won.
27 February 2008 · video
Thom Yorke on FM4
Writing a few letters and meeting his own MP, he says, would at least be a novelty.
14 February 2008 · radio
Thom Yorke on NPR
In Rainbows went out as lighter MP3s partly so the download would not blow the band's server apart.
3 February 2008 · video
Ed O'Brien on Strombo Show
With Radiohead off EMI, the label plans a greatest hits for April and May, and O'Brien says the band will do no promotion for the record.
31 January 2008 · radio
Ed O'Brien on WRFF Radio 104.5
Thom Yorke is a pretty mean drummer, O'Brien says, and Jonny Greenwood likes to try.
27 January 2008 · video
Thom Yorke on BBC
At the Bridge School, Neil Young watched nearly the whole of every act's set from the side, and Thom Yorke saw the others terrified.
26 January 2008 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 2
Yorke reckons people paid about four pounds on average for the In Rainbows download, and calls them very kind.
24 January 2008 · radio
Colin Greenwood on BBC Radio 2
A soprano in the BBC Symphony Chorus writes in to say she met Colin at the Barbican on Sunday, hearing Samuel West narrate Judith Weir.
24 January 2008 · radio
Colin Greenwood on BBC 6 Music
Colin Greenwood skipped his ATP festival DJ set for seven new Portishead songs; if the record is as good, it's his best of the year so far.
20 January 2008 · video
Ed O'Brien on 89xradio
TBD, the fledgling independent label putting In Rainbows out in America, has a number one album with its first proper release.
17 January 2008 · radio
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 1
Taking over Zane Lowe's show, Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien have a list of records to tick off and expect to fight when time runs out.
11 January 2008 · radio
Ed O'Brien on FM 94/9
In Rainbows went out online because the management proposed it; they first wanted a download and a box set only, with no CD.
11 January 2008 · radio
Ed O'Brien on KROQ
KROQ's own staff paid for the download and never got it, after the CBS Radio spam filter blocked the emails.
3 January 2008 · radio
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien on XFM
“Jigsaw Falling into Place” is eleven o'clock on a Friday night in a pub, Thom Yorke or Ed O'Brien says, just before it turns nasty.
2 January 2008 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 4 Today
Eight, nearly nine, of the songs on In Rainbows had been played live before the record came out.