Toby Anstis: "First to a band who did crack the American market with their 1993 single, Creep. Ironically, Radiohead, who come from Oxford, found respect and success didn't follow automatically at home. In fact, Creep did get into the UK top ten, and the album it came from, Pablo Honey, also charted. But, now they have a second album, The Bends, which has been well recieved on both sides of the atlantic. Although in the States, Radiohead have had to work hard to prove that they are more than a one song band."

Toby: " I've come, here, to Vancouver in British Columbia, to hook up with the band who are at last slowly being recognized at home. Promoting a record in North America means visiting what seems like a million radio stations. Although radio is the way to sell records in north america..."

Colin in Background: "Hello, this is Colin from Radiohead and you are listening to Vancouvers real rock..."

Toby: "...the trouble is, you really don't get to see much of the place you are in. Now, Radiohead are in Canada, with a chance to tour the beautiful city of Vancouver."

Toby: "Johnny, Ed, Phil, good first impressions?"

Phil: "Well ya, we've been here a few times before but, I mean everytime we come back, you know, we're just really struck, its a really beautiful city, got loads of space here, its amazing, and the sea, its great to be by the sea again"

Toby: "Going back to the single of course in 1993, the one that everyone talks about when they hear Radiohead, they associate Radiohead with Creep..."

Ed: "Right"

Toby: "...and, perhaps people saw as sort of one hit wonders at the time"

Ed: "Creep was like the blessing and the bane of this band. Its a blessing that we got to tour throughout the world, and I think that that was fantastic. But it was also the bane that, you know, you have a song like that on your first album, and the history of bands having a hit like that on the first album is that they don't go anywhere, you know, and if it has been our third or fourth, it would have been fine. But the frustrating thing is that we always thought we, we knew we had the material, and um, while we were recording it, even last year we were sort of going out on tour and still sort of promoting Pablo Honey in like Mexico and Thailand and stuff like that. And always, it was always creep, and it was like, hang on a sec we've just, we're in the process of recording 22 new songs that we are, you know are really proud of."

Toby: "The striking video to the new single, Fake Plastic Trees, looks like it was made for the American market. It features the tortured lead vocals of Thom Yorke, who is desperate to rid Radiohead of the Creep label. And is at pains to point out the bands new album has moved them on."

Thom: "Its really good actually, because everyone, everyone sort of, the phrase, hey its a great album is catching on, all around the world, so um..."

Toby: "This is for The Bends? The new album"

Thom: " Ya, the new one, so um things are uh, very easy, people seem to be forgetting about that one song that we use to play...so ya...its nice to know" (To Wons: there was some stuff at the end I couldnt make out, thom and his ohs and ums haha)

Toby: "Well now we're at the top of the mountain, it was a nice ride. How did Radiohead... first start?"

Thom: "At school, of all places, you know just at school, the only cool place to hang out at school was the music school really."

Toby: "Was it true that it started On A Friday, that was the...."

Thom: "Ya"

Toby: "That was your first name"

Thom: "Ya, sorry about that, ya, that was a different era...we had to change it" *laughs*

Thom: "So we were doing these, we were doing these shows in Oxford, and apparently... you know people come and are like 'great band but they've got to change the name' in like every, every show we did.

Toby: "There was a headline in one of the newspapers back home which said um 'British pop unknowns storm the USA"

Thom: "It was in the evening standard"

Colin: "It was very unfortunate, because we had a really good following in the UK and obviously that's where we come from and it was really important to us. We just finished like a sell out tour last week, uh, finishing off at The Forum in London, which is amazing so..."

Thom: "It was very, it was, to do a sell out tour in Britain, and you know, the album came out and within two days everybody knew all the words to the, to the new songs. That's why we do this, it's wonderful"

Toby: "Really big in Canada are the massive woodcarvings of the original North American peoples, but, the band are keen to point out that their 'Big in America' label is little misleading."

Ed: "You know they blew it out of all proportion, we just like flew over there and did a few gigs and the record was on MTV it wasn't exactly, it was not like the days of the Beatles where you'd step off the plane and it's like 'hello america'. This is how its conceived and they get it totally wrong, its not like that at all."

Jonny: "I think it was polarized from us being extremely famous and big stars in america and utterly unknown in England and so you hover between the two really."