Phil Selway on Dave Fanning on 2FM

On the Road, the documentary Phil Selway fronted, was filmed over two years across British independent venues, with contributions from Nick Mason, Idles, Fatboy Slim and Nadine Shah.

When Dave Fanning suggests that before they were signed Radiohead were essentially a pub band, Selway corrects him downwards. They were not even that, having barely played at all, with most of their few shows at one venue in Oxford.

That room gave them belief more than experience, he says. Bands whose records they owned had played there, and standing on the same small stage made the next step seem possible.

Fanning pushes him on the ladder of venues, and Selway agrees there is one, each rung feeling like a real advance. Asked whether he remembers filming the video for “Creep” at the larger Oxford venue in 1992, he does, and treats it as exactly that sort of step up.