the interview desk

2020

8 November 2020 · video

Ed O'Brien on Beneath The Stream

Ed O'Brien read Walt Whitman aloud on walks by the Wye, three days after rewatching Dead Poets Society with his wife.

Still from (2020/10/24) Festa del Cinema di Roma - Event Interview Snippet - Thom Yorke (Video)

24 October 2020 · video

Thom Yorke on Festa del Cinema di Roma

The book of Close Encounters made up a synthesiser borrowed from Stevie Wonder, and at eight Thom Yorke wanted one that talked to aliens.

Still from (2020/10/24) Rai Movies - Festa del Cinema di Roma Interview - Thom Yorke (Video)

24 October 2020 · TV

Thom Yorke on Rai Movies

In front of a camera, even for Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke is extremely nervous, because it is not what he was born to do.

Still from (2020/08/26) Tape Notes - Earth Interview - EOB [Ed O'Brien & Flood]

26 August 2020 · video

Ed O'Brien on Tape Notes

Flood offered to produce Ed O'Brien's album after one of Ed's demos came up at random on his iTunes and he didn't know what it was.

Still from (2020/07/19) Adam Buxton Podcast - Earth Interview - Ed O'Brien [EOB]

19 July 2020 · podcast

Ed O'Brien on Adam Buxton Podcast

Mike Massimino, the astronaut who fixed the Hubble telescope, took his daughter's In Rainbows into space and showed Ed O'Brien the photo.

Still from (2020/06/25) BBC Radio 6 - Glastonbury Interview - Ed O'Brien [EOB]

25 June 2020 · radio

Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 6

Ed O'Brien's father, 79, went quiet for a week after OK Computer, then left a very drunken message on his answerphone with the verdict.

Still from (2020/04/29) CityNews - COVID and Earth Interview - Ed O'Brien [EOB] (Video)

29 April 2020 · video

Ed O'Brien on CityNews

Ed O'Brien used to tell Thom Yorke, no pressure, that a song is 80 per cent the vocal, and now the vocal is his.

Still from INTERVIEW: Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) in depth with John Robb

27 April 2020 · video

Ed O'Brien on JOHN ROBB

“Brasil” puts Wales and Brazil in one song, opening Welsh and acoustic in five-four and turning into carnival trance, Ed O'Brien explains.

23 April 2020 · video

Ed O'Brien

Ed O'Brien met Flood at the school gates in 2013, where their wives were campaigning together for better school dinners.

21 April 2020 · radio

Ed O'Brien on ABC.AU (Double J)

Around In Rainbows, Ed O'Brien toyed with leaving Radiohead to train in five elements acupuncture.

Still from (2020/04/17) KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic - Earth Interview - Ed O'Brien [EOB]

17 April 2020 · radio

Ed O'Brien on KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic

Ed O'Brien's year out was to be a drive from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, until he and his wife pictured the children bored in a camper van.

Still from (2020/04/17) Sopitas - Earth Interview - Ed O'Brien [EOB] (Video)

17 April 2020 · video

Ed O'Brien on Sopitas

Singing lead was the hardest part of Earth for Ed O'Brien, because the truth of a song lives in the vocal.

Still from (2020/04/16) Beats 1 - Behind the Boards Interview - Nigel Godrich

16 April 2020 · radio

Nigel Godrich on Beats 1

Nigel Godrich looks back on more than 20 years of records in Behind the Boards, his 18-song playlist for Apple Music.

15 April 2020 · video

Ed O'Brien

Ed O'Brien's wish list came from watching Daft Punk at the Grammys, and their manager said Omar Hakim and Nathan East would be up for it.

8 March 2020 · radio

Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 6 Music Festival

The Sheffield singer Richard Hawley told Ed O'Brien it might be four yards from stage centre to stage right, but it feels more like 400.

March 2020 · video

Stanley Donwood

Stanley Donwood's first go at The King of Limbs was oil portraits of the band after Gerhard Richter, and every one came out brown.

Still from (2020/02/20) Alt 92.3 - Earth Interview - Ed O'Brien [EOB] (Video)

20 February 2020 · video

Ed O'Brien on Alt 92.3

After Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood brought in “Weird Fishes”, Ed O'Brien played it eight times in a row on the drive to London.

February 2020 · video

Ed O'Brien

Ed O'Brien told Radiohead fans on tour he was making an existential dance record, and says it was only slightly flippant.

24 January 2020 · radio

Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 6

Radiohead watched Jimmy Smith at Dingwalls give a young saxophonist grief, though the lad played beautifully, just not Smith's way.

Still from (2020/01/20) BBC Radio 6 - Radiohead Public Library Interview - Colin Greenwood

20 January 2020 · radio

Colin Greenwood on BBC Radio 6

Colin Greenwood stayed up watching Radiohead's Glastonbury sets of 1997, 2003 and 2017 back to back, and found it quite intense.

Still from (2020/01/06) BBC Radio 6 - Independent Venue Interview - Philip Selway (Video)

6 January 2020 · radio

Phil Selway on BBC Radio 6

Promoters make small venues their life for little reward, Phil Selway says, and they keep so many of Radiohead's old rooms open.

Still from ARTE Interviews Isaac Wood and Tyler Hyde from Black Country, New Road, Ed O'Brien and Kim Gordon.

2020 · TV

Ed O'Brien on ARTE

Sonic Youth with Pavement at Brixton Academy in 1992 felt almost religious to Ed O'Brien, and here he tells Kim Gordon so.

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