Radiohead World Service prints the band's unused March tour diaries

The second issue of Radiohead World Service, the fanzine Paul and Mike edit from Trimley St Mary near Ipswich, prints the diary pages each of the five wrote on the March tour for a national daily that never used them. Jonny Greenwood's comes from Sheffield, the day after The Bends came out. He spent the afternoon in HMV's easy-listening section, watching shoppers try the album on a listening post, until a fan asked whether he was Jonny from Radiohead. He was holding two Manhattan Transfer albums as cover.

In Truro, Phil Selway heard the promoter tell security to look after any “surfers”, the stage-divers passed back over the crowd. Afterwards security said it was a shame his mates had missed the gig, and supposed the waves at Newquay had kept them away.

Colin Greenwood was back at Chipping Norton Studios, where they made Pablo Honey, recording “India Rubber” as a B-side for “Fake Plastic Trees”. He calls the result a cross between Barry White and Dinosaur Jr. They ate under gold discs by the Bay City Rollers, Barbara Dickson and themselves.

Ed O'Brien went looking for a pool in Wolverhampton on release day, ended up on a flume among children, and got a light for his first cigarette from an 11-year-old called Darren.

In Aberdeen, Jonny brought Thom Yorke the NME's 9/10 review. Radio 4 had asked Yorke to comment on the disappearance of the Manic Street Preachers' Richey Edwards. He wrote about 60 words on it and struck them all out.

Nothing I write expresses how riled I am about even being asked

Thom Yorke¹

The issue also prints Radio 1's interview with Yorke and O'Brien at the Milton Keynes Bowl on 30 July, R.E.M.'s second night there. O'Brien had watched R.E.M. support U2 at the same Bowl ten years earlier, a bit drunk, and came back announcing, Yorke says, that they would do it one day.

Yorke tells Radio 1 about the free May Day show in Rome, played to about half a million people with seven million watching on Italian television. The band played only “The Bends” and “High and Dry”. Yorke drank a whole bottle of wine afterwards to calm down, though Elvis Costello, on the same bill, was more scared than he was.

The band closed MTV's Most Wanted in Camden on 18 August, with Carly Simon's Bond theme “Nobody Does It Better”, one of Yorke's favourites. It is the first performance of the song in the site's records.

Beside a reprint of the band's first interview), from Oxford's Curfew in 1991, the fanzine runs one a student magazine never printed. Simon Jaworski did it at the Lomax in Liverpool on 10 February, the night of a secret fan-club show. O'Brien says the “our day will come” line in the band's press releases was his, said to the NME's John Harris before “Creep” came out. Selway says John Leckie cured the band's fear of the studio.

Before this album we had a real studio phobia and we'd get paralysis every time the little red light would come on.

Philip Selway¹

The diary pages, March 1995