Posts tagged Ed O'Brien

Quote 87
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Posted 1 month ago
Thom has the most acute bullshit detector in the band.
Ed O’Brien (via the-king-of-ponytails)
via the-king-of-ponytails
Quote 61
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Posted 7 months ago
We’re finalizing dates now, we’ll be on the road from the end of February to November and we’ll be playing in both the UK and US, the usual ports of call.
Ed O’Brien, on upcoming tour, 2011
Chat 65
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Posted 8 months ago

2011

  1. Stephen Colbert: Are you guys planning on doing a Christmas album this year?
  2. Thom: No, we're not. We've never done a Christmas album.
  3. Stephen Colbert: Ever thought about it?
  4. Thom: ...No.
  5. Stephen Colbert: 'Cos I did a Christmas album a couple years back. Yeah, it won a Grammy.
  6. Thom: Did it?
  7. Stephen Colbert: Yeah, you guys got any Grammys?
  8. Thom: I think we have, haven't we?
  9. Ed: Yep.
  10. Stephen Colbert: How many you got?
  11. Colin: Best packaging.
  12. Stephen Colbert: Best packaging? That's one of the top ones right there.
Quote 11
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Posted 8 months ago
You don’t realise once you’ve stopped [making music], how hard it is to regain the momentum. You literally get out the habit of doing it but often the only way to stop repeating yourself is to stop doing that thing, walk away from it. Sometimes you have to go away in order to come back.
Ed O’Brien, 2005
Quote 58
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Posted 11 months ago
Everyone’s entitled to an opinion, but, it’s what we do. It’s like, we do what we feel inspired by. ‘We can do that, we can whip out another The Bends or OK Computer’. No, we can’t do that. No, because those records were where we were five, six years ago. We’re human beings. If you’re a human being, you move on, you get more experiences through life. You don’t stay in one place. […] We get very pissed off when people say Radiohead should make another guitar record. It’s like, fuck off. We’re doing what we feel is right. And maybe we will make another guitar record, but we can only do that once we’ve done the other stuff.
Ed O’Brien, 2001
Chat 10
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Posted 11 months ago

From The Same Interview

  1. Ed: I'll do the late night guilty pleasure...
  2. Interviewer: EASY! We're not gonna get sticky again are we?
  3. Ed: ...on iTunes. No, no, no, no.
  4. Interviewer: Just checking. I wish I had my screen up, I'd have a drumroll for that one.Yeah, the late night guilty pleasure. Ed, please clarify.
  5. Ed: Well, you know, when you've had a few or whatever and someone says...
  6. Interview: Clarify, Ed! Clarify!
  7. Ed: Oh, you know, you're either drunk or... whatever... and someone says, and someone says I haven't heard you, talking about music, and you haven't heard, like, I don't know, like a track like... I dunno, I know what it is, you're thinking of... And you're going like, what was that? What was that, Supertram, what was that Supertramp song? You know, and it's like, you know, that stuff is (something)
  8. Interviewer: So you log on...
  9. Thom: So let me get this straight, what you're saying is, you get, like, busy-
  10. Ed: I get busy!
  11. Thom: ...downloading Supertramp.
  12. Ed: Yeah, baby. There's nothing like a bit of old retro seventies...
  13. Interview: I think I would have preferred it if you'd gotten sticky, to be honest with you!
  14. Thom: ...get together...
Chat 37
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Posted 11 months ago

On Time Spent After Hail To The Thief

  1. Thom: I went off and did my own thing.
  2. Interviewer: How dare you?
  3. Thom: No, it was all right.
  4. Ed: No, it was great. Some of us bred. I did some breeding.
  5. Thom: Most of us bred!
  6. Ed: We all bred, in fact. Quite ostensibly.
  7. Interviewer: Is it nice that mother nature and in fact god if you believe in a higher power will have to work to Radiohead’s schedule? Sure, have a kid! Have a kid!
  8. Ed: Absolutely.
  9. Thom: It got a bit sticky at points.
  10. Interviewer & Ed: (laughing)
  11. Ed: Ba-boom!
Quote 33
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Posted 11 months ago
I hate cheese.
Ed O’Brien, 2007
Quote 19
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Posted 11 months ago
If you want something good to come out of something, you have to put in a lot of effort. That involves a lot of hard work, and a lot of blood, sweat and tears sometimes. No different to anything, no different to what we all do.
Ed O’Brien, 2004
Quote 58
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Posted 11 months ago
Their love of Joy Division united Radiohead, along with their worship of the Smiths and R.E.M. O’Brien was recruited because he looked like Morrissey. They stole Jonny Greenwood from Andrew Yorke’s band. Selway came along for the ride, and then there were five. They practiced in a sympathetic teacher’s music rooms.
Blender, 2003