FULL NAME: Jonathan
Richard Guy Greenwood.
BIRTH: November 5, 1972.
INSTRUMENT: Lead guitar, organ, synthesizer, piano,
recorder, sound effects.
EDUCATION: Abingdon School; began course in psychology
at Oxford Poly.
PREVIOUS JOBS: None.
KEY WORDS: Funny, erudite, impatient, splint, fringe.
FAVE MUSIC: Past influences - Jazz, Miles Davis, Elvis
Costello.
Current faves - Mo'Wax, Can, Pink Floyd's Meddle.
FAVE MOVIES/TV/BOOKS: "Prick Up Your Ears",
"Going For Gold', "Generation X', "The Imperfect Art".
LIKES: Buying records, walking, touring, Lee Morgan.
DISLIKES: Buying compact discs, driving, recording,
Derek Nimmo.
INFLUENCES: Frank Black, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan.
OTHER: Hardly drinks. Married. Known as "the
dreamer" at school. Likes buying clothes. Wrote The Tourist, the final
track on OK Computer.
Other band members said:
[Colin] "He's got an
environmentally-friendly stunt kite!"
[Colin] "Jonny made us all watch Pink Floyd At Pompeii and said, 'This is
how we should do videos.'"
[Thom] "He likes having as many instruments as possible in his
corner."
[Phil] "He's completely colourblind. Apparently when they were kids Colin
used to change the paints around in their paint boxes and Jonny would end up
with all these disturbing pictures."
Other things about Jonny:
- Jonny rewires his guitars to get the wonderful sounds in most of the songs.
- He also likes to invent new instruments and wants to have as many instruments
as possible in his little corner of the stage.
- Jonny is very shy and he likes to hide in hotel rooms.
- He loves to fly kites when it's windy out.
- He also loves record shopping and Colin has also been recently seen doing the
same.
- He enjoys crossword puzzles, but don't give him any as he already has tons.
A Description of Jonny from Jim Irvin's review of a
Radiohead gig in Barcelona's Zeleste Club [Mojo]:
"Only Jonny -a chronic upstager - makes a point of leaving his post.
Wearing a surgical wrist splint to ease RSI, he slashes merry hell out of
several guitars, using them as effects generators as much as conduits for a
melody. Sometimes he'll unleash a particularly wayward sound and have to tear
across the stage after it. Either that or he's constantly fiddling with various
stage-level devices that require him to bend in two and suddenly pop into the
spotlight just as Thom's coming to a good bit. When the guitars have been
discarded, he can make a meal out of even the simplest keyboard part, apparently
using his entire, rangy body - from toe to bony finger - to depress a single
note. He even steals our attention when he's not there. On one occasion, we hear
an electric piano being cuffed but can't see who's responsible. A dim spotlight
slowly comes on at the rear of the stage and Jonny's revealed, giving it the
full Phantom Of The Opera and flinging his lustrous bangs about. Most touching
of all is the moment when a burly roadie delivers a small item on a stand to his
corner. It's a glockenspiel. And Jonny proceeds to attack it like he's Paganini
Emerson, dark prince of tinkly things."
