
Radiohead – Meeting People Is Easy
Radiohead spend the whole of 1997 on the road promoting OK Computer, and this film assembles the tour into a collage of concert footage, tour-bus downtime, and blunt sound bites rather than a conventional band profile. The run starts on 22 May in Barcelona and ends 104 shows later at New York's Radio City Music Hall, and the footage tracks the distance between those two nights: early enthusiasm giving way to visible exhaustion, terse interviews, and a band that seems to be souring on the very machinery of promotion it is caught inside. There is no narrator smoothing the material into a story; scenes of soundchecks, press junkets, and backstage boredom sit next to each other with little context, which is itself the point, since the film is as interested in the grind of touring and media exposure as in the music. By the end, the footage reads less like a celebration of a landmark album than a document of what a year of nonstop performance does to the people making it.