Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood joins the Rockonteurs
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, we welcome a hugely talented artist and (another) bassist to the show, it’s Colin Greenwood of Radiohead.
Colin is the very definition of a Rockonteur, as he talks about his early influences, the “make or break” early days of his band, a working with Nick Cave. He also talks to Gary and Guy about the recent live dates from Radiohead that were so well received, reminding us all of the unique position Radiohead have created as the best alternative rock act in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | If you like listening to Rockonteurs, then we would love you to subscribe to us permanently. So hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts from. Hello Gary. Hello, Guy. How are you? I'm all right. I've had a bit of a funny old week. I know I've talked about it on here before. You know, I started bell ringing in the village or learning how to bell ring at the church. I got asked to write an article about it for the oldie magazine. |
| 0:24.1 | Well, at least it's not a concept album. |
| 0:25.9 | Well, you never know, because it got picked up by the Sun, the Mail, the Times, the Telegraph, the Argus. |
| 0:32.4 | It's the biggest kind of media blitz I've ever had in my life. |
| 0:36.0 | Oh my God. BBC Sussex came down to bell practice on Monday. |
| 0:40.4 | What? |
| 0:41.3 | You ruined it for everyone, basically. |
| 0:43.3 | I have, yeah. |
| 0:44.4 | This quiet little village. |
| 0:47.1 | Exactly. |
| 0:47.7 | You are the partridge, mate, of the village. |
| 0:50.8 | And now they're all turning up with their cameras and their notepads |
| 0:54.2 | and you're going to be, they're going to hold you up actually. |
| 0:58.2 | You're going to be on G.B. News, aren't you? |
| 1:00.8 | As being like, you know, representing old school England. |
| 1:04.5 | That's right. |
| 1:05.4 | What did you say in the article? |
| 1:07.0 | Poster boy. |
| 1:08.8 | What did you say in the article? |
| 1:10.4 | The article, it was, well, you know, it was |
| 1:12.1 | just for the old year. It was for that audience. It was quite funny because Harry, the editor, |
| 1:16.5 | who I just met at some lunch, it was, what they wanted, the thing of rock star playing bells. |
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