Steve: "It’s Radiohead in the house or rather bassist Colin Greenwood’s house. I’ve just walked upstairs from the living room where we’re actually broadcasting from by the fire and the flight casts and upstairs there’s a little room with... I can see a computer and loads of keyboards actually two sets of keyboards and a bit of piano vibe [strums on piano] can’t play, so there’s a piano there and then there’s vinyl and CDs. Of course what’s the first thing you do when you go around any pop star’s house? You have a look a his CD collection just to check first is this in alphabetical order? Yes it is, it starts with “B“... Jacques Brel, The Boo Radleys some Jeff Buckley and... so many David Bowie records. I would say about 14 Bowie records there and as we move along more CDs... and I think that’s a picture a Nigel Godrich and I think that’s a picture of the rest of the band all wearing shades. On the wall there’s a poster that appears to be for a gig by ‘On a Friday’, so pre-Radiohead and I’m not sure what year this is but it says “Tonight Club Avocado: Live music at The Jericho Tavern, Wolton Street” Monday 4th August. The first band on was “The Yellowy Blue Roof Men” what ever happened to them and mystery group in the middle and then On a Friday headlining. Uh... there’s a bit of... Thom Yorke... come over here, tell us about this gig. He’s run away... Colin... he’s run away too... come in guys. So this is something you’ve had framed, is this a very early gig?

Colin: "Yeah, that was like the first gig we’ve ever did in 1986, ‘87...

Steve: "Your first ever gig?

Colin: "Yeah, pretty much .

Steve: "Do you remember anything about The Blue Roof Men or The Yellowy Blue Roof Men?

Colin: "Well they were all the same band they just kept changing their name we didn’t realise, we thought it was three bands but in fact it was just the same group and we were there... it was us and them. I sort of coloured half of it in which was a bit of mistake.

Steve: "What do you remember about the first ever On a Friday gig then?

Colin: "I did like four cans of Fosters beforehand I was a bit nervous but it was great yeah, The Jericho Tavern in Oxford and I just remember it being very loud and very dark so it hasn’t changed much, has it?

Steve: "Were you all very scared before you went on ?

Colin: "Yeah, very nervous... well I was rather excited I had a few beers.

Steve: "Now listen will you take us on a bit of a tour down to your... you’ve got kind of a fire pit thing going on...

Colin: "Yeah...

Steve: "I’ll tell you what we’ll play record and come back to you, we’ll play a couple of tunes actually we’ll meet you downstairs and have a bit of wandering around in the garden, that’s cool?

[Music plays]

Steve: "Now you’ve just got back from New York, what did you buy? That’s what we wanna know... we’ve done all the gigs with Colin but did you buy anything when you were out there?

Ed: "Yeah... but I’m not gonna say because it’s for my girlfriend and she’s here tonight.

Steve: "Oh bless! Alright.

Ed: "We won’t go there.

Steve: "So you didn’t buy bits of kit, did you? Because when I was out with Coldplay, Guy is collecting old microphones and I just had it in my head. If anyone else is buying old microphones or bits of kit it’ll be The ‘Head.

Jonny: "No... disappointed, I bought some old t-shirts pretty much... so yes $6 each but they’re great.

Steve: "Ok, we better get on to the album because we haven’t really talked about it so far tonight. Does it feel more real because it’s out today... does it suddenly become... because it’s in in shops I can see copies, is it exciting now?

Ed: "It’s a relief because the last 12 weeks [laughs] a lot of people had heard it and it hasn’t been out in the shops. So it feels like a long time seen we’ve finished it that’s always the thing now when you make a record it takes 3 months for completion, we finished it at the beginning of March .So yeah is kind of the limbo land, cause we’re not touring yet so we haven’t gotten into the rhythm of that and we had this... the last two weeks have been full on... we’ve been on the campaign trail...

Steve: "Like the great politicians you are...

Ed: "Yes... uh... no it’s... to be perfectly honest it feels bloody weird [laughs]

Steve: "When you listen back to the album though or particularly when the album get out in the shops, is it getting a set of holiday snaps back thinking well I remember that and I remember this and everything?

Jonny: "Uh...

Steve: "Someone’s taking a glass over there, I think someone’s going to make a speech... I’m sorry go on.

Jonny: "I don’t know what’s weirder as Ed says it’s like a three month pause it’s like the old days of letter-writing where you had to wait three months before anything you know reached a different country and it’s a bit like that. You remember writing it and meaning a lot to you but it’s a long time ago, you know, to let go of something but finally it’s reaching people.

Steve: "What was the atmosphere like in the studio this time around?

Ed: "It was great, it was really great. The fact the we’ve recorded in L.A. speaks volumes really cause I don’t think... I mean Nigel wanted to get us out there for ages cause he did two records out there and he did the Travis record out there. He said you’ve gotta come to Ocean Way its got a great room, it’s very traditional, it’s a studio from the 50’s, Nat King Cole had recorded there, Dean Martin, Sinatra, We Are The World from the 80’s you know. So it’s got an amazing pedigree and we were doing a track a day so we weren’t thinking about to much which is always a good thing for us...

Steve: "This is something I was going to ask though because surely in the past, a lot of the reason why some of the stuff had worked is because one or more of you in the band always tries to sabotage the song .

Ed: "Jonny ... [laughs]

Jonny: "Naming no names like mine... um... well that’s sort of...

Steve: "Mr. Yorke is not innocent either.

Ed: [laughs]

Jonny: "No... [laughs ] he has to fiddle I know. That all went on behind closed door in a rehearsal room and happened much quicker as a result so yeah we were still fiddling as you can probably tell.

Steve: "What is it that makes you want to get away from the mainstream pop song, is it still a reaction to Creep?

Ed: "No, not at all I don’t think it’s that at all, you know I think there’s a lot to be said and I think we’re great fans of really great pop music. In many ways I still think its bit of a pop record, but pop has changed in the last 10 years. When we were listening to pop in the 80’s and 70’s it was... maybe a bit more interesting maybe I’m sounding like an old fart but you know, The Beatles wrote pop songs and in the 70’s there was some great pop even the 80’s there was great pop. I don’t know... we’re not anti-pop but a lot of people have got lazy in the way that people write songs, you see the charts and half of it is immemorable.

Steve: "Pop music should, you know, evolve we still judge it by what we judge it by 20 years ago almost...

Ed: "Yeah...

Steve: "Whereas if pop music had moved on and on then you’d be quite mainstream, do you know what I mean?

Ed: "Well, yeah... I mean is it Westlife who’ve got the most number ones ever I think or something like that? but you know I’m not trying to diss them or anything but I couldn’t even hum one of their songs and the fact that the whole thing you get a single the goes to number one for one week and it comes out... it’s like well... does anyone take it seriously cause the record companies don’t. [laughs]

Steve: "Ok, we’ll come back to that point later. Pick a track from the album cause we’ve got loads of questions piling up, in fact let’s do one very quickly before we play a track from the record. This is from John C. Jonny, you often look nervous are you concentrating of are you very scared?

Jonny: "Uh... it’s both together I’ve got loads of toys on the stage when I’m playing and it’s just a good reason to keep your head down and keep busy and you know, a nice surprise to look up and see everyone watching us play at the end of the gig... and you know it’s one of those... everyone in the room has gone quite to listen to this [laughter ensues]. Which for some reason is far more embarrassing then the thought of people... people I know listening is far worse then strangers listening...

Steve: "I thought Thom was going to heckle there, but he’s actually on his way to the gents...

Jonny: "Yes I really am this vacuous during interviews everybody.

Steve: "That’s why I thought you might be buying new instruments cause you’ve must’ve run out of instruments to play onstage I’m sure the Shepherd’s Bush gig ... you’ve now got so many bits .

Jonny: "Um... yeah... I don’t know... I just got conscious of the fact that I seem to be buying new instruments to hide the fact that there was still lots of things I could with the ones I already had in a way or I was wasting them. There’s an electronic instrument the ondes Martenot which is a great instrument and it’s not a gimmick and I kind of decided to take that a bit more seriously.

Steve: "Okay...

Jonny: "So yeah...

Steve: "We’re gonna play a track from the album I think this is Ed’s choice which would be Wolf at the Door.

Ed: "Yeah

Steve: "Why pick this one? It’s actually one of my favourites.

Ed: "This was the one ... we recorded it on the Kid A sessions but it never sort of happened really and this is the best ... it’s an example of a song we caught it ..probably the best version we’ve ever done of that song and um... we recorded it in L.A.

Steve: "And just as I start it, how many versions were there?

Jonny: "I suppose about 3 or 4...

Ed: "Yeah

Steve: "Not bad quite quick for you.

Ed: [laughs]

Jonny: "There was like a heavy metal one a bit like The Darkness.

Steve: "Ok, more question for Jonny and Ed from Radiohead keep your e-mails coming.

[Wolf at the Door plays]]

Steve: "There’s the band, there’s a whole host of friends, the management wandering around just in case we get out of line and here’s something which has come in via the e-mail, this is one from Maquiladora, ‘What was the guy on the floor in Just video on about?’

Ed: "Oh blimely years ago... umm... what was it?

Jonny: "I can’t remember.

Ed: "I think somebody learnt it at deaf school obviously worked out what he was saying, But I think Jamie Thraves the director kept us well and truly in the dark about it .

Steve: "Ok, this one hasn’t got a name on it but it says ‘Please explain the strange effect in Go to Sleep’.

Jonny: "Uh...

Steve: "Now you’re looking very puzzled

Jonny: "Um... yeah okay we’re starting to play with computers and write software for them that does things like that so we’re still using computers but we’re getting rid of other peoples’ programs in a way and building really wonky kind of broken pieces of software like that one that makes that noise and then crashes the computer... it’s fun yeah we’re into it.

Steve: "I think this has come from the chat room, ‘How old were you when you played your first gig?’ Do you remember, we were talking about it early on because there’s a poster of it upstairs.

Jonny: "Umm... 15..

Ed: "17..16

Jonny: "Yeah...

Ed: "17

Steve: "Crikey! No wonder Colin couldn’t remember much about it

Jonny: [laughs]

Steve: "I’ve got one here... which I think I’ve lost... no here it is from Robbie ‘How you manage to remember 200 songs?’ They don’t is the answer.

Ed: "I don’t know... we’ve got 60 songs on the poteinal setlists. We give to Andy (out lighting engineer) and Jim (our sound engineer) a list of 60 songs and say for the next year we’ll be playing 24 a night of these, but it’s funny first when you start rehearsing you do forget them and you have to ... well I go back to the record and listen to them sometimes and go “ Ah... okay!” But it usually comes back after a couple of times.

Steve: "Are you tempted to go back and re-introduce songs into the set knowing that you could do so much with them now in a way, in your subconscious have mutated into different songs almost.

Ed: "Yeah, it’s funny how songs take on life, last week we were in America we were playing No Surprises and there’s the line Thom sings ‘Bring down the government they don’t speak for us’ . The first show in the Beacon Theatre, Thom starts singing ‘Don’t bring’ and suddenly you hear this ‘Whoa!’ and this cheer erupts and there’s this massive ‘wow’, where did that come from and at the same night at this festival we did in Giants Stadium in New York suddenly that song 6 years later has got an added pertinence, it becomes something else. That’s sort of why we hadn’t played Creep in a long time, because some songs become more relevant or just change and some just seem as though they’re steeped. The important thing is to be into what your playing.

Jonny: "I’m sure if we’d played Pop is Dead it’ll be the sound of 20, 000 people with their hand hitting their eyes...

Ed: "The worst single ever.

Jonny: "... rushing for the exit and vomit leaking through their fingers possibly .

Steve: "But in a way there something about the improvisation as well, all your songs must be natural and organic enough you won’t be able to exists on stage if you weren’t to change things of an evening ? Could you?

Ed: "No

Jonny: "It can make some fantastically wrong notes especially in quiet songs and Thom gives you a smile. It’s not really improvising it’s not free jazz or anything really

Steve: "You’re not telling me all that’s rehearsed ?

Jonny: "Umm... ish, kind of.

Steve: "Please don’t ruin it for me just stop right there. Instead pick a track from the new album that you’d like to hear played, you’ve got 13 others because we’ve only played one apart from There There obviously which we played and doesn’t count because that’s the single.

Jonny: "Um...

Steve: "I love the way you leaning over to have a look, do you remember any of these? 2+2?

Jonny: "Yeah, what do you think Steve? Fast or slow early in the evening something with some

Steve: "I would say Sit Down Stand Up, but that’s partly because it’s easy to que and partly because I really like it as well, what do you fancy?

Jonny: "Press play that’ll be great.

Steve: "Just press play and it’ll be great?

Jonny: "Yeah.

Steve: "Okay before you wander off somewhere, we’ve got a bottle of wine each for you because we have come prepared and we were supposed to bring a bottle and Laura our assistant will furnish you with some drink.

Ed: "Ah! The old blue nun.

Steve: [laughs]

Jonny: [laughs]

Steve: "I can’t believe he said that...

Ed: "Thank you very much... screw top even better!

Steve: "... that’s so cruel

Jonny: "Thank you.

Steve: "I was gonna say I’m not having you on my show but we’re in your house

Ed: "Man of class!

[Sit Down Stand Up plays]]

Steve: "What sort of memories does that bring back, Mr. Greenwood?

Colin: "It’s amazing how together it is considering really.

Steve: "Do you remember anything about Bristol Sound City that year, cause TMTN didn’t remember a damn thing to be quite honest

Colin: "Not a thing... no.

Steve: "Not a jot. When you listen some of the old recordings back again, do you blush?

Colin: "Uh... we were listening to that and we were stunned how together it is really I thought it was from the record but we always used to listen back to the shows in the rusty white van driving back to Oxford every night.

Steve: "Did you?

Colin: "Yeah, off the cassette and stuff before the days of digital stuff .

Steve: "Because talking about playing live, in your early days, you used do that all the time didn’t you? You used have to do a gig and you’d drive straight home afterwards, not for you the comfort of the B&B or the rock n’ roll hotel.

Colin: "No... well that’s one of the good things about living in middle of the country, isn’t it? You can back from Manchester in 3 hours on those old Rover car seats in the back of a VW-LD45... brilliant!

Steve: "Do you remember your first van?

Colin: "First van? Yeah, it was like a decommissioned News International van like when the pickets from this whopping thing, we got it cheap from this garage in Oxford and converted it with Vela Rover old car seats in the back with Heineken beer stains and everything... it’s brilliant!

Steve: "It’s amazing how many people’s first van are customized and people have just put seats in them or splitter van where someone has just put a piece of wood in...

Colin: "Yeah... it’s some kind prim evil man urge you’re responding to whether you like it or not, you know.

Steve: "What do you remember of this, which is voted no. 2 in our chart of archive material, this is from Later... with Jools Holland and it’s a version of Life in a Glasshouse. Do you remember the Later show?

Colin: "Yeah! That was brilliant... we did that BBC 2 thing, didn’t we?

Steve: "Yeah...

Colin: "Amazing! And we did that live and it’s every boy’s dream to be on public broadcasting in this country . It was just amazing with Humphrey Lyttleton and all these amazing players and it was just a privilege to be there with them.

Steve: "Okay, you voted it for it here it is No. 2 in your chart of classic Radiohead footage, it’s the ‘Head at Later...

[Life in a Glass House plays]]

Steve: "Featuring Thom Yorke on the... egg... air-drums at the very end of that track.

Thom: "On the egg... yes!

Steve: "Hold the mic you the singer...

Thom: [laughs]

Steve: "... remember how that works?

Thom: "It’s yellow, I can’t hold it.

Steve: "It’s Steve Lamaq with the boys from Radiohead tonight. We’re here till midnight, we have no idea what else is going to happen before then...

Thom: "You’re here till midnight?

Steve: "Yeah...

Thom: "Oh god!

Steve: "We know your jetlagged but bear with us if you can. Okay, loads of questions which have come in via e-mail and text message and this one from Eleven says, ‘What does Noah think of the video to There There?’

Thom: "He was a little worried first time because I turn into a tree and as a small child he can’t differentiate between reality and television .But it’s okay... everybody laughed it off and he understood so that’s fine and he understands I’m not a tree because I come in the mornings.

Steve: "Not being a tree...

Thom: "Yeah.

Steve: "And Kate says, ‘What are you currently reading?’

Thom: "I just finished a book by a friend of mine called George Monboit which is about how to start a world parliament.

Steve: "Start a world parliament?

Thom: "Yep and that’s what’s gonna happen, it’s a great idea but if I would you about it now, we would be here till midnight.

Steve: "I was gonna say it’s taken...

Thom: "It’s called “Age of Content”... plug!

Steve: "It’s taken us months to get anywhere near deciding whether we’re going into the Euros so world paraliament would take us quite sometime.

Thom: "Yeah but you see it’s all about people...

Steve: "Stop.

Thom: "Sorry.

Steve: "Okay... Ladybug says ‘Any plans for a solo album?’ Now this is want one I quite like to see, the Radiohead solo LPs in a Kiss kinda style, would do you think?

Thom: "I don’t anything about Kiss expect that he bumped into me once and he wasn’t very nice [sad voice].

Steve: "Really?

Thom: "Yeah, I was really hurt. [laughs]

Steve: "Would you consider going off and doing something on your own or would that not work?

Thom: "Uh...

Steve: "I mean any members of the band...

Thom: "It’s been considered, yeah... well Jonny sort of did this film thing. I don’t when in the hell that’s coming out!

Steve: "We’ll ask him.

Thom: "Jonny! Jonny! When’s it coming out, your film thing?

Steve: "Here comes Jonny running across the room.

Thom: "Don’t everybody stop, carry on, it’s gotta be a party remember!

Steve: "Don’t mind us, we’re just live on Radio 1 you just carry on having a good time.

Jonny: "What? Can I help in any way?

Thom: "Your film, your film music...

Jonny: "Bodysong.

Thom: "Yeah, that’s it.

Steve: "When’s it coming out?

Jonny: "I don’t know...

Thom: "It’s really good, it is actually really excellent... I mean I would say that and he’s not even giving me any money...

Steve: "The back-slappers of the world...

Thom: "Well... it’s true. Anyway, when’s it out?

Jonny: "I don’t know... no one knows.

Thom: "That’s cause you haven’t decided yet cause you’re chicken... yeah.

Jonny: "Um... yeah .[laughs]

Steve: "While you’re here, we’ve just been asked, would you ever consider a solo album? that’s why we’re asking...

Jonny: "No... me? No.

Steve: "A film, yes. An album, no.

Jonny: "I’m in the best band, I’m in Radiohead, would can you do, it’s fantastic!

Steve: "Aww...

Jonny: "Yeah, that’s how it is.

Steve: "Okay, you’re excused.

Jonny: "Can I get back to my drinking?

Steve: "Off you go!

Jonny: "Thank you.

Steve: "Um... going back to the record, here’s a strange thing, there really is no blue-print for what you do despite the fact that you say you’re musical magpies your always gonna be in an odd position because there’s nothing to really follow, is there?

Thom: "Yeah everything all the time, everything’s follow all the time everywhere... other music all the time.

Steve: "But not in the shape it will eventually turn up as a Radiohead record?

Thom: "That’s because is the sum total of more than one person’s response to something else, you know, cause going back to the solo record thing ... I know if I do a solo record, I would be guilty as one person to the music I like, you know what I mean?

Steve: "Hmm..

Thom: "So I’m really paranoid about that, it really seizes me up. Whereas if it’s five people and everybody’s into the musical idea what ever it is then its something unique because it’s five people... that’s why you form a band especially in music it doesn’t really work with other things necessarily as much. Although film-makers come pretty close cause if you’re the director, you’re only the director and you’re only as good as the people you’re working with. But with painting it’s a bit different and a lot of things are like that... um not solo efforts. So in that sense there’s no blueprint and that’s a comfortable thing in a way in sort of exciting because you never really know. The day I know the others would respond to something, is the day is time to quite, you know, but I don’t know that. Myxomatosis is a really good example of that I didn’t expect them to wanna get into that track at all and when we got together after they had some demos, that was the one that everybody said first we gotta do that somehow because that’s amazing. And I was like ‘wow! Really?’ I was really surprised and really excited cause I expected them to go near the song ones first and they didn’t.

Steve: "Well to be brutally honest, it was my least favourite track on the album after the first few plays...

Thom: "Yeah totally...

Steve: "... listening again today before coming down here and actually it’s got a really... it’s one most bass-heavy, bowl-distorting tracks on this record.

Thom: "There’s something... I don’t what it is but certain points in that song where the drums could flip in and stuff. I think it’s some of the exciting stuff we’ve ever done.

Steve: "Which was the track on the album which had you in tears when you heard the mix?

Thom: "There There, straight away... not voluntary or anything . I’m not given to grind easily but when I do I defiantly go for it. [laughs]

Steve: "What was it? You walked in the studio...

Thom: "Uh... I flew over back to the studio where we recorded in Ocean Way to see Nigel when he was mixing it and it was the first thing he played ... and I don’t know, it was quite scary the idea of finishing the record and when I heard that I was like okay I’m not scared.

Steve: "Sob.

Thom: "Yeah.

Steve: "Steven asked ’Would do consider starting your own record label at any point?’ And this is something I was going to ask you myself. actually.

Thom: "Hmm... I don’t know... my trouble is if I was involved in a record label, I’d tell everyone what to do [laughs] ‘really... surely not you’

Steve: "No way [laughs]

Thom: "But I’d boss people about, you see, and it’s bad to do that. Cause the whole point is, someone who should run a label is someone who just absolutely loves music and is really good at giving people courage and that’s what you need and I’d be like ‘Yeah mate you wanna to it like that, mate’.

Steve: "So could you ever DIY your own record then?

Thom: "What do you mean?

Steve: "Could you ever put out your own album?

Thom: "Oh... maybe... don’t know. It might be a bit boring.

Steve: "Okay I tell you what then, pick another track this current record ‘Hail to the Thief’

Thom: "Cause we have until midnight haven’t we...

Steve: "Yeah absolutely ... loads of time...

Thom: "... pad it out a bit.

Steve: "The album is officially out today even though a lot of you listening at home will have already heard it

Thom: "Yeah, I was in Soho... sorry... I was in New York and people could just add it to their stereos last week and it wasn’t even out and they bought it from Japan presumably

Steve: "Yeah, obviously where it was released

Thom: "Yeah it took me while anyway, where were we?

Steve: "You see who’s padding for time now?

Thom: [laughs]

Steve: "Taking time picking this track, ‘I can’t make my mind up I’ll just carry on talking’

Thom: "Okay now what have we had [whistles] Oh! ‘Where I End and You Begin’.

Steve: "‘Where I End and You Begin’ because why?

Thom: "Uh... cause of the drumming... 6... track 6.Go!

Steve: "Thom Yorke thank you very much we’ll talk to you a bit later on.

Thom: "Phew! Am I off?

Steve: "You’re excused.

[Where I End and You Begin plays]]

Steve: "So that’s was your favourite Radiohead live track ending at Glastonbury 1997 and I hope some of those moments brought back some memories for you. We’ve certainly got loads of reaction from the text and e-mail, including I think this is SocksIsGod who says ‘ Listening to Radiohead live tracks is like drowning in a pool of pure bliss’. Do you share that emotion, Jonny Greenwood?

Jonny: "I saw you writing that it’s very sweet of you, but...

Steve: "No! What about Jerome here who says ’Life in a Glass House is incredibly, it makes my skin shiver’. It was quite a moment .

Jonny: "Yeah that’s got 70 year-old playing on it maybe that’s why. What so you think, Thom?

Thom: "Why... what?

Jonny: "Life in a Glass House...

Steve: "As you can probably tell we are mingling here, if you just tuned in, we are live at Colin Greenwood’s house...

Thom: "You’ve done a very good job, there’s not a camera.

Steve: "No, it’s a very nice atmosphere

Jonny: "We’re drinking more and more talking more and more loudly and making less sense.

Steve: "What about hearing ‘Anyone Can Play Guitar’, it’s probably been a while that recording ?

Thom: "Well, I could only hear the bass but that sounded very good [laughs]

Steve: "Do any of these songs when you hear them back, cause obviously some of them you play differently faster of slower or anything.

Thom: "I always quite surprised how slows things are, because I always think we’ll break next speed and then we always sort of chillin’ slightly... well... is that the right word?

Jonny: "I’m just paralyzed with fear...

Thom: "Yeah, terrified defiantly yeah.

Steve: "It’s coming back to that you look scared on stage sort of thing, isn’t it?

Jonny: "Yeah but I think we’ve been really relaxed on stage for a few years now and recording feels the same now, we’re kinda more relaxed and just making better ones I think.

Steve: "What was the highlight of the tour you’ve just done and obviously we’ve just played some going back some years, But of the gigs you just played?

Thom: "Sheppard’s Bush, the first Sheppard’s Bush show on a Saturday was really good because normally London shows are stressful and it really didn’t feel stressful, we had a really nice time and didn’t freak out about anybody would think or whatever, it was just like do our thing.

Steve: "But you look like you’re having great time, no one can do that freaky dancing like you can.

Thom: "Yeah, that’s a polite way of calling it [laughs]. I’ve heard some much ruder descriptions... ‘freaky dancing‘... yeah.

Steve: "You get the impression that at that point you’re in a world of your own slightly. That’s sounds kinda patronizing, it’s not meant to be at all because when you feel the music even if your not playing it...

Thom: "That’s why you do it, that’s the whole point. The whole point is that’s you’re in some sort of translate state, you know, that’s what you get at a rave as well.

Steve: "This is true although something I haven’t shared. If you excuse me gentlemen I have to have a quick word with Phil Selway before he leaves ... so I’m just going to barge into... we are mingling at the Radiohead album launch party ... sorry ladies I wasn’t getting in the way. Phil, we got a documentary coming out very shortly about Nigel Godrich, can you sum up what he sort of means when he get’s into the studio, is he the motivational man, is he tech-head, what is he? Or what has he been?

Phil: "Is he this evening or listening, so I have to mind what I’m saying? [laughs]

Steve: "He won’t be at home honestly, we’ll just send him a tape of the documentary he’ll never hear it.

Phil: "He’s brilliant for, as you say, the motivational side of it he really keeps everything moving. I think when we were doing Kid A and Amnesiac naturally well we were just procrastinating an awful lot in the studio. So the whole thing went on for a year and a half, almost two years, but with Hail to the Thief, you know, Nigels best way is working very quickly and so he was really cracking the whip and getting us moving like that. It’s just great having the overview on what your doing, you know, when we’ve done a take or anything it’s very difficult to be objective about but Nigel will be there and select which were the good takes so he’s got a brilliant musically ear in that respect and we trust him and it’s great position to be in the studio.

Steve: "You can find out more of what Nigel thinks of the band and listen to the in the car on the way home.

Phil: "Ehh... [laughs]

Steve: "Be afraid, be very afraid, Phil, thank you very much

Phil: "Thanks Steve

Steve: "It’s turning out alright, isn’t it? Obviously a lot of friends and record company people here, it’s very convivial.

Phil: "Yeah it’s the rain, it’s forced everybody inside we’re all getting to know each other.

Steve: "Have you done anything like this before?

Phil: "Well, parties... Radiohead and parties... it’s been known.

Steve: "I’ll take your point, thank you very much.