"[My grief] was coming out in ways that made me think, I need to take this away,"
"There have been points in my life where I have looked for solace in music and played the piano, but it literally hurts. Physically. The music hurts, because you're going through trauma."
"It wasn't great on the last round. I enjoyed the gigs but hated the rest. We felt disconnected, fucking spent. It happens. This has been our whole life - what else is there? Look, success has a funny effect on people - I just didn't want to do it any more. And I told them that ."
"I had a deep depression. I hit the bottom in 2021. And one of the things that was lovely coming out of it was realizing how much I love these guys. I met them when I was 17 and I have gone from thinking I can't see myself doing it again to realizing that, you know, we do have some stellar songs."
Radiohead will tour next month, marking the band's first dates in seven years. The band paused after 2018 due to personal and collective strain, including Thom Yorke's unresolved grief after his wife's 2016 death and the physical pain of making music. Ed O'Brien described feeling effectively finished with the band, suffering deep depression and hitting bottom in 2021 before recovering and rediscovering his love for his bandmates. Yorke supplied a 65-song list for nightly setlists and the shows will be staged in the round. The band also addressed the possibility of new music and recent controversy around political comments and associations.
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