The Jericho Tavern – Oxford

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The Zodiac – Oxford

Now called the O2 Academy Oxford, when we played this club it felt like a step up from the Jericho. We filmed the video for Creep in there in 1992, playing two shows: the morning one was an all-ages show with 11-year-olds pogoing and their parents stood against the wall waiting for them to go home, and the later show in the evening had an older crowd. We went on a US tour after that video came out. As it was on heavy rotation, it felt like everywhere we went there was a little bit of Oxford with us.



9:30 Club – Washington

Some of my favourite Radiohead memories aren't just from our British tours, but playing around the world. The 9.30 was round the back of the theatre where Lincoln was shot and it's a really famous gig venue which isn't there anymore, sadly. It's where all the straight-edge bands such as Black Flag and Fugazi used to play and it's really tiny. I remember there were rats running over the pipes and our sound engineer said it was one of the best-sounding gigs we'd ever played.

Moles – Bath



We played Moles just after we recorded our first record. For some reason it was one of the few occasions where we decided to have a drink before we played, and we were so bad that our manager was watching and denied knowing who we were when people came up to him and asked. We got a proper dressing down afterwards. But that can happen sometimes, when you make a record and head out to perform it live: you think you know it really well but you have to learn it all over again.

Radiohead before the arenas. Photograph: Karen Mason Blair/Corbis Photograph: Karen Mason Blair/ Karen Mason Blair/CORBIS

The Tivoli Venue – Buckley







• Colin Greenwood was talking to Harriet Gibsone