Radiohead Promise New Album Next Year
Radiohead will release a new album next year, according to lead singer Thom Yorke.
The 'Amok' hitmaker, 49, told our reporter over a ciggie and a pint at Oxford's Pig In The Poke pub that the 'boys are mad for it right now, Johnny especially.'
Yorke, 49, said that the band was gearing up for a 'meat and potatoes type of record'. "With the rise of UKIP and all the dreadful sex abuse scandals, this is no time to be rocking the boat. 'Don't rock the boat, don't tip the boat over...' We also have our future knighthood prospects to think of now. Me and Johnny especially," Yorke said.
The enigmatic frontman was in high spirits as he downed a pint and showed off his latest party trick of pretending to lunge at our reporter's face with a fork, only to halt his momentum in a perfect dead stop inches from her retina. "See? Catlike. Don't flinch, love."
York, 49, said the rest of the band were 'right on board' with his vision for the new album, 'and if they're not they can like it or lump it. I'm not sure I can even remember all their names at this point.'
Radiohead has always been a family affair ever since it was founded at Oakhollow Methodist Boy's School by brothers Johnny, Colin, Sebastian, Ivor, Birch, Morris and Henry Greenwood in the 1980s. It was originally named 'On A Friday' in honour of our Lord's passion, but a string of tragic freak accidents saw the brothers killed off one by one, to be replaced by new recruits.
As the 1980s drew to a close, the band drifted slowly away from its Christian metal fanbase. The Greenwoods' run of bad luck continued into the nineties though, with Colin Greenwood walking away from a head-on car crash only to be kidnapped by a notorious serial killer two weeks later. By the time police rescued him, he had had all four limbs amputated and both eyes gouged out.
"It's almost like God was punishing us for making bad music," Colin Greenwood said. "Still, all that did make me the man I am today; a cripple who is kept on the payroll out of loyalty."
Greenwood said Thom Yorke ('started out as our meth dealer and took the mike for a lark') was a 'mad bastard' back in the early days, "always with a ciggie and a pint in his hand, and he'd head-butt anyone, anytime... that's how he got that wonky eye."
Johnny Greenwood, the mercurial guitar genius of the Oxford group, was struck by lightning three times in the nineties and twice again in the 2000s, and according to Yorke was 'still mad for it' after fortuitously escaping a drunk driver crashing into his home last week because he was in the studio at the time.
