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Posts tagged Colin Greenwood
Posted 8 months ago
Radiohead: 'We sympathise with Wall Street protestors'
Radiohead have said they sympathise with protestors who stormed Wall Street last week.
The band, who were forced to deny reports they were planning to play a gig in support of the protests last Friday (September 30), told NME that the rumour “got out of control”.However, bassist Colin Greenwood said that they certainly “understand” the protestors’ anger at the financial system.
He commented:
Are we sympathetic to the protestors’ cause? Of course. I understand people feeling frustrated with Wall Street, anyone would be, especially as those institutions were bailed out by taxpayers’ money. I don’t think that’s a controversial thing to say.Greenwood also hinted that the Oxford group will be playing more live shows in support of their latest album ‘The King Of Limbs’, remarking that they had been having a “brilliant time” on their recent short US tour. The jaunt saw the band play two nights at New York’s Roseland Ballroom and appear on TV show The Colbert Report.
He added: “We’ve not had much of a chance to play ‘The King Of Limbs’ live. There was the Glastonbury performance, but with our own shows we can have the full production. We’re getting together this week to talk about our plans for the rest of the year. We’re having a brilliant time, so obviously we want to keep it going.”
Greenwood also spoke about howRadiohead have been playing with a second drummer, Clive Deamer, who has played with the likes of Portishead and Robert Plant.
“It’s every bass player’s fantasy, being surrounded by all this amazing rhythm stuff. An ongoing arrangement? Yes, it’s working out great. Obviously Clive steps aside when we play the older stuff. But it’s been a lot of fun – we’ve known Clive since about 1995,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, Radiohead are due to release their new remix album ‘TKOL 1234567’ – which you can hear in full below – next Monday (October 10).
Frontman Thom Yorke is due to play a DJ set at London’s Corsica Studios on the day after the release (11), alongside the likes of Jamie XX, Caribou, Lone and Illum Sphere, who have all contributed tracks to the LP.
Posted 8 months ago
We were all scared of Phil. He was in the class ahead of us, and he was in this band called Jungle Telegraph, so we knew him as ‘The Graf.’ we weren’t old enough and not in with his crowd.
Colin Greenwood (via fifteen-blows)
Posted 8 months ago
2007
- SPEC: With such a large young-adult fan base—who will be the future leaders of the world—do you think music will influence these future leaders? And how specifically would you like to see Radiohead’s music influence them?
- COLIN GREENWOOD: I don’t think music influences people in a direct-action kind of way, but it does help to shape tastes and perhaps that has a part to play in growing up. If we make people think, then we’ve achieved something.
Posted 10 months ago
the sun, december 2007
- Q: Do Colin and the rest ever quiz Thom about his lyrics?
- Colin: No. Thom doesn’t have to explain his lyrics to us as they are really clear. These songs are so beautiful and so personal, about who you could be with and the choices you’ve made in your life. They’re love songs or songs with the promise of love. They’re emotional songs that relate to people’s lives directly. Everyone falls in and out of love. Thom is such an emotionally honest person. He’s either on or he’s not, there’s no pretending to put the light on, which is why he’s such an amazing performer. He doesn’t take a back seat and fake the emotions.
Posted 10 months ago
Interview
- Sergii: Okay, so maybe another hard question. [laughs] There was information in Israel Time Out magazine that Jonny lives in Israel, has a house in Israel.
- Colin: Right.
- Sergii: And the locals in this city...
- Colin: Yes.
- Sergii: ...they claim that he...
- Colin: Is a werewolf...
- Sergii: No, that he plays little gigs, like open mic...
- Colin: [Laughs] Open mic nights. That’s funny. No, I don’t think it’s true. I think when he goes away he wants to get... no... He spends a lot of time in front of his computer writing music for films, and the strings and things. But I don’t think he goes out and... I think he might do some stand-up comedy...
Posted 10 months ago
interview with Colin Greenwood
- Sergii: Okay, so...
- Colin: Yes!
- Sergii: You know, we're like doing a bit like a fun interview.
- Colin: Oh, good!
- Sergii: And we’re asking, like, questions where...
- Colin: Great!
- Sergii: ...we want to know what you guys are doing.
- Colin: Nice!
Posted 11 months ago
- Interviewer: Have you ever injured yourself?
- Colin: Only my pride.
- Thom: Colin's more the, er... Bill Wyman performance in the band.
- Interviewer: What's injured your pride? Tripped and fallen over?
- Colin: Um, starting to play bass at the beginning of the song and something's been switched off.
- Thom: It's actually happened quite a lot.
- Colin: Our guitar tech ran across the stage and switched all the amps off at the end of the set, which is the professional thing to do. But we didn't know 'cause we're not professionals, and so we came back on stage to play and, ah, everyone turned their amps on except Jonny. He'd forgotten. And he played that powerchord in Creep and he raised his hand 'cause he doesn't play until then, and... silence.
- Thom: Complete silence.
- Colin: He was so upset.
- Thom: We all just cracked up.
- Colin: It was really funny.
Posted 11 months ago
We don’t play music to make money. If we did, we would make music in a very different way, like most of our peers do. We would tour for a lot longer and we would charge more. We would manufacture our own clothes and merchandise. We would sign a record contract with somebody else.
Colin Greenwood, 2003
Posted 11 months ago
I’m optimistic about the future. You have to be. If it was just about the world being dark then you wouldn’t ever do anything to try and illuminate it. As you get older you have to let go – it’s like falling backwards and thinking you’ll be caught.
Colin Greenwood, 2003
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