During the March tour of this year, Radiohead were asked to ‘Tear out’ a page of their diaries and submit these to a National daily newspaper. For whatever reason, they remained unused until now. Radiohead World Service are proud to present...
ABERDEEN - WEDNESDAY 15TH MARCH
Diet coke for breakfast. Aberdeen. Late. Stand dumbfounded on the Ling stage. The crew scratch their professional capacities making throat slicing gestures. NME arrives via Jonny. 9/10 with a gold star and some silly pictures. It is communicated to me that Simon Le Bon loves the album "to death" — does this mean I can crash their parties and perhaps end up in a cupboard with a supermodel?... (At this point I put thick black lines through sixty words on being asked to ‘comment on Richey Manic's disappearance by Radio 4. Nothing I write expresses how riled I am about even being asked). I go shopping and ‘selfishly, criminally, spend £100 on high street consumable nothingness to remind myself what it's like. I selfishly ponder our frothing press. I selfishly ponder the next album...
THOM YORKE (VOCALS/GUITAR)