| Radiohead
interview (part one) |
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| Radiohead
drummer Phil Selway |
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Who
better to ask about being in Radiohead than a member of the band.
Step forward drummer PHIL SELWAY who spoke exclusively to 大象传媒 Oxford's
JEREMY STERN.
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How
did the band start?
We were all at school together. We existed as band for six or seven
years before we actually approached a record company.
We were using that time to learn how to write songs, how to arrange
and how to play really.
So
it was a bedroom band for six years then as is the classic tale for
most bands you meet the right people at the right point.
Things then happened quite quickly for us in
terms of going from a very obscure bedroom band to being signed to
EMI.
That happened over a matter of about four or five months.
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| Phil
Selway at the 大象传媒 Oxford offices. |
Has
it always been important to Radiohead that it remains the five or
you?
It's very important. It's a large part of the glue that keeps it all
together. That extends to everyone else who works with us.
On the whole everyone who works on our crew and management has been
there from the very early days.
So there's that level of trust and understanding between everybody.
Does the band stay in touch with the local Oxford music scene?
The South Park show was a good opportunity to
find out a bit more about what's going on.
Personally I don't get the chance to go out to too many gigs these
days, but the Rock Of Travolta were amazing.
They got up in front of all those people at South Park, and by the
way they played you'd think they do that every day. The onslaught
of their onstage sound was incredible.
And how was the South Park show for you?
It was amazing. It's what you dream of really. Having a show like
that in what was my local park at the time was quite something.
Seeing the response from the audience was brilliant. We played Creep
as the encore and we hadn't played it for a very long time. Looking
out into the audeince and seeing the pandamonium is an image that
will stay with me. It was very bizarre but very special.
Click here to read part
two of the interview, in which Phil talks about the recording of classic
album OK Computer.
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