“Ed O’Brien goes on a fantastic voyage for his solo debut”
“Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien proves himself the band’s secret weapon”
““Thom, Jonny and Phillip are all making their own music,” admits Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien of his bandmates’ extracurricular endeavours at the beginning of the bumf that accompanies the review copy of his debut solo album. “The last thing the world needs is a shit album by me.” While O’Brien has an irrefutable point, it’s both bold and strangely humble to admit as much by way of introduction”
““I’m not a Ronaldo or a Rooney: that’s Thom and Jonny,” said Radiohead’s second guitarist, Ed O’Brien, in 2008. “But in my dreams I’m a Paul Scholes.” Thirty-five years in the same band leaves a lot of dream time – particularly when your bandmates are on to their second or third acclaimed releases with various solo, soundtrack and side projects – and O’Brien’s debut album, worked on since 2012, fi”
