Radiohead at the NME Awards 2002

Colin and Ed from Radiohead picked up the award for best video, on behalf of the band and the guys who made the video for 'Pyramid Song'. They explained to Danny O'Connor how the video was made.

Radio 1
25.02.02

Tell us about the video.

Ed: The video was made by a group of four video animators called Shynola, and they took an idea of Thom's, a dream he'd had, and they went away and did it. They are students and they live together and they all have their computers in their rooms and they are all linked up and that's how they work. It's amazing, they are really great animators.

Has it been an interesting year?

Ed: The last year is the best year that we've had as a band and the best year we've had.. it felt like pay back time, really. You love doing the early gigs but this time we had a fairly easy schedule and we played all these places we'd heard about like Madison Square Gardens, Verona (the amphitheatre) and places like that. We were relaxed and we enjoyed ourselves rather than the usual fraught and anxiety! But that's how we are.

How do the awards compare to last year's awards?

Ed: I remember being very nervous last year. U2 were here and everyone had albums to promote and this year it's em… (mumbles) sorry!

What do you think about The Strokes?

Colin: I listen to a different kind of music but I don't know anything about them… sorry.

Ed: You've got to talk about White Stripes and Electric Soft Parade too, and they have great energy for debut records [e.n.: check your sources, Ed - the White Stripes' album was their third!]. I've been really excited these guitar bands coming through and you need to see them live. If I was in The Strokes I'd be really proud of that as a great debut record.

What's next for yourselves?

Ed: We are doing some more recording and playing live... somewhere with a temperature and a climate and garlic and olive oil and booze!

No Glastonbury, then?

Ed: We did it in '97 and it took the wind out of our sails. It was so brilliant but so hard. It is the great festival but we'll do it when we are ready to do it, or we'll do it when we are asked to do it. It's just slipping away every year!