I’m sure anyone that’s listened to the work over the years would be familiar with the swooping and pitch-bending sounds of my Space Echo. I just have never been able to part with it despite it not actually working properly for more than 10 years. I’m reticent to get it fixed because every time I use it, it just does something magical. Every now and then when you’re using it, the tape stops, and you know when it stops, it doesn’t just stop, it pitches down, like someone turned the power off. And though you can start the tape going again, the number of times it’s stopped in a musical spot and with a magic bit of wow and flutter, I can’t justify getting it repaired! I’ve just hung on to my Space Echo and I don’t know if I’ll ever sell it. You’ll see in the picture there’s some white bits of tape on it. That is from when Radiohead were in Melbourne and hired it on the ‘Hail to the Thief’ album tour, where they did two shows. That white tape are Johnny Greenwood’s settings, and I’ve never taken them off.
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