radiohead .

Just before you arrived, I talked a bit with our manager: this tour doesn’t seem like anything we have done before. On albums like The Bends, OK Computer, or Kid A, there is a lot of darkness. You hear a very profound melancholy, and the tours were just that, but Radiohead really isn’t like that. Now we are love and light, and because of that, these concerts have been very, very different from all the ones before. These concerts are edifying, very much alive and full of love…it’s like The Beatles, “All you need is love”. It’s true. We have found that and we have taken it to our concerts. In the past, we were on stage, seeming distant from the public and it really wasn’t like that. Now there is an energy that spreads around, goes out and comes back, and any person in the audience comes back being as important as Thom or myself. We only facilitate love. It’s very powerful. These past few weeks, we have offered the most different shows of our careers and, for me, the best we’ve ever done, because our spirit is different….

I talked a little to someone about this and I stated that…we have always moved ourselves. On OK Computer, we entered an incredibly dark place. It was like being in a tunnel, which we were in during OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail to the Thief. It seemed that we had just found our way out, but that was not the case. On In Rainbows, part of the fight was trying to leave that tunnel. When we look at that album, we feel that we had already left that dark place. We didn’t want to go back to that because we have spent too much time there. You could be very creative when you’re there, but it kills you as a person. It’s very tough. It drains you. It’s not a good place to be. It also makes you feel bored musically because it only allows you to makes a certain type of music. Now we are in a very illuminated state and creatively different. It’s flowing, but in order to get here, we had to overcome the darkness in order to appreciate that. The last two years are a new era of Radiohead.