Meeting People Is Easy
Promo video.
Grant Gee: "a bunch of articulate, essentially shy people who, somehow, are able to create this huge, astonishing, music and as a result find themselves in the strange/insane/seductive world of end-of-the-century-celebrity with thousands of people wanting to meet them, thousands of cameras and microphones constantly siphoning off little bits of them."
Grant Gee (who made the No Surprises video) spent a year on "Meeting people Is Easy" presents a view from the inside looking out. Includes performances in Barcelona, Paris, New York, and Tokyo, as well as the beginnings of new material. Having been meeting people for six and a half years solidly, Radiohead have taken a long and well earned break. NME interviewed director Grant Gee after seeing the film, a dazzling collision of treated film stocks which follows the band on tour in the year after the release of 'OK Computer'. The film, released on video on Monday 30 November, details the debilitating effects of mass adulation and a harrowing work schedule on Radiohead. Reflecting the album's themes of distancing through technology, its highlight include preview of songs in progress, Thom Yorke in abject boredom at an American show as the crowd sing 'Creep' and Colin Greenwood squirming and apologising as he admits to succumbing to the pressures of fame whilst talking to NME's Ted Kessler. "It's basically a film put together of a thousand bits," says Grant Gee. "I don't watch much music television. The only rock films I like are the (Bob Dylan documentary) 'Don't Look Back', 'Cocksucker Blues' (unreleased Rolling Stones film) and REM's 'Tourfilm'." Although he was present at the premiere he didn't actually watch the screening: "The last time I went to a premiere of mine I felt so sick I almost passed out".
