Comedian Adam Buxton has given some revealing insights of life in "intense" Oxford band Radiohead.
An award winning comedian, Adam Buxton currently hosts a side splitting 6Music show with his partner in crime Joe Cornish. Both are huge music fans, with the pair recently releasing an album of spoof material titled 'Song Wars Volume 2'.
Taken from their cult show, the material lampoons several high profile acts. However the pair are also close friends with Radiohead, who even invited Adam Buxton to craft the unsettling video to 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place'.
Speaking to the British Comedy Guide, Adam Buxton revealed some secrets of life behind closed doors...
"Radiohead have a reputation for being quite an intense and serious bunch but people don't realise exactly how intense they are. On the occasions that Garth (Jennings) and I have worked with them in their studio outside Oxford, the intensity was so intense that bulbs would often blow spontaneously and toast would get burned after only a few seconds in the toaster" he revealed.
"Here's what you tend to see in the studio: Jonny and Colin Greenwood write heartbreaking poetry and talk about third-world debt all the time. Ed O'Brien is so obsessed by Nietzsche that he now only speaks German and wears what looks like a small Tim Burgess wig on his upper lip as a tribute to his unhappy philosopher hero."
Continuing, Adam Buxton revealed that drummer turned solo artist Phil Selway is a religious fanatic. "Phil Selway is in the process of tattooing the whole of the Koran all over his body as a statement about Islamophobia (in public he covers the tattoos with make-up so as not to offend Muslims). It's a project that has already taken years and will take many more to complete and he is in constant pain, which is evident in his face when he's drumming."
Finally, Thom Yorke is apparently a sensitive soul. "Thom just sits in a corner crying and ranting about climate change. He is undoubtedly the most intense in the band but he's not averse to the occasional bit of clowning. Once, when he knew we were watching, he pretended to put a plastic water bottle in the non-recycling bin! We laughed and laughed then he started crying again so we stopped laughing and things went back to being very tense."
Read the entire interview HERE.