2011
- Stephen Colbert: Let me ask you something. How old are you guys?
- Thom: (to Phil) I'm... forty-two, right?
- Phil: You are.
- Stephen Colbert: You're forty-two. Grow up, guys. And I mean that lovingly.
Posts tagged Phil Selway
Posted 8 months ago
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 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
Posted 11 months ago
Other than Yorke, their star quality is set on dim. O’Brien is taller than most, with floppy hair and a floppy shirt; he looks like a scruffy extra from a Merchant-Ivory film. He talks and guffaws with bassist Colin Greenwood. Greenwood’s boggly eyes and hip get-up — a pinstriped jacket over a crumpled T-shirt and jeans — looks vaguely rock-starry, but no more so than any Williamsburg wannabe.
Greenwood’s younger brother, Jonny (who plays the guitar, the laptop and anything else that happens to be at hand), appears as though he’s gotten lost on the way to a geek convention. He shifts his weight from foot to foot; his arms hang from their sockets like rope. The candlelight catches his cheekbones. Drummer Phil Selway is wearing a suit and has the distracted air of a dad, which he is.
And Yorke, compact, busy, ever so slightly intimidating (is it his drooping eyes, or is he actually angry?), moves lightly in big boots. He’s laughing about the band’s hotel: “We arrived there, 8 in the morning, on three hours’ sleep, and it was like a country club, just heaving with golfers in Pringle sweaters. I took one look and went, ‘Nooooo!’”
They’re a disparate bunch, Radiohead, but tonight they share one mood: positivity.
Greenwood’s younger brother, Jonny (who plays the guitar, the laptop and anything else that happens to be at hand), appears as though he’s gotten lost on the way to a geek convention. He shifts his weight from foot to foot; his arms hang from their sockets like rope. The candlelight catches his cheekbones. Drummer Phil Selway is wearing a suit and has the distracted air of a dad, which he is.
And Yorke, compact, busy, ever so slightly intimidating (is it his drooping eyes, or is he actually angry?), moves lightly in big boots. He’s laughing about the band’s hotel: “We arrived there, 8 in the morning, on three hours’ sleep, and it was like a country club, just heaving with golfers in Pringle sweaters. I took one look and went, ‘Nooooo!’”
They’re a disparate bunch, Radiohead, but tonight they share one mood: positivity.
Blender, 2003
Posted 11 months ago
2003
- Interviewer: Do you spend much time as a band just hanging out at the pub?
- Philip: Three of us have kids and we’ve got our own lives, but there’s a bond we have that’ll last forever.
Posted 1 year ago
We started off as a school band so there’s always been a slight insecurity generated by that. Part of it is us saying over and over again to ourselves, ‘Who are we trying to kid?’
Phil Selway, 2001
Posted 1 year ago
However there was a lot of pleasure and wonder to be had; indeed, on more that one night I almost managed to tear myself away from the contemplation of Phil’s shapely calves and FACED THE FRONT. Almost.
Colin Greenwood, w.a.st.e. newsletter, 1998
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