On our return to the UK, we played several European festivals, culminating in two headline appearances at Galway, Ireland, and T in the Park, Glasgow. During this time, we set up our mobile recording studio back at Canned Applause, overseen by Nigel Godrich.
Nigel had engineered the Rak Studio sessions of The Bends, and co-produced with us a number of b-sides, notably "Talkshow Host" as well as the song "Lucky". This song was recorded in September 1995 for the Help album, a compilation released a week after its recording to raise funds and awareness for the charity 'Warchild' in Bosnia.
By July 1996, Canned Applause was set up for recording. It was the first time we had attempted to cut album tracks outside of a conventional studio environment.
Despite the experimental and unconventional setting, four songs from Canned Applause found their way onto the album.
The songs were "Subterranean Homesick Alien", "Electioneering", "The Tourist" and "No Surprises". This last song was, in fact, the first take from the first day of the Canned Applause sessions.
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In August 1996, we returned to America to tour with Alanis Morrisette, and again used it as an opportunity to play in new material.
Back home again in September, we moved our recording equipment from Canned Applause, and relocated to St Catherine's Court. Set in a secluded valley just outside Bath, it was the perfect environment to escape from any outside influences. We made much use of the various different rooms and atmospheres throughout the house, and our isolation from the outside world encouraged time to run at a different pace, making working hours more flexible and spontaneous.
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