Phil Selway on Newstalk

Tom Dunne asks Philip Selway on Newstalk what happens when Radiohead stop, and the answer is that they “walked off in different directions at the airport and that was it”. A good year of touring ended in 2012 with things in a healthy place; everyone had projects, and they had been away from home a long time. After a year and a half apart they have just started making music together again. Dunne remembers Joe Strummer telling him the Clash would have lasted for ever if someone had sent them on holiday.

Selway started on a record of his own in his late 30s, with 40 coming up as the push, after 20 years of working only with the others. Weatherhouse was made from January 2013 with Adem Ilhan and Quinta, both from his live band for Familial, his first solo album, at Radiohead's studio outside Oxford, a secure place to take risks. Dunne, a singer himself, teases him about drummers hiding behind their kits. Selway says a wrong foot behind the drums is the loudest thing on stage, but out front far more of you is on show. “I'm nervous going into everything that I do really.” So far the only Weatherhouse show has been a very small one at a film festival, two songs on his own; the live side is still being worked up.

Dunne's last note says Selway left Radiohead in the early 90s and moved to Ireland for a girl. “You've been reading Wikipedia, haven't you?” Selway never left.