“We couldn’t have carried on the way was”

“Making Kid A almost broke Radiohead. Ahead of its release in October 2000, David Cavanagh met the band’s five members at various locations across Oxford to get the inside story on the record that redirected the course of their career.”

The new Radiohead album, Kid A, was finished four-and-a-half months ago. Having almost split up in February after arguments about the tracklisting, the five members managed to agree on a 10-song running order in April, and immediately began rehearsing for a short European tour in June and July - their first sequences of dates since the spring of ’98. “Certain people within the group wanted to play some live concerts,” explains bassist Colin Greenwood, not sounding like he was one of them, “which I suppose dictated the curtailment of the recording as much as anything.” Sitting at the kitchen table in his Oxford home, Greenwood looks pretty curtailed himself. He seems to be struggling to maintain eloquence without nodding off into his mug of tea or rubbing his buggered-looking eyes out. He…

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