Interviewer: Welcome to MTV Latino. So tell me what you've been doing lately, I've heard Pablo Honey is a thing of the past? You're now doing the My Iron Lung EP. What's it all about?

Jonny: What's it all about? Well it's about drugs, it's very medical. It's about hospitals.

Interviewer: Iron Lung?

Jonny: It's what they used to put you in when you had polio, big containers.

Thom: And you spend your entire life in them, or else you die. They used to have mirrors. But your head was all you could see, the rest of you was in this huge iron case. It was an image I had in my head. It seemed appropriate at the end of the Pablo Honey thing, the end of the Creep thing, it kind of felt like I was in this image. Well it is a life support system, we felt like we were feeding this life support system. We'd sold a million records but at the end of it it was like "we've got to move on. We've got to move on".

Interviewer: On Pablo Honey there were two strong singles, Creep and Stop Whispering, which became very popular in Latin America. So the next album....first of all what about Mexico? What did you think of Mexico?

Jonny: We were extremely happy to play in Mexico, partly because we got to play outside Mexico City, and we went into these towns that English bands had never played before....

Thom: blatantly never played....

Jonny: and it was nice not to just do one date in Mexico City and then fly out. We didn't like the gigs in the city, but the gigs in the country were crazy.

Thom: Yeah, some of the shows were hard work. We turned up in... Guadalajara?

Jonny: Yeah, Guadalajara.

Thom: And the venue was this huge stone theatre, with like a plug hanging off the wall on the stage, and that was it. You could see daylight out of the roof on the stage, and it was like "oh my god, we have to rebuild the stage, rebuild the PA, rebuild everything. It was hard work for the crew and it was...every day something was going to happen, you know? No band had ever been there before, and it was "groundbreaking" was the word that was used when being polite.

Interviewer: So we've had Radiohead in Mexico City, then Radiohead in Buenos Aires Argentina?

Jonny: Exactly. We'll hit outside Buenos Aires too, like we say, a massive tour of the country, rather than just one night. That's what we suggested originally. Rather than play to lots of people in one night, we play lots of little clubs.

Thom: It's pointless doing it that way really because then you get lots of people who come because they can, not because they're necessarily fans, but because they're curious. We did it because we could get to a lot more people, and because we prefer playing smaller gigs anyway, even if they are chaos. But it worked to our advantage because when we left, Iron Lung was about #11 in the charts.

Interviewer. Next question....when is the next album, is it the beginning of next year?

Jonny: That's right. It's February. February of next year.

Thom: Yeah, a single in January, and then the album hopefully will come out everywhere simultaneously.

Jonny: And we've just decided on the name in the past few days. It's going to be called 'The Bends'.

Interviewer: The Mends?

Jonny: The Bends.

Interviewer: The Benz?

Jonny and Thom: The Bends.

Interviewer: Oh, OK.

Thom: It's a diving term. You know, when you come up really fast?

Interviewer: OK. (Speaks in Spanish).