For much of his professional life, Ed O’Brien has stood to the right of Thom Yorke, on stage with Radiohead. Whether in the early days, when O’Brien played guitar, or the experimental era, when it was guitar and various buttons, there he stood, with singer Yorke and multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood, in order at the front, rhythm section behind — a tight unit of five schoolfriends who, 35 years ago, formed what would become the most interesting band in the world.
This month O’Brien is releasing his first solo album, Earth, under the acronym/alias EOB. In Toronto, just before gigs became a bad idea, he played his first live show as a frontman. He is a football fan, so I ask: did it feel like
