BBC Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley on Radiohead

Posted on July 5th, 2004.

BBC Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley regularly presents the BBC’s TV coverage of Glastonbury. Whiley in the Independent: “Radiohead headlined the Saturday night of that apocalyptic Glastonbury in 1997. The weather was just hideous. Stages were literally sinking, bands were being cancelled (I remember Kenickie turning up and just waiting around hopelessly in their wellies), people were saying goodbye as if they were never going to see each other again… it was awful. But while I was finishing off that evening’s TV coverage with John Peel, in the distance we heard Radiohead doing “No Surprises”, and suddenly all these fireworks started to go off. It was incredible, one of those spine-tingling moments, when against all odds music can transcend its surroundings and take you to another place.

Mind you, Peel’s reaction was: “I never could see what people saw in that band.” (We were having our usual musical differences.) But he still gave me a piggyback to my caravan was because the mud was so thick. What a gent.” [thanks Alex]

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