Meeting People Is Easy (1998)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Grant Gee

Release Date:

20 March 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Music

Plot:

An entertaining "rockumentary" about Radiohead that shows some of the tedium of being a rock star, as well as some of the fun stuff. |

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Thom Yorke	...	Himself (as Radiohead)
Jonny Greenwood	...	Himself / Radiohead
Ed O'Brien	...	Himself / Radiohead
Colin Greenwood	...	Himself / Radiohead
Phil Selway	...	Himself / Radiohead
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Sailer	...	Himself / Interviewing Journalist In Barcelona
Dirk Siepe	...	Himself / Interviewing Journalist In Barcelona

Also Known As:

Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy

Runtime:

Australia:95 min | USA:99 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Certification:

Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Kudos Productions Ltd.

Quotes:

Thom Yorke: You know, last year we were the most hyped band. It's bollocks!

Movie Connections:

Features "Late Show with David Letterman" (1993)

Soundtrack:

On your own again

More about the media attention than the music.

"Meeting people is easy" is a pretty good documentary of Radiohead's OK Computer world tour. It abruptly begins with concerts (bits and pieces), photo shoots, behind the scenes and interviews with the media through Europe, USA, Japan, Australia and ends back the UK where you hear them recording music for their next 2 albums (Kid A and Amnesiac).

Its not really a coherent documentary, with scenes cutting back & forth and some arty stuff chucked in for the sake of it, but this DVD shows the media attention and coverage they received, all because of their highly regarded album OK Computer... they were the in band at the time.

From this the stress and tension builds up throughout the world tour and we clearly see them getting emotionally drained.

You get to hear them playing bits of new and unfinished music which would be later added onto there next 2 albums, but don't just expect live performances (as there is hardly any). They're a band that's not afraid to experiment with their music. Though this DVD is more about their experiences throughout the tour, then that of their music.

Some people might have found this boring but I actually quite enjoyed it. It would've been great to get some full length live performances than that of small snippets (though there is good full length performance at the end) but I found the media's attention towards Radiohead and how it was eating them up, very interesting indeed.

4.5/5