December 2014 · radio
Phil Selway on XFM
His Manchester night on the February tour falls on Valentine's Day, which had not struck Philip Selway until the presenter said so.
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2014
21 November 2014 · video
Ed O'Brien on Fender
Ed O'Brien's Squier Strat, about £180 in 1986, played Pablo Honey and The Bends until the band's van was stolen with the gear in it.
20 November 2014 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on BBC Radio Oxford
When Ride came out, Jonny Greenwood remembers, the school playground talked of a band from Oxford at last.
9 November 2014 · radio
Phil Selway on BBC 6 Music
On Radiohead's 1998 tour their support band Spiritualized played a show of their own at the top of the World Trade Center.
November 2014 · video
Phil Selway on Echoes
The pulse under “Coming Up for Air” came from a Tempest drum machine, his stand-in for a plain click track.
20 October 2014 · radio
Phil Selway on Newstalk
So far Philip Selway's only Weatherhouse show has been a very small one at a film festival: two songs, played alone.
17 October 2014 · radio
Phil Selway on BBC 6 Music
Philip Selway's new toy is a Xylosynth, a controller laid out like a marimba that he hits with sticks to set off sounds and loops.
9 October 2014 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on BBC Radio 5 Live
Boiler Room will film one of Jonny Greenwood's classical concerts, so viewers can see players using two bows at once.
October 2014 · video
Jonny Greenwood on ACO
Jonny Greenwood built Water, his piece for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, round the tanpura, an Indian drone instrument.
October 2014 · video
Jonny Greenwood on Boiler Room
The room is another instrument, Jonny Greenwood says, and it changes which pieces he and the players choose to play.
September 2014 · video
Jonny Greenwood on Sam Stephenson
Eight players round two marimbas beat one man at a laptop making the same rhythms, he thinks, though it may be snobbery.
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31 July 2014 · video
Jonny Greenwood
For the oil gusher, Jonny Greenwood sat on the studio floor like a toddler at playgroup, hitting drums one at a time all day.
31 July 2014 · radio
Phil Selway on BBC 6 Music
His first single was the Police's “Message in a Bottle”, and he says he still hasn't mastered Stewart Copeland's way of playing.
3 July 2014 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on BBC 6 Music
The ondes Martenot, Jonny Greenwood says, sounds like the woman singing the Star Trek theme.
8 May 2014 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on BBC 6 Music
Paul Thomas Anderson sent him clips of big American skies to write to, then cut some of There Will Be Blood to the music.
11 March 2014 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on BBC Radio 2
Robert Ziegler told him the basses could play “Future Markets”, a cue in There Will Be Blood, twice as fast.
20 February 2014 · radio
Colin Greenwood on BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Three weeks earlier Greenwood put on a night at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford, and his favourite act was the opener, alone with a guitar.
1 February 2014 · radio
Colin Greenwood on BBC Radio Oxford
A card from Scott Walker, pencilled thanks for taking part in his Meltdown festival, has pride of place in Radiohead's studio.
27 January 2014 · radio
Colin Greenwood on BBC 6 Music
Radiohead's sound engineer Big Jim taped every show, and the band played the cassette back on the drive home down the M1.
27 January 2014 · radio
Colin Greenwood on BBC Radio Ulster
Mac, who booked On a Friday at the Jericho Tavern, was, Greenwood says, the first in Britain to book the White Stripes and the Strokes.
January 2014 · radio
Colin Greenwood on Monocle 24
When Radiohead started out, America's independent clubs were their passport to every town they visited.