signed six-album contract with EMI

In late 1991, Colin happened to meet the EMI A&R representative Keith Wozencroft at a record shop and handed him a copy of the demo. Wozencroft was impressed and attended a performance. That November, On a Friday performed at the Jericho Tavern to an audience that included several A&R representatives. It was only their eighth gig, but they had attracted interest from several record companies. A Melody Maker review praised their promise and “astonishing intensity”, but said their name was “terrible”. On 21 December, On a Friday signed a six-album recording contract with EMI. At EMI’s request, they changed their name; “Radiohead” was taken from the song “Radio Head” on the Talking Heads album True Stories (1986). Yorke said the name “sums up all these things about receiving stuff … It’s about the way you take information in, the way you respond to the environment you’re put in.”