IF YOU’RE going to do the hippy chick thing, you may as well do it properly. So I’ve been concentrating on my homework. Tomorrow we leave for Glastonbury, and what with Radiohead topping the bill on Saturday night, I thought I’d better familiarise myself first with their new album.
It’s funny how we make the same mistake again and again and fail to learn, isn’t it? In this case it was a combination of open-mindedness and naive optimism that led me to believe that, just because I hated Radiohead’s supposedly seminal OK Computer (voted the best album ever by readers of Q magazine) didn’t mean that I would also dislike the new Hail to the Thief. Perhaps the band would have changed their musical style