So, what's after the USA and Canada?
Everyone's quite tired at the moment and we need a break. We're having our first period of over two weeks off in years, in January.

You've asked for a year to record the next album. Do you think it'll take that long?
I don't know. I think what we meant was that we didn't want any pressure to have an album out by September. It would be cool to keep the momentum going, but I don't think we respond that well to dead-lines in that respect. We need the freedom. It won't be that long, but we've got to get into rehearsing, writing, arranging and recording.
Sometimes it happens very quickly with Radiohead, it's a very easy process, and at other times it takes a while. A track like Fake Plastic Trees took a long time to get an angle on and it wasn't until it was finally mixed by Sean and Paul that they made something of it, so we just Want the freedom to be able to record a shitload of songs and be really proud of them, and release them. Obviously we're not going to do a Stone Roses, but we don't really want to have to have something out by September, so we have to have it ready by the end of July. We might well do, and if that's the case then that's great, but we just need the freedom of knowing that we've got the time we need.

Are there any other plans for 1996?
I think we're going over to America. High and Dry seems to be doing very well on the radio over there at the moment America's funny, because we toured there a lot this year, but last year we didn't play there at all, and we've left it 18 months, which is too long. Audiences can be quite fickle. We've got a good following there, but it can drop off if you don't tour regularly.
I think we're going over there at the end of March for about three weeks to play the big towns, and it's also a chance for us to play new material. We found the benefit of that from The Bends when we went of touring for two months and we basically played the new album in, so we'll be doing that in America and I think maybe we're gonna do some dates in Ireland, and as for the UK, it would be great to tour at the end of the year. I'm sure we will do, but we've got to get the album under way.

Chris Douridas: “This is an album that I guess got propelled by the contributions that turned up on Romeo + Juliet... ‘Talk Show Host’, ‘Exit Music’...”

Thom Yorke: “Well, the Romeo + Juliet thing was a good way to kick our arses into gear. When we finished The Bends, when we came down off that, we said, ‘well basically we're gonna have as much time as we want’ – and everybody gave us as much time. We said we wanted to produce ourselves, and they said ok and basically let us do whatever we wanted. We went out on tour for a bit with Alanis Morissette to rehearse our stuff in front of people, which is a bit weird, but it worked out all right. And while we were there, we got a tape from Baz Luhrman, the director of Romeo + Juliet. And it was great, because he said, ‘Do you want to do the exit music for it?’ And it was a real kick, because it sort of made us get up, get our shit together.”

Chris: “Is that normally how you try out the songs? Do you put them before an audience before you record them, or was that new for you this time?”

Thom: “We'd gotten to the point, and we kind of couldn't make certain decisions. So it was like, the only way to make this decision is to go and stand in front of 10,000 people... all these kids down the front eating popcorn, not looking interested at all – it seemed like the right thing to do.”