Ed O'Brien says Radiohead are done with the album-tour cycle

Radiohead have given up the old round of album, tour, album, tour, Ed O'Brien says in Rolling Stone's Guest Hot List, where he names it his hot rock-star move. The less time you spend on the road, the more sane you are.¹ The band will tour when they want to, a month here and there instead of a circus on the scale of the OK Computer tour.

In the studio his pick is Logic, the recording software, which lets the band sample straight onto the computer and build loops with ease. His record is Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump. His book is Niall Griffiths's Grits, a bleak novel about people in West Wales who have dropped out of society, and his artist is Rachel Whiteread, for her casts of whole rooms down to the fireplace and the plug points.

His gripe is globalisation, with power handed from politicians to corporations. His place is Spain. It’s got a real sense of community that we’ve lost in England.¹