Radiohead dumper EMI - på tide!

Radiohead left EMI because Terra Firma CEO Guy Hands "doesn't understand the music industry", according to an interview with the band to be printed next week.

Talking to the Observer Music Monthly, Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien says that the band were keen to do a deal with the major, however negotiations broke down because Hands "didn't know what to offer us".

"EMI is in a state of flux," says O'Brien. "It's been taken over by somebody who's never owned a record company before, Guy Hands and Terra Firma, and they don't realise what they're dealing with.

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Radiohead ended their relationship with EMI in October, when the band signed a deal to release physical copies of seventh album In Rainbows through indie label XL in the UK.