Radiohead Not Breaking Up, Discuss Future Plans

Radiohead Not Breaking Up, Discuss Future Plans

Radiohead‘s current tour in support of A Moon Shaped Pool is slated to end on July 19 with a controversial performance in Tel Aviv, Israel. What the band does after that has been a source of much speculation. But in a new interview with the band in Rolling Stone, the members put to rest any rumors that Radiohead are calling it quits. “I would imagine we’ll keep going. I mean, I don’t know how, or when, but no, we’re not gonna stop. I fucking hope not,” Thom Yorke said.

Colin Greenwood said, “I don’t know what’s going to happen after July, so I can’t say anything beyond that. But I love the people that I work with, and I love what everyone does. So we’ll see. But I’m happy to go play anywhere else.”

Phil Selway added, “It’s a blank calendar at the moment [after this leg ends], but we all have other stuff that’s been on hold for a little while. I feel that come July we will have done as much as we can with what we’ve got at the moment. I’d love the idea that we’d be back out again touring at some point, but I think this feels about right for this record.”

When asked by Rolling Stone about the possibility of Radiohead continuing to tour into their ’70s, Ed O’Brien said, “You see that joy Leonard Cohen got. You see it with the Dead or Neil Young when he goes off with Crazy Horse. Everybody would like to see Pink Floyd do it. If we were to do it, it would have to be authentic. It might be like the Rolling Stones. It might be like Leonard Cohen or the Grateful Dead.”

Yorke also spoke about his own plans separate from Radiohead. “There’s also a bunch of things I’m doing on my own that I have to finish,” he said. “They’ve been on hold for ages. Whether they will translate into anything, I’m not quite sure. It’s kind of weird. I don’t have a plan for the second part of the year at the moment. I mean, I wasn’t able to plan things for a long time now and now I can. I’m trying to get my head around that.”

Radiohead’s current run of shows, which coincide with the 20-year anniversary of OK Computer (set to be reissued on June 23), are unlikely to feature the classic album performed in its entirety, the band told Rolling Stone. Selway said “‘Fitter Happier’ might have a few issues. We’d also have to play ‘Electioneering’ then, wouldn’t we? So no, I don’t think we’ll do that.” (The band has not performed “Electioneering” live in two decades.)

You might still get to see them play “Creep” though, if you’re lucky. “It’s a good song,” O’Brien told Rolling Stone. “It’s nice to play for the right reasons. People like it and want to hear it. We do err towards not playing it because you don’t want it feel like show business. But we started throwing it in last year.”

Yorke added, “The first time I’m feeling the fakes we’ll stop. It can be cool sometimes, but other times I want to stop halfway through and be like, ‘Nah, this isn’t happening.’”

Pitchfork recently celebrated the 20-year anniversary of OK Computer with a week of features, essays, interviews, and more. Find those here.

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