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Radiohead on Copyright, Carbon, Glasto & Glasgow
In Today’s Daily Record an interview with Thom Yorke and Ed O’Brien is published for The Big Razz. Phil Selway was interviewed for a piece published in Metro. Radiohead explain why they are playing Glasgow Green tonight and not Glastonbury.
Ed O’Brien: “The reason we didn’t do it was because we did it on Hail To the Thief tour. We felt it wasn’t appropriate to do it this year because we didn’t want to be the Glastonbury house band. It’s such a special gig, it’s almost like you have to wait your turn.”
The band also talk about their eco-friendly tour. Ed: “So we bought another set of gear, shipped it to America on a slow container ship - because fast ships, like the QE2, have as big an impact as a 747. Now we’ve got one set of gear in America and one in Europe, so there’s no air-freighting. The other thing we’ve done is invested about £200,000 in batteries.”
Phil in Metro: “‘It still has to be a show that everyone wants to come to,’ he says. ‘But within those parameters there are things you can do that aren’t so wasteful. We’ve got solar generators to run all the sound systems and we’re looking into low-energy light shows, so it’s changing.”
And although Radiohead are now signed to several indie labels for their latest release ‘In Rainbows’, the band miss old label EMI, but won’t go back as long as Guy Hands is in charge. Ed said: “All we wanted from EMI was some kind of control over our back catalogue. The way artist record deals are, all that material we don’t own - we will never own the copyright. We’ve paid for it over and over. EMI have made more than £40million from us and we still don’t own that material.”
“We weren’t asking for money. Universal would have given us five times the amount. We knew that. But we weren’t after the money. It’s ensured that we never, ever, ever re-sign to EMI while there’s a Guy Hands involvement. Who knows what could happen in the future. We could say, ‘EMI is great, we miss it and we could go back there’”
On the recent ‘Best of Radiohead’ release by EMI, Ed said: “The packaging is awful. There are three really bad photos. They’re not going to make any money from it because they’ll spend so much on TV advertising. Another thing is that greatest hits don’t sell in America. I don’t understand why they’re doing it.”
Read the full interviews over at The Daily Record and Metro.
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5 Responses to “Radiohead on Copyright, Carbon, Glasto & Glasgow”
g. llauri
June 27th, 2008
What I dont get is, why didnt the band just bad instruments IN America? Does America not have any instrument shops?
Also has anyone here bought the greatest hits?
Robbie
June 27th, 2008
answering to Robbie:
There are instruments shops in america for sure, but any musician is attached to its OWN instruments… even if surely they have a bunch of different guitars, i cant see them buying them in double just for the american legs…
patate20100
June 27th, 2008
‘I think it went better than any of us could’ve hoped for, really.’
As for the fans, I think we are making it happen as great as we hoped for! 
In any case it’s great to know they are enjoying it as much as the fans!
Cee
June 27th, 2008
“So we bought another set of gear, shipped it to America on a slow container ship - because fast ships, like the QE2, have as big an impact as a 747. Now we’ve got one set of gear in America and one in Europe, so there’s no air-freighting. The other thing we’ve done is invested about £200,000 in batteries.”
IF EVERY
BAND
DID THIS…
(raises fist, sheds tears of hope)
drmnoleary
June 29th, 2008
got to praise their stand against selling their soul for money. EMI has turned into a blind machine that will suffer detrimental blows unless they don’t change their ways. but then, it’s america we’re talking about.
hail to the thief. and stay strong in your stand, you radioheads.
cheers.