25 December 2011 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 5 Live
Radiohead toured for about six years without stopping, Ed O'Brien says, until their management came on the road and saw the burnout.
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14 December 2011 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC 6 Music
In the early days, he says, waiting a year and a half after an album for any new song always frustrated them.
13 December 2011 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 1
“Staircase”, the other new song from the From the Basement session, goes to 6 Music the next morning.
13 December 2011 · radio
Ed O'Brien on XFM
Thom Yorke's mix for Mary Anne Hobbs's programme is nearing 50,000 plays, and Ed O'Brien reckons Yorke will be well chuffed.
8 December 2011 · video
Thom Yorke on OccupyTV
As prime minister, says one of the two, Thom Yorke or 3D of Massive Attack, he would wonder how to keep the anger behind Occupy at bay.
4 November 2011 · video
Ed O'Brien on BFI
Stewart Lee agreed to narrate Anyone Can Play Guitar after Jon Spira got in to one of his gigs with a rare Incredible Hulk comic.
3 November 2011 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 1
Relearning “Subterranean Homesick Alien”, unplayed since 2003, for New York, Thom Yorke remarked that intros used to be good.
18 October 2011 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC 6 Music
The last tour felt to O'Brien like In Rainbows plus the greatest hits, and the next one will lean on the two newest records.
13 October 2011 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC 6 Music
Asked what a solo record of his would sound like, he wants a dirty, filthy R&B album played on real instruments, with no plug-ins.
13 October 2011 · radio
Phil Selway on XFM
He recently saw Other Lives at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford, the pub where Radiohead got signed.
10 October 2011 · radio
Colin Greenwood on BBC 6 Music
Thom Yorke DJs the launch of the remix album at the Boiler Room the following night, with Jamie xx and Caribou.
6 October 2011 · radio
Colin Greenwood on Domino Radio
The last record, Four Tet's “Pockets”, is the pick of Max, who has been holding his hand through the session.
6 October 2011 · video
Ed O'Brien and Thom Yorke
The King of Limbs started with software that let Radiohead trigger MP3s from a turntable, and five weeks of nobody knowing what they were doing.
23 September 2011 · radio
Phil Selway on WNYC Soundcheck
The Radiohead benchmark hangs over his solo work, Selway says, and that is no bad thing to have over your head.
20 September 2011 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 1
When Thom Yorke left college he worked in a shop that played Massive Attack's Blue Lines and the Brand New Heavies.
8 September 2011 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on Polskie Radio
Jonny Greenwood, a day from sharing a stage with Krzysztof Penderecki, admits he has borrowed some of the composer's ideas.
29 May 2011 · video
Phil Selway on AARUK
Philip Selway plays Truck Festival in July, close to his home in Oxfordshire.
4 May 2011 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC 6 Music
Even Richard Branson, he says, would find it very hard today to get the licences an online record shop needs.
16 April 2011 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 5
Colin Murray introduces him by blaming him for the rumour that “Separator”, The King of Limbs' last track, means a second part is coming.
13 April 2011 · radio
Ed O'Brien and Colin Greenwood on BBC 6 Music
In Dallas, the old man who ran Bill's Records once simply handed Colin a Joy Division box set.
4 March 2011 · video
Jonny Greenwood
For Norwegian Wood he wrote much of the guitar music as though he were a woman learning guitar after a breakdown, and found it easy.
22 January 2011 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 1
Flying Lotus did not get Burial's Untrue until he heard it driving through London in the rain.