{"id":488923,"date":"2026-03-22T07:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488923\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:51:18","slug":"the-haunted-english-house-where-radiohead-recorded-ok-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488923\/","title":{"rendered":"The haunted English house where Radiohead recorded ‘OK Computer’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"How<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still \/ Radiohead \/ Tom Sheehan)<\/p>\n

Sat 21 March 2026 12:00, UK <\/p>\n

Radiohead<\/a> are one of the prestigious few to have headlined Glastonbury more than once. In fact, they are one of the prestigious few to have done it three times, joining Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Van Morrison and Elvis Costello in the esteemed club. <\/p>\n

So the Oxford band are well acquainted with the rolling green hills of Somerset<\/a>, having trotted onto its hallowed turf a near unprecedented three times to play on its most prized stage. But how well acquainted are they with what exists outside the daunting realms of Glastonbury\u2019s high-security walled fences? <\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to tell where on the stardom spectrum Radiohead lie. On one end are the likes of Kanye West and Beyonce, whose trip across the Atlantic to headline Glastonbury<\/a> isn\u2019t usually tailed off with a midnight wander into the stone circle to find drug-fuelled enlightenment with the remaining wanderers of the festival\u2019s general public. At the other end is Florence Welch, who wasted no time in heading to the festival\u2019s notorious South East Corner following her headline set, where she got down and dirty with the peasant folk who had just been watching her.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d imagine Radiohead are somewhere in the middle \u2013 willing to grab a warm cider post set, but wasting little time in doing so and will likely hop in their A-class taxi with haste, to hit the warm welcome of their hotel bed. <\/p>\n

Because the truth is, the Oxford band don\u2019t need to explore the grassy depths of Glastonbury\u2019s home county. Back in 1997, they got to know it pretty well as they recorded their seminal 1997 record OK Computer<\/a> there, in St Catherine\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a>(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n

The 16th century manor house, located just outside Bath, has become an unlikely creative hub in its more recent years, hosting the recording of Radiohead\u2019s iconic album, while also playing host to The Cure for their recording of Wild Mood Swings, as well as New Order\u2019s Waiting for the Sirens\u2019 Call.<\/p>\n

But while Radiohead\u2019s iconic \u201897 album largely deals with existentialism in the modern, digital world, the ancient Somerset relic in which they recorded it provoked a sort of crisis of another kind. <\/p>\n

Yorke recalled, \u201cGhosts would talk to me while I was asleep. There was one point where I got up in the morning after a night of hearing voices and decided I had to cut my hair.\u201d <\/p>\n

He added, \u201cI was basically catatonic. The claustrophobia \u2013 just having no sense of reality at all. I was getting into the sense of information overload, which is ironic, really, since it\u2019s so much worse now.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued to explain how his experiences in that 16th-century building translated into the modern observations that populated the lyrics of the album. He explained, \u201cThe paranoia I felt at the time was much more related to how people related to each other. But I was using the terminology of technology to express it. Everything I was writing was actually a way of trying to reconnect with other human beings when you\u2019re always in transit. That\u2019s what I had to write about because that\u2019s what was going on, which in itself instilled a kind of loneliness and disconnection.\u201d<\/p>\n

The West Country county undoubtedly brings with it some conflicted feelings for the band, who have conquered the musical mountain there, from both a live and studio standpoint. But beneath it is a sinister reality that fuelled one of the greatest albums of all time, meaning it\u2019s unlikely the band will ever rush back to record there.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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