Weeing with Thom Yorke

Many moons ago, when I was just a stripling at Leicester University, I went along to the Charlotte Pub in Leicester for a gig by Dr Phibes and the Wax Equations, or it may have been Skunk Annaisie, I forget.

What I do remember is the support band, a little known group at the time named Radiohead.

I needed a piss and unwilling to queue to take a slash I popped upstairs to the lesser-known 'locals toilet'. Standing there at the urinal, knob in hand, I was joined by a strange looking fellow.

"Alright, how y'doing?"

"Yeah, OK. I'm here to see Radiohead. You?"

"I'm Thom, I'm the lead singer. See you down there".

"Will do"

What followed was an amazing gig. The only reason I knew Radiohead was from a song of theirs, 'Creep', which had been played by John Peel at the Glastonbury Festival. Amongst the mayhem of Glastonbury that song had stood out like a classic, enough for me to come and see them as a support band that night. Creep had not been released yet but I had made a point of buying a 12" version of their debut single 'Drill' which was not great but good enough to justify me being there that night.

A couple of months later and Radiohead were doing a record signing in a Leicester city centre record store. I took the morning off lectures and went along to get my copy of Drill and the newly released Creep signed by the band.

You know the rest of the story - Radiohead are now massive, and my signed copies of Drill and Creep are work a fucking mint. And the point of this laboured anecdote? Well, I just want you to check out this flash animation of Creep - the acoustic version used there is not as good because it doesn't have the booming, crunching feedback but it's still a cool little animation.