Supporting R.E.M. in 1995, Thom Yorke met Michael Stipe, who told him he was a very big fan.

Before the first show, at Milton Keynes Bowl, Michael Stipe came in to say hello: “I'm a very big fan.” Yorke wrote in his Q tour diary that he was fighting for breath. In Oslo he played everyone a new song in a dressing room that was really a toilet: “No Surprises, Please”.