Colin Greenwood explains how his photo book follows the band's cycle

Colin Greenwood has arranged How to Disappear around the loop Radiohead's life runs in, he tells Marigold Warner of It's Nice That. Every three to five years it comes round again, and it has been his life for 30 years. You go into a room, work on a bunch of songs, record them, go on tour, and then you go home and have a cup of tea.¹

He took the pictures on film with a small Yashica. Charlotte Cotton, the curator and writer he calls a friend and mentor, put him in touch with an archivist, and he and the archivist went through hundreds of negatives. An old friend, the editor Nicholas Pearson, helped get the 136 pages into print.

While the band are making something there is little looking back, he says. Looking now at the book's first picture, a black-and-white shot of Thom Yorke playing guitar in the garden of their Oxfordshire studio, Greenwood notices a flightcase in the background, the sign of a tour to come. It's like a box of promises. In many ways, a record is a ticket to an adventure.¹