Some breaking news coming in now and it seems Radiohead weren’t big fans of the mid-90s Britpop scene.
In an interview with Rolling Stone as it was revealed he would be opening for his own band on their European tour, guitarist Jonny Greenwood dismissed Britpop for its nostalgic foundations, while frontman Thom Yorke added that it ‘made him angry’.
“To us, Britpop was just a 1960s revival,” he said. “It just leads to pastiche. It’s you wishing it was another era. But as soon as you go down that route, you might as well be a Dixieland jazz band, really,” while Yorke said:
“The whole Britpop thing made me angry. I hated it. It was backwards-looking, and I didn’t want any part of it.”
It’ll be Greenwood’s side project Junun which backs Radiohead on dates in Oslo, Stockholm, Florence, Dublin, Manchester, and Tel Aviv.