Kieran Hebden, AKA Four Tet, has revealed that he was an extra in the music video for Radiohead's seminal classic "Creep." The London-based electronic producer revealed the details of his 1993 cameo as part of the thrashing mass of moshers in the now-iconic video in a conversation with BBC 6 Music's Gilles Peterson during a special episode about Hebden's career entitled "Worlds and Music With Four Tet." It's pretty much impossible to discern the artist's silhouette from the others in the video's crowd, but try to spot him in the video anyway, below.
The three-hour Four Tet retrospective aired this past weekend and you can listen to it here. Hebden joins Peterson about 35 minutes in.
As Pitchfork recounts, the conversation covers countless milestones in the electronic producer's career ranging from kicking off his musical career with the still-active post rock band Fridge to that time J Dilla remixed "As Serious As You Are" and every collaboration in-between. The "Creep" video cameo comes up when Hebden discusses Radiohead's invitation to open for them during their 2003 tour: "I got invited to go on tour with Radiohead. They were absolutely huge and I'd been a fan since the Drill EP had come out. I'm in the video for 'Creep' in the audience. I followed them really closely from the very beginning. And I was being asked to open for them because they were fans of the record, and it made me think, live electronic music, I should get into that."
As Stereogum points out, this means that the producer has been a Radiohead superfan before most people even knew of the band, and that he must have been only 15 when he was an extra in the "Creep" video. That only makes it all the more interesting that he caught Thom Yorke's ear a decade after he was in the room for one of the most important moments of the band's timeline; the two have worked together and remixed one another numerous times in the years since. Listen to Four Tet's remix of "Skttrbrain" below.
