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With Radiohead's Philip Selway

Mary Anne Hobbs talks to Radiohead drummer and solo artist Philip Selway about his childhood, the early days of Radiohead and finding his own voice.

No alarms and no surprises. Settle into a lovely, intimate chat between Mary Anne Hobbs and Philip Selway (Radiohead drummer and, latterly, a sublime solo artist).

Philip has been behind the Radiohead drumkit for thirty years and eight albums. In 2008 Gigwise voted him the 26th drummer of all time.

Philip is a musician who possesses a rare grace and class. Aside from Radiohead he has collaborated with Jarvis Cocker, Neil Finn, Richard Thompson and Kate Rusby. His second solo album Weatherhouse is released in October via Bella Union.

In this revealing interview he talks about childhood, the early days of Radiohead, and finding his own voice for the first time.

3 hours

Last on

Sat 30 Aug 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Radiohead

    There There

    • Parlophone.
  • Jenny Lewis

    She's Not Me

    • The Voyager.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Elvis Costello

    Pump It Up

    • IMP Records.
  • DELS

    Fall Apart

    • Petals Have Fallen.
    • Big Dada.
    • 001.
  • Funkadelic

    One Nation Under A Groove

    • Virgin.
  • Portishead

    Numb

  • Puzzle Muteson

    River Women

    • Theatrics.
    • Bedroom Community.
  • Television

    Prove It

    • ELEKTRA.
  • First Aid Kit

    Stay Gold

    • Columbia.
  • Zap Pow

    This Is Reggae Music

    • Island.
  • Simian Mobile Disco

    Tangents

    • Anti-.
  • Jessie Ware

    If You're Never Gonna Move

    • PMR Records.
  • Kate Bush

    Cloudbusting

    • A Time To Remember: 1985.
    • EMI.
  • The Slits

    I Heard It Through The Grapevine

    • Island.
  • Jungle

    The Heat

    • Jungle.
    • XL.
    • 001.
  • Sunriser

    • Ben Howard

      End Of The Affair

  • Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

    Peaches En Regalia

    • Rykodisc.
  • Woman’s Hour

    In Stillness We Remain

    • Conversations.
    • Secretly Canadian.
  • The Strokes

    Is This It

  • Liars

    Brats - Marc Riley Session 140612

  • Interpol

    All The Rage Back Home

    • El Pintor.
    • Soft Limit.
    • 001.
  • Grandaddy

    A.M. 180

    • Big Cat Records.
  • Kate Bush

    The Dreaming

    • EMI.
  • Augustines

    Weary Eyes

    • Augustines.
    • Votic/Caroline.
  • Radiohead

    2+2=5

    • Parlophone.
  • Key Of Life

    Philip Selway: Early Life

  • The Clash

    Rock The Casbah

    • Columbia.
  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Stand

    • Universal.
  • Sinkane

    How We Be

    • Mean Love.
    • City Slang.
    • 001.
  • George the Poet

    If The Shoe Fits

  • Suede

    Lazy

  • Key Of Life

    Philip Selway: The Beginnings of Radiohead

  • Talking Heads

    Radio Head

    • EMI.
  • Perfume Genius

    Queen

    • Too Bright.
    • Turnstile.
  • Prince Buster

    One Step Beyond

    • Virgin.
  • Death From Above 1979

    Trainwreck 1979

    • Last Gang Records/Caroline/Fiction.
  • Key Of Life

    Philip Selway: Answers to Listeners' Questions

  • Radiohead

    All I Need

  • Otis Redding

    I Can't Turn You Loose

    • Atlantic.
  • X‐Ray Spex

    I'm A Poser - BBC Session 20/02/1978

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Futurology

    • Futurology.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.
  • Song for Huey

    • Leonard Cohen

      Almost Like The Blues

      • CD Single.
      • Columbia/Sony Music.

Broadcast

  • Sat 30 Aug 2014 07:00