Colin Greenwood on Adam Buxton Podcast

Adam Buxton's introduction to Colin Greenwood doubles as a potted history of the band: the school years at Abingdon, who was in which year, the original name taken from the day they rehearsed, a 1991 Melody Maker review that was positive about everything except that name, and the change after they signed to EMI. The conversation was recorded in April 2025.

Buxton is as interested in Greenwood the photographer and reader as in the bass player, and asks what a music journalist would skip. Much of it circles round how five people stay in a room together for decades. They are respectful of each other, Greenwood says, they listen, and they are kind, and he says it as if it were nothing unusual.

Asked whether he has ever written a song, he says flatly that he has not, though he works on arrangements and writes the parts he plays.