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Host: [speaking french] You're welcome!

Thom: Thank you very much

Host: You know alot of people don't know you yet here in Canada even though you are right now you are #1 on our top twenty here on MusiquePlus. You didn't know that?

[Laughter]

Host: Well you are, that's because ah we have played you alot weve actually most of us here we're all standing around here because we are excited to have you here. And the song that really introduced us to you was the song creep

Thom: uh-huh

Host: now creep is really a song that everyone can relate to because everybody has been a creep at somepoint in their lives, what is the creepiest thing you guys have ever done?

Thom: i don't know man, Colin what have you done? - NOTE: this is hard to hear and may not be correct

Jonny: well uh thats a very hard question um

Host: is it?

Thom: yeah

Jonny: well its strange a creep is not necessarily such a bad thing to be um ya know theres two sides to the song really it not just necessarirly about wanting to be so special its also just realizing where you belong i think so creep is not necessarily such a deroggatory thing, i think

Host: Ok no actually its not i think its a helpful to be a creep sometimes to kind of learn from your experiences is that what you were trying to do when you wrote this song?

Thom: it very much um ah a therapy thing yeah, i mean creep in english hasn't got the sorta signifigace its got over here anyways

Host: what does it mean in..

Thom: well i mean its not a deragoatory term in britain but its um it kind of mean ya know your a um ah a social outsider but it doesnt mean you're gunna be held up and molested or something like that

Jonny: yeah nothing nasty

Host: OK..speaks in french

Host: I was telling them that you you're about to sing a song that nobody knows about. where whats the story behind this song first of all

Thom: um well its um the image i had in my head when i wrote the song was ah from a book by a guy called ben ulchary when he talks about seeing a world child um a world spirit whos haunted by people who are trying to kill him off um trying to send him back to where he came from so he can't protect the human race it was a weird book and i loved it so much it was great

Host: haha ok... French... so the name of the song?

Thom: Three-headed Street Spirit

Host: Three-headed Street Spirit... French... Radiohead

[plays 'Three-headed Street Spirit']

Host: Woo, alright. that was absolutely fantastic, let me just move the mic just a little bit so you have some room to speak to me, that was fantastic!

Thom: thank you, it's a brand new song

Host: thats a brand brand new song so it that going to be on the next album?

Thom: yeah yup not anywhere at the moment hardly cuz we dont play it

Host: really so are you going to play that tonight at the show because i know alot of people are excited ah at home here so that you'll get that kind of a reaction because they become a little bit "Blau-se" <--(I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE SAYS) so ah its increadibly yeah fantastic. you gunna play it tonight?

Thom: it hasn't been played for the rest of the band yet

Host: hasn't been played

Thom: no, not really

Host: hasn't been rehearsed at all

Thom: MUMBLING?

Host: so this is like a major scoop alright! FRENCH So when do you think the second album will be coming out

Thom: sometime in the next year

Jonny: yeah hopefully

Host: french, no but i listened to the lyrics very very carefully because i'm not one to just listen to the medely i feel that when you listen to the lyrics you kknow a little bit more about the person writing them, and alot of i notice the lyrics are a little bit more about self doubt and not really know about whats going on well inside, you think success has made that even more apparent or has it helped at all

Thom: uh sometimes it actually makes it worse sometimes it makes it better, theres alot of hysteria in our lives now

Jonny: more extreme

Host: french Thank you very much, no more time left French... Radiohead, Stop Witching...

Thom: It's whispering whispering.

Host: stop whispering, radiohead!