DJ: "Now you're backstage with us guys, have you ever played in a horse stable before?

Thom: "I played in a pigsty which is almost the same thing and the shit was still there so...

DJ: "Jonny, I've heard that Thom really rocks; he broke his toe on stage kicking his guitar.

Jonny: "Yeah but it sounded good do that's the main thing.

DJ: "You have a lot of different things I've heard you're hard to define and compare Radiohead with anything, Thom, was is a Radiohead?

Thom: "What is a Radiohead? Well, a radio head is a character in 'The Fisher King' that goes in and shots a yuppie in a restaurant after listening to a radio programme, that is a Radio head. Uh... Radiohead generally I don't know, it could be a soap powder really.

DJ: "How would you describe yourself, Jonny?

Jonny: "Uh..same as everyone else only a little bit different... um.. we're English, aren't we? Yes.

DJ: "How about we start with some music, what are you gonna play for us? Can you introduce it yourself?

Thom: "Uh... which one should we do first, Jon?

Jonny: "Street Spirit... .uh... Bulletproof?

Thom: "No let's do the other one first.

Jonny: "Okay.

Thom: "Which is... what's it called? Oh yeah 'Black Star'.

DJ: "You're not good with names, Thom, are you?

Thom: "No or words actually I have to force myself to learn them.

[Play 'Black Star']

Thom: "Thanks.

DJ: "So tell me about the song where does it come from, Jonny?

Jonny: "Which song?

DJ: "The song you just did.

Jonny: "It's infleneced by two things. One being a book by someone called Stephen Hawking called 'A Brief History of Time' and also in the sport of Sumo wrestling a black star is a bad mark put on a score sheet when a wrestler commits a foul.

DJ: "Okay that's two different themes here.

Thom: "Oh they connect though definitely.

Jonny: "Large bodies moving.

DJ: "Where does the magic, when it happens, where does it come from? Who does your lyrics?

Thom: "Mostly drugs.

DJ: "So that's how it happens? [laughs]

Jonny: "Lennon speaks to him...

DJ: "That's where you learn about Sumo wrestling and everything...

Thom: "Yes, Lennon speaks in my dreams.

DJ: "And the next morning you'd have a song ready, huh?

Jonny: "Imogene is one of his.

Thom: "Imogene? Is that one of mine?

Jonny: "Yeah.

Thom: "Alright. I'll get the publishing for that.

DJ: "I won't really believe you when you say you're not good with words, your lyrics seem to be a lot of words in them . Would you mind... .would it be possibly to do an older song from Pablo Honey.

Thom: "Ah! That one...

Jonny: "What should we do?

Thom: "What? From Pablo Honey?

Jonny: "'Thinking About You'?

Thom: "Yeah.

DJ: "Since we're jumping over 'Creep' here... .

Thom: "Uh... how does it go?

[Play 'Thinking About You']

Jonny: "I realized I didn't know that, like one chord in.

DJ: "Jonny, I'm noticing your wearing wrist support, too much guitar lately? You have a bandage on your guitar hand.

Jonny: "Yes, I have an injury that usually 40 year old typist get but I have and I'm 22 so there you go...

DJ: "Because of Radiohead?

Jonny: "Yes, too much typing.

DJ: "How are you doing touring these days, I mean, are you doing a lot gigs?

Thom: "We have been yeah...

Jonny: "We did about 150 last year and about the same this year possibly... probably bit less more recording this year.

Thom: "We've been recording and we kind of felt like going back on the road because being in the studio is getting boring. We've been out in the road for 3 months, I don't know, we've done Europe, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong everywhere basically expect America.

DJ: "Where is the most fun to be?

Jonny: "Most fun to be? Umm...

Thom: "At home actually.

Jonny: "Japan's nice, Boulder, Colorado was nice, it varies from city to city not country to country. Copenhagen was quite fun last year as I seem to remember.

DJ: "Now you're here at Roskilde pretty close to Norway, do you know if you'll be coming there?

Thom: "It's supposed to be cold down there.

DJ: "No it's summer there, it's the same temperature here, you could come you would survive I'm sure.

Thom: "It's winter down in New Zealand, we've just been there, that was pretty weird.

DJ: "You're new recording material, when will it be out in a record?

Jonny: "There'll be an EP in September and then an album some weeks later.

DJ: "Any titles or anything you can reveal to us?

Thom: "No, again the words have been a problem.

DJ: "Titles come last?

Thom: "Titles definitely come last...

DJ: "Okay

Thom: "Or first, it depends.

DJ: "From this EP, is there a song that's possible to perform here now?

Jonny: "We might have done one off them, we don't know yet.

Thom: "We're not really quite sure what is gonna be.

DJ: "Any old ones? Can you do one more song, do you think so?

Jonny: "Old ones... oh crikey. It's very hard for us, we’re only really used to electric guitars it's quite a challenge. A nice challenge.

Thom: "Challenge is one way of putting it.

Jonny: "Umm... crikey... Bulletproof?

Thom: "Yeah we could do a new actually just to annoy you.

DJ: "A new song? Not previously recorded?

Thom: "No this is one that's gonna be on the new album, hopefully. This is a song called Bulletproof.

[Play 'Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was']

Thom: "You can tell we just made that one up, can't you?