In this months Q magazine, theres a Q&A sesson with Tears for Fears, someone asked them:
What did you think when you found out that Radiohead were not best pleased with your performance of Creep?
Roland Orzabal: What can I say? I’m absolutely gutted by that. It destroyed me. I’m never going to cover another Radiohead song again as long as I live. [Starts speaking slowly.] They are such…an amazing.. band that, that…. You know, at the time I covered it he guesses some time in ’93/’94], it was their only hit. I did it as a joke, and I enjoyed singing it, especially because I changed some of the lyrics. But my apologies right now to Thom Yorke. I do appreciate what they have gone on to do… immensely.. even though… even though I don’t like them.
Ed O’Brien from Radiohead said that while they were your support act you treated them “like pigs”. What did you do to piss them off so badly?
Curt Smith: Don’t look at me, because I wasn’t part of the band then.
Roland Orzabal: I didn’t do anything to them. They were whingeing on and on about the monitors. We played just one show together, and there were loads of bands on the bill- I was headlining, of course. The stage manager, I seem to remember, was getting very angry with them.
Curt Smith: Of course, if I had been part of the band then, I would have been much nicer to them. [thanks mandy]
Radiohead news on this day..
- Thom Yorke – All For The Best [live in New York] – 2010
- Atoms For Peace live in New York – Night 2 – 2010
- 2nd leg of North American Radiohead tour revealed – 2008
- Radiohead perform Bangers & Mash for Pitchfork.tv – 2008
- Multiple dates expected for North American shows – 2006
- At Ease presents: Low Morale’s ‘Creep’ – 2005
- Hail to the Online Thieves – 2003
- Radiohead to play Montreal and Barrie in August? – 2003
- Major UK tour this autumn? – 2003
- Guardian on Radiohead ticket touts – 2003
