Overview
- On Thursday, July 9, Ed O’Brien made the instrumental 'Abbeycwmhir' available digitally after it had been issued only as a seven-inch vinyl B-side.
- 'Abbeycwmhir' comes from sessions for O’Brien’s May album Blue Morpho and takes its name from a village in the Nant Clywedog valley in Powys, Wales.
- O’Brien will promote Blue Morpho with an October European and UK run billed as 'An Evening With… Blue Morpho,' featuring collaborators Dave Okumu and ESKA.
- He reiterated that Radiohead plans to limit live activity to about 20 shows a year on a rotating-continent model and said solo releases, including a Thom Yorke album, can coexist with the band.
- In recent interviews O’Brien offered nuanced public comments on the Israel–Palestine conflict, saying he had been 'hit by both sides,' calling October 7 a pogrom and describing Gaza as a genocide, and he stressed that Radiohead members hold a plurality of views.