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THE Radiohead spoke about their long-awaited European tour and opened up about the reasons for the nearly decade-long break in the band’s first joint interview in years.

“I think things went a little wrong, so we had to stop,” he said. Thom Yorke to the The Times UK about the band’s mood at the end of the album’s 2016 tour A Moon Shaped Pool. “There were a lot of factors. The shows were great, but it was like, let’s stop now before we fall off this cliff.”

“And I needed to stop anyway,” he added. Yorke. “Because I hadn’t really given myself time to process the grief,” referring to the death of Rachel Owen, his former partner and mother of his children, who died of cancer in 2016. “My grief was manifesting in ways that made me think: I need to sort this out.”

“Music can be a way of finding meaning in things, and the idea of ​​having to stop, even when it makes sense, because you’re not okay? Even at my worst moment? I can’t,” he said Yorke about touring at the time. “I need something I can hold on to. But there have been times in my life when I’ve sought solace in music and I’ve played the piano, but it literally hurts. Physically. Music hurts, because you’re going through trauma.”

The guitarist Ed O’Brien added that, at the end of the album tour A Moon Shaped Poolhe was “completely fed up with the Radiohead“. “It wasn’t great in the last round. I enjoyed the shows, but I hated the rest. We felt disconnected, exhausted as fuck. It happens. This has been our whole life — what else is there? Look, success has a strange effect on people — I just didn’t want to do it anymore. And I told them that,” he said. O’Brien.

“I went through a long dark night of the soul. I went into deep depression. I hit rock bottom in 2021. And one of the most beautiful things to come out of it was realizing how much I love these guys. I met them when I was 17, and I went from thinking ‘I can’t see myself doing that again’ to realizing that, you know, we have some brilliant songs.”

For the band’s next tour, Yorke sent a list of 65 potential songs for the setlist to his bandmates. “Which we are all frantically learning,” said the guitarist Johnny Greenwood. “Then Thom will show up and say: let’s cut half.” Unlike other recent reunion tours with rigid setlists, the band’s shows will vary from night to night. “We have too many songs,” he added Yorke.

The band also commented extensively on the Israel-Hamas conflict and the accusations that they were “legitimizing a genocide” in Palestine; Johnny Greenwood He is married to an Israeli artist and spends a lot of time in the region.
“A few times recently they shouted ‘Free Palestine!’ to me on the street. I spoke to a guy. His talk was: ‘You have a platform, a duty and you should distance yourself from Jonny’”, he said Yorke to the Times UK. “But I said, ‘You and me, standing on the street in London, shouting at each other? Well, the real criminals, who should be in front of the ICC (International Criminal Court), are laughing at us fighting among ourselves in the public sphere and on social media — while they just carry on with impunity, murdering people.’ It is an expression of impotence. It’s a test of purity, a low-grade Arthur Miller witch hunt. I totally respect the outrage, but it’s very strange to be on the receiving end.”

While some band members, notably O’Brienexpressed support for a “Free Palestine” on social media, the drummer Philip Selway added: “What the (BDS – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement is asking of us is impossible. They want us to distance ourselves from Jonny, but that would mean the end of the band and Jonny is coming from a very principled place. But it’s weird to be criticized by artists we generally feel pretty aligned with.”

THE Radiohead He was also asked what the band’s future is after the European shows, and whether they will present new songs on the tour. “I don’t know,” he said. Johnny Greenwood. “We didn’t think beyond the tour.” Yorke he added: “I’m just amazed that we’ve made it this far.”

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