Colin Greenwood on Monocle 24

Colin Greenwood comes into Monocle 24 for Independent Venue Week and talks mostly about Oxford's Jericho Tavern, where the band played their first gig, as On a Friday, on a bill with two other bands that were really one band under two names. The promoter, who did the sound as well, was Mac, and it was Mac who gave them their break. He once broke the nose of a musician from Birdland for trashing the gear, booked Pulp, Primal Scream, Giant Sand and Jonathan Richman, and was the first in Oxford to put on the White Stripes and the Strokes. When A&R men from record labels came to see the band in the summer of 1991, he made them all pay, and the band played his birthday party with a Hooked on Classics medley in his honour.

Nobody has put in a lift for carrying amplifiers up the back stairs, and a mural of the band and Supergrass by the top room has gone. “Thank God someone's painted it over,” Greenwood says. When Radiohead started out, the independent clubs in America were their passport to every town they visited. What matters most to him is turning up for a night out without knowing what you will see, in a world arranged by “Google sponsored algorithms and predictive clicking”, and that brings him, to the presenter's surprise, to Donald Rumsfeld on unknowns.