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Phil Selway shrugs off the Mercury snub for The King of Limbs
The King of Limbs is not on the Barclaycard Mercury Prize shortlist, the first Radiohead album to miss it since Kid A in 2000, Uncut reports. The band have never won. Phil Selway, the band's drummer, says it is no great disappointment, and repeats what he said of the album in May.
It would sound churlish to say we don’t care. But when we were putting out ‘The King Of Limbs’ we knew it probably wasn’t our most immediate record.
Making it that way mattered to the band, he says, and it was never put out with a nomination in mind.
He denies that Radiohead plan to play Glastonbury in 2013, though the band wrote on Dead Air Space, their blog that they could not wait to play it again.
Michael Eavis, Glastonbury's organiser, has said the festival may have only three years left. Selway calls that an enormous shame. There is a fallow year next year, he says, and another planned for the year after, but he would be surprised if that were the end.
Maybe it’s like when they said they’d take Heinz salad cream off the market and then didn’t, just to get people’s interest up, or [BBC] 6 Music.
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