Jonny Greenwood on SmartLess

SmartLess is a comedy podcast hosted by Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes, and one of them had once listed Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood among the guests he never expected to get. They arrive as surprise guests after a long preamble about other things, and the hosts, who are fans, ask fan questions.

The bands Yorke and Greenwood name as their reference points are the Pixies, New Order, Sonic Youth, Throwing Muses and R.E.M.

Greenwood traces his appetite for unusual instruments to classical music at home, through his father. He tells a story against himself about an adolescent fantasy built entirely around a music shop he was regularly driven past, and what might be inside it.