Miranda Sawyer

So you were going out to all these mad places.

Towards the end of the 90s, it was like the Met Bar and all these quite swanky kind of joints, weren't they?

Yeah, you could definitely make some kind of like, there's a playlist to be made.

Even the second coming.

I have to say that even though Stale Fox, like, obviously, worships Be Here Now and doesn't really understand OK Computer, there is a really beautiful piece of writing that you did in Kill Your Friends about him hearing Radiohead play...

Glastonbury 97, which was a notoriously very, very rainy Glastonbury, like apocalyptic.

Radiohead go on.

They play absolutely brilliantly, but they hate every minute of it.

Tom York halfway through says to Ed, that's it, I'm off.

Halfway through the gig.

But for the audience, it was completely transformative.

And your writing about it for Stealth Fox is wonderful.

Like, I have to say, it's really beautiful.

He basically says...

white light washes over the crowd you can see the raindrops billions of them suspended in the light above us and I realise we're watching Radiohead and he's singing Rain Down and I don't like Radiohead because I don't know what they want but it's really beautiful and Darren turns to me and I think he's crying and maybe you're not alone in the universe and for a moment there I lose myself that is what it was like

It was very muddy, yes.

It was a terrible rain year.

Yeah.

Did you get rolled in the oil drum anymore?

Quite the time.