Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood in conversation with Gareth Evans 

I find this fascinating: it’s the ongoing and heroic struggle Thom has worked though for his entire career: how to be a thoughtful “artist” while making music for popular culture. Stanley has helped him stay firmly connected to the “serious artist” - I think his partners have done the same - but in the end he has to figure out how to reconcile many opposing forces: identifying with posh companies like Christie’s while holding ideologies counter to the “rich and powerful” winners of capitalism, making serious art while making products to be comsumed in exchange for big money - I love the way this has informed his art, and the ways he shares this struggle with his audience.

I live Cornwall & have spent ages walking around the coast listening to Kid A so to hear that they spent time here doing the same thing whilst making it is amazing. Brings a new dimension to listening to the album now!

I haven’t listened to Kid A. Just this year, discovered the Radiohead rabbit hole and still falling through it’s layers- beautiful yet daunting. So much to assimilate! I’m even watching bits where musicians/ engineers are showing how to set up the 5/4 time signatures that Radiohead uses in most songs-I don’t read music but am intrigued by their ballooning use of electronics..I’ve watched several bits about Stanley & Thom’s artistic collaboration. It must be nice to be so artistically gifted!! It’s Radiohead’s world-we’re JUST lucky to be in their presence.

when thom said he would endlessly play the riff to everything in its right place attempting to meditate his way out of not feeling the music :0

Thank you for feeling for us during the war we had in Yugoslavia, for remembering it and speaking of it here and making music that speaks of the mad society we live in.

Omg how Tom describes creative processes it give me chills! It resonates so much with me on so many levels. He is explaining the flow state of making art which is an art in itself!

The first few chords of Kid A still put tingles up my spine.

Such legends. Thank you Christie's for giving us this video and thank you Thom and Stanley for the glorious art you've been giving for thirty plus years.

I identify with their process, the influence of music on my art and vice versa is a major driver for me too. Love what they do, so thanks for this

Thank you for this. I love when "the Radiohead project" peels back the curtain and we learn more about the processes of how they create. I think these talks will be watched for generations as people go back to this work. There are few events in music history as significant as the Kid A/Amnesia era, and having this conversation is another treasure for future time capsules.

This interview, from the moment Thom and Stanley pop up on screen to the end, is 47 minutes and 16 seconds long. Kid A on Spotify, front to back, runs 47 minutes and 11 seconds. Just in case you thought it was a bit quiet...

This was not the Gareth Evans, writer, film producer that I was expecting. I thought it would be the guy that directed The Raid!

thom yorke came through with the collar popped i love this man

Thom looks really good. Fascinating interview and Thom and Stanley have matching glasses.

3:22 To where Thom and Stanley come in.

I’m really enjoying al the Kid A / Amnesiac nostalgia. Those records defined me as a teenager. I never loved a band as much as I loved Radiohead when I was young. They taught me so much about society and the environment and provided so many musical experiences. My favourite band was and always will be Radiohead because of how much they meant to me and my mates all those years ago✌️

I like how Radiohead's artwork uses computer software to create digital art and I think that added to their music from The Bends era onwards and accompanies well the increased presence of electronic music in their output particularly Kid A :)

There is an important lesson here i think. they might not agree with me at all, but i'd like to think that radiohead's involvement with the visual accompaniment might have been born out of "necessity", but they quickly realised a higher potential and power of it, and by the time of Kid A / Amnesiac the visual side might have saved them from breakdown, and propelled them to new places. Music and picture require a different mindset and either can be great source of inspiration if one feels stuck and in need of a fresh eye/ear. Music has the dimension of time, while you need to give the time to an image to make it come alive.

The entire interview was enjoyable. One suggestion, would of been nice to see the actual paintings/art work. Other than that, I’m very excited for the remaster of these two great albums.

I love the sound of the faxcimile machine! Gentlemen, your geniuses are so inspiring… words cannot express my gratitude for you all. Thank you

Thom, you're a real artist, don't be silent about what is happening.

I really like this new interviews with Stanley, as a young artist i really look up to what he says about his creative process, especially about Radiohead's artwork because it was/is such a big referent for me. And i like listening to Thom talking about that art too and how he use it to create mixtures and connections with his music.

If I had one wish, it would be to have a nice long lunch with Thom. I find him fascinating that he can produce such beautiful music and sings with an amazing angelic voice. 💖🎸

The bears are still the most frightening and duplicitous characters of modern time. They upset people beyond belief.

Such enjoyable conversation. Trying to comprehend they're ideas help me more than actually know what they did. Cheers from Argentina

♥️I love Thom♥️

Brilliant people and a brilliant two albums.

Who also noticed that Thom and Stanley wearing the same glasses.

Thom has aged with grace

thanks to all ,had such a interesting, joyfull and heart warming time,love Sylvia...

This was wonderfully educational.

i can relate to what Stanley is saying about ex Yugoslavia being from eastern Ukraine during russian aggresion\occupation in 2014 and hearing mortars shells landing around your childhood home and it's surreal, you just think this is not possible all these horrors should be lost somewhere in the past centuries

Such a great interview.

Unfortunate how the interviewer keeps interrupting them mid-story to try and keep with his Q-card agenda. He could have let them speak, after all, we’re all here for them as they are the creatives.

Wonderful dialog. Thank you.

thanks for the upload!

Thom has such a dad vibe in this interview lol

I think I've got this year's later ,nevertheless I am luckily supprised by them ,precious souls and I feel a person out of the attic which was able to still hear this somehow, love Sylvia. ..

Love you Thom thank you for being you🙏🙏♥️♥️💎💎

Really, Really, REALLY. Enjoyed this :)

Great interview!

man started the interview spitting bars

Smart grounded people.. Thom reminds me of Brian Eno these days, not sure why.

This video is exquisitely lit.

Would love to see what Thom looks like clean shaved now. He just looks so much like my dad now and I'm 35.

thank you for this

Are the fax messages on purpose in this interview? Because it was Kid A era.

I wish you’d used coasters with those glasses on that lovely table

Stanley: "I just wanted to delete it..... good job we didn't" classic :)

Gods amongst we mortals

I miss the old Thom Yorke, the OKC - Kid A one. I'm going through a lot right now. Thanks for being there. Every day I try not to kill myself.

44:25 Oasis😂

Love the insight

From 31:06 on is quite remarkable stuff...thanks for this

Imagine Thom Yorke playing Wonderwall… now that’s scary!

Jesus a three minute intro?!!

Fantastic interview. Have to admit it seems odd that Thom signs up for this Christie's thing as a way to auction work, doesn't seem to fit with Kid A at all for some reason. I'm probably on my own here though.

I hope against hope that these two - in their big dark-rimmed glasses - can find some measure of joy in expressing their creativity. Unless of course it would result in a less-than-perfect end product!

Even better with Thom Yorke live from the basement behind ^^

If you focus for long enough, the host will slowly morph into Dr House

KiD A : Amnesiac really changed the World history! Never expire

"It's doing that thing... Press start!"

video starts at 3:20

Man...I love the British accent

Cornwall!❤

legendary

Great insight from Tom and Stanley. Fun Fact, they are both wearing similar glasses to what i am wearing watching. They have lights each side that can be turned on enabling you to have 2 torches. Only problem mine dont work, i have an exact same 2nd pair, bought as a pair with 16 batteries, spare for each pair as they take 2 each side. Both are broken with usage, the metal connections are weak and fragile, that is what i found. Dug out box the other day, as want a new pair, purchased via mail order.

i need to know the brand of eyewear of theirs

Nice gold scarf

Can't watch this because of the fax machine noise

Aw man I was well into Jenny Holzer at college

If someone were to tell me he’s Rivers Cuomo brother I’d believe it

from nowhere to nowhere..with sunglasses

Guys wearing the same glasses always have a similar vision

Where are you? 😆

Why is there a giant phone/fax combo machine on the table?

What's the point, hardly rich enough to buy at an auction. This is probably the first thing ever I've not fully been behind that any members of radiohead have done.

what, matching glasses now?

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3:20 You're welcome.

“Art…more like fart” lol jk this was a neat video

Thom reminds me of ODIN. the norse god bcuz of that eye that looks like prostethic.

Awful intro; too long, he even has the time to say something like "my wonderful guests" four times before starting the conversation.

that beard!

Gareth, you talked too much!!!!!! enough

I can’t help but notice Gareth Evans’ black fingernails. Chieftain Mews confirmed?? 🧐

Not the Gareth Evans i thought lol oops

FUN

Explorer II polar :)

Are they taking questions via FAX? Lol.

thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom

I know these cats must be more interesting than this. But this conversation is dreadfully dull. I will look for another interview.

W

Tom YOrp

How times change. Now they are working for the enablers of the Gucci piggies.

MK Ultra images and themes.

This host is immensely pretentious and obnoxious .. just a few minutes in

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too many words mate, chill the f out