Radiohead frontman, Thom Yorke said he was already sick of the band's album, 'OK Computer' by the time it was first released.
The singer spoke about this during a new chat with Harry Styles for Rolling Stone, where he stated that he was itching to "move on" from it by the time they embarked on their subsequent tour. This saw the band play over 100 shows as part of their world tour, dubbed 'Against Demons', which ran from May 1997 to April 1998, before it picked up again.
Yorke stated that while the album does remain one of their biggest releases, he felt that the "worst thing" about it for him was that he was tired of playing the song before the album was made available.
“When we finished that record, we’d been already playing those songs too much", Yorke said, before saying that the his manager also told him that they would have to then “go on tour for two years” to promote the album, he “literally begged them, [saying] ‘I can’t, I can’t do it. I need to move on".
On the tour, York then told Styles: “Two years later, we were still going. That was just really f***** up because the moving on thing is not a luxury. That’s entirely essential. You know? Everybody has their different ways of dealing with this. Personally, I rely on not doing it for too long… I wish I could do it for a long time. I can’t". (All quotes according to Rolling Stone).
Last month, Radiohead, who also include bandmembers Ed O’Brien, Philip Selway, and brothers Jonny and Colin Greenwood, alongside Yorke, announced a set of residency shows in Australia and Japan for next year. This includes 21 live dates across Perth, Melbourne and Sydney in Australia, followed by five shows in Saitama, Japan. More on this from Nova here.
