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Thom Yorke says Noel Gallagher “needs to read some books”
first posted on Treefingers by Miro · rewritten for the archive
The “There There” video took four days to film in 50 Acre Wood outside Bristol and two weeks to animate, the band tell the Telegraph Magazine in an interview published on 17 May. Chris Hopewell directed it from a brief that asked for something between the Brothers Grimm and the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer. Thom Yorke's summary is that it is Bagpuss.
Colin Greenwood says the artwork for Hail to the Thief is built from the five colours used on American road signs, plus black and white.
The record is all fluorescent, opaque sounds, like road signs: clear, coming at you out of the darkness.
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Yorke describes the gloaming as the feeling of sliding back into a dark age, with right-wing bigotry, stupidity, fear and ignorance on the rise. Told that Noel Gallagher had called protest a waste of time, he paused and smiled before he answered.
He needs to read some books.
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