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Playing classical guitar again over Zoom, Colin Greenwood finds, is more nerve-racking than 60,000 people at Glastonbury.
22 January 2021 · BBC Radio 4 · Colin Greenwood
Colin Greenwood talks to Martha Kearney for Radio 4's Today the week Glastonbury was cancelled again, with around 1,000 festivals and 170,000 jobs in doubt for want of cancellation insurance. It is the one festival, he says, where you can see none of the bands and have the most incredible time. From the stage there might be 50,000 or 60,000 people in front of you and as many again in the dance tents and the healing fields.
Radiohead plan a tour six to nine months ahead, and he wants the government to plan now rather than leave everything to the last minute, as it seemed to with the fisheries. The band's crew have been with them since 1991 or 1992 and are family. Locked down in south Oxfordshire, he has gone back to the classical guitar he gave up for the electric bass, which meant cutting his fingernails. Playing it over Zoom, he says, is more nerve-racking than 60,000 people at Glastonbury.
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- “(2021/01/22) BBC Radio 4 - Glastonbury Interview - Colin Greenwood”, Unofficial Radiohead Interview Public Library, 23 January 2021