Stanley Donwood featured in Candy

Stanley Donwood is referred to as the fifth Radiohead member by Candy Collective. Could be a math problem, but as long as 2+2=5, who cares… Anyway, Candy issued its 8th issue with another interview with Stanley and some more artwork on display.

“I didn’t know about Creep, and I had very little idea about Radiohead’s sort of music. I was part of a different subculture at that time; the music I liked was characterised by the repeated emission of repetitive beats, very fast, and danced to in warehouses by an ‘audience’ who had taken a variety of interesting drugs. My artwork at the time was in the form of political flyposters and graffiti on disused buildings. Like I say, another world.

We work together as often as time permits. It’s much easier to work as a pair. When we do artwork individually it’s much harder to work out if it’s good or if it’s shit. By the way, there are only two classifications in art: good, or shit. It’s a handy rule to remember.”

There’s lots more than that. Candy is available as two pdf files. Be warned; they’re both over 40mb. Stanley’s interview is on the second one, but both files are worth checking out. Get them here.


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  • silvina

    if he’s the 5th member, who’s out? haha

  • http://batteringroom.blogspot.com Chris

    Does that make Nigel the 6th? or the 7th?

    …..8th???

  • steve

    i guess ed has been demoted to 6th.

  • steve

    1. thom
    2. jonny
    3. colin
    4. phil
    5. stanley
    6. ed
    7. nigel
    8. dante
    9. george monbiot
    10. that bear thing

  • bbb

    i would put nigel over ed.

  • http://www.redtube.com/ Bilbo

    Dick!

  • rice

    page 152

  • HTTT

    cool

  • art

    Make a good album cover.

  • patrick

    that would actually be sixth, not fifth

  • nitrostar

    we can’t give up the fight…

    i wonder how ed feels about all the trasching that goes on atease!

  • steve

    for the record, ed is my favorite “person” in radiohead. i think he keeps the whole band from drifting off into cloud cuckoo land. but it’s fun to poke fun at him because musically he’s definitely the “fifth” member.

  • Steve

    Probably a direct reference to the ‘fifth Beatle’ rather than the number of people in a band. Otherwise a journalist’s head will spin if he tries to refer to an extra member of the Polyphonic Spree.

  • http://ylovesporn.com Dahling

    Lol at the comments on this thing – I’m off to get the pdf’s.