Kane: "Hi, it is Kane here on Ethel 47, xm satellite radio and uh, with me now, from Radiohead, by the way, cover boy...well, Not really Ed perse, but Thom Yorke on the cover of the new Rolling stone. Ed O'Brien is with me! Hi, Ed, how are you?

Ed: "Hi! Good man, and how are you?

Kane: "I'm uh, I'm wonderful! Thanks for (uh) spending some time with us! It's a busy time in your life right Now.

Ed: "Yeah, it's pretty busy but it's a good busy, isn't it!

Kane: "Well, you tell me! Is it a good busy?

Ed: "Well I think it is!

Kane: "Yeah.

Ed: "It's a good busy when you feel you've got a great record, you kNow, under your...you're doing a... you've just done a great record and, and things are going well, so yea, it's a good busy.

Kane: "And it's got to feel good, too, because, it, first of all it is a phenomenal record, In Rainbows, everyone agrees, it's on best-of lists: pretty much everyone's lists. Er, are you as happy with it as you thought you were gonna be?

Ed: "Um,

Kane: "Did it turn out the way that you...

Ed: "Well,

Kane: "expected it?

Ed: "Yeah, I mean: let's put it this way. If it wasn't as good as ...it was, we wouldn't have released a record. And I think at one stage it looked like we weren't going to release a record because...

Kane: "Really??

Ed: "...it just wasn't going to be that good. Um, yeah. It had to be, we had to be hugely proud of it, and this is the one we're hugely proud of. (15 step clips)

Kane: "How many songs did you...uh, go into the sessions with. I mean, did you have a lot of them (Ed is heard preparing to speak...) that you had to whittle down, or?

Ed: "Well, yeah, I mean Nigel said what we're traditionally we've, well, in the last, the last three records, since Kid A, we've had a board of songs with a list of, you kNow, anything from about Thirty songs upwards. And Nigel was like, "We can't do that this time, chaps. We've got to just focus on a few songs." So he whittled it down for about fifteen songs and focused on those. And that seemed to work quite well!

Kane: "Now, NUDE is, that's about ten years old, is it Not?

Ed: "Yeah...

Kane: "How did you decide to use that song then, what was the thought process there?

Ed: "Well, the thing about NUDE was that it was a...it was a song that had been kicking around, and we'd actually, we'd actually done a version; recorded a version of it when we were making OK Computer.

Kane: "M hm!

Ed: "And we actually played it live at the end of the OK Computer tour! It's on a, we did...there was a Dvd that we put out called Meeting People Is Easy, a sort of fly-on-the-wall documentary about...

Kane: "Right, right right!

Ed: "the band at that time, and it's one of the live songs at the end there on that DVD. So, it's been around a while, and it just, you kNow, we knew it was one of those songs that "A song has to find its time:" It has to find its moment, it has to ...it, and I think it comes from...Thom had to be able to sing it like that, and you kNow, when he was Twenty-seven it might Not have been, he maybe didn't have the maturity to sing it like that! And, ten years older he's lived a little bit more ...and it...he...it felt right to him! And, we didn't have a bass part! And the bass part came up about two, two years ago when we were rehearsing for this record, and it was like, "Oh, yeah, OK! Now that locks it all in!" And so: it, you kNow, some songs just take a while. Some songs happen immediately and other songs just you kNow: really good songs, but they...you have to wait for that moment when it's right. (Nude clips)

Kane: "So congratulations on everything! It just continues... you're just one of those bands who can't put out something that sucks. You kNow?

Ed: "Well that's very kind of you! I, well...

Kane: "Everything you do!

Ed: "I'd disagree in the past. Well, I think sometimes we, yeah, I mean...

Kane: "Wait, let me ask you then. Is there something you're Not proud of in your past?

Ed: "No, I mean I think it's all a learning curve. I mean there's certainly a single that was a UK single in the early days called Pop is Dead which was really bad, but I mean I think in the... You always react to a previous record,so maybe I'm being a bit harsh on Hail to the Thief, but I think we didn't edit that very...well. I think it would have been better if it had been ten or eleven songs rather than Fourteen. So, I think we should've taken out three songs, cause they kind of let the side down a bit. But apart from that, if that's our only crime then I guess that's Not too bad.

Kane: "Yah. It's going well! Ed O'Brien from Radiohead. Again, thank you, dude, we'll look forward to seeing you when you get to your...get here to the U.S.!

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