the interview desk

2025

14 November 2025 · video

Jonny Greenwood's cello, Steven Bennett, has three strings, and on One Battle After Another it was mostly hit rather than played.

5 September 2025 · podcast

A bass teacher in Brixton stopped Colin Greenwood to praise his line on “The National Anthem”, and Colin had to say Thom Yorke wrote it.

6 June 2025 · video

Colin Greenwood remembers John Leckie, who produced The Bends, saying that making a record is like taking a photograph.

13 March 2025 · video

The strings on “Fake Plastic Trees” were flown back from John Leckie's multitrack into an American mix that had cut them.

20 February 2025 · video

Ed O'Brien tells a room in Brazil that the second lockdown was when the ghosts of his childhood caught up with him.

make this page better