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Phil Selway on BBC Radio 6
Phil Selway announces a road trip to independent venues, the one that became a documentary. The plan is a different venue every day for the whole week, meeting the people who run them, the people who go to them and the artists passing through. His reasons are personal more than campaigning. These are the rooms Radiohead played in the early 1990s, and the rooms he returned to when he started performing his own material, and he wanted to get inside that process again.
For the documentary he wanted an empty seat beside him in the tour bus, so that anyone watching would feel they were coming along instead of being shown something.
Shaun Keaveny and Matt Everitt make him recite the itinerary, which defeats him about halfway through. It takes in Sheffield, Leeds and Halifax and finishes in Bury, where he is looking forward to seeing Richard Hawley play.
22 January 2019 · BBC Radio 6 · Phil Selway
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