Colin Greenwood on RTE Radio 1

Colin Greenwood talks to Sean Rocks on RTE's Arena about How to Disappear, his book of photographs of the band across 13 years, while he was on tour with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Photography is not a late hobby. He traces it to an old friend who played in the band at school and later worked at the Victoria and Albert, whose collection he used to go and look at.

The pictures start when they do because of a building. Once the band built their own studio around 2001 and began working there in 2003, they stayed in one place instead of moving between rented rooms and hotels, and the photographs came out of that. He shot film, which Rocks links to the vinyl in the studio.

For years, he remembers, the band rehearsed in Oxfordshire village halls and never let anybody in to watch. They hid their light under a bushel for a very long time, he says, and the village halls did nicely out of their shyness.