Radiohead Interview about the Music Videos for The Bends, with Soundclash in Japan - April 1997

A 1997 Radiohead interview with the Japanese show Soundclash, which was likely in April because some other Japanese interviews happened at that time. So, OK Computer wasn’t out yet, but it would be in a couple of months.

The opening song is “Dead Man Walking” by David Bowie, which had just come out on April 14th, 1997.

0:00 - “Dead Man Walking” by David Bowie

They then talk about the music videos for these songs:

0:24 - High and Dry
2:43 - Fake Plastic Trees
3:53 - Just
4:37 - Street Spirit

Thom sounds like he has a cold, and Jonny seems to have one too while serving the camera a lot of looks (2:25). The band as a whole seems really tired and jetlagged. Thom rearranges his whole neck at 4:38 and freaks Colin out.

Please turn on the subtitles for the English parts if you get lost, because I didn’t slave over a hot laptop on that for it to be unused…

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Normally I would edit an interview more, but I decided to keep it similar to the source. All I did was trim it to its length, fix a broken frame around 1:59 (where it gets darker for a second), and slightly increase the volume.

I got it from the middle of the video that was put here:

https://archive.org/details/Radiohead...

(It should be the one labeled “VTS 08 1” further down that is 28:33 long)

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