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Philip Selway shows 6 Music the house outside Cambridge where, aged two and a half, he played a toy drum at 3am.
7 February 2023 · BBC Radio 6 · Phil Selway
Philip Selway keeps an audio diary for 6 Music through a week of solo shows for Independent Venue Week's 10th anniversary. Norwich Arts Centre is in St Swithin's, a 14th-century church converted in the 80s, which had early shows from Nirvana and the Stone Roses. He last played the Cambridge Junction with Radiohead in October 1994. The venue reached its 30th anniversary in 2020 the day before lockdown, and spent what it had on keeping its staff.
On the way to the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge he stops in a village just outside Cambridge at the house where he was born on 23 May 1967. At two and a half he found a toy drum his godmother had left among the Christmas presents and played it at three in the morning, and the family kept him away from drums for over a decade. Being at the front of a stage again, with all the instrument changes, is still a lot to learn. The week ends at the Boiler Room in Guildford.
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- “(2023/02/07) BBC Radio 6 - Strange Dance & Independent Venue Week Interview - Philip Selway”, Unofficial Radiohead Interview Public Library, 16 February 2023
- “(2023/02/07) BBC Radio 6 - Independent Venue Week Interview - Philip Selway (Video)”, Unofficial Radiohead Interview Public Library, 7 February 2023