Comedian Limmy Covers Radiohead’s ‘Creep’, Jonny Greenwood Responds

September 11, 2022

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has responded to a viral cover of ‘Creep’ by Scottish comedian Limmy. The brief cover, released late last week, has been viewed over 650k times in the last three days.

As NME reports, Limmy shared his reworking of Radiohead’s 1992 breakthrough single on Twitter on 8th September. Limmy has discarded the guitar-heavy instrumentation of the original in favour of upbeat synths, supplanting its heartfelt sentiment with something far more artificial.

Jonny Greenwood responds to Limmy’s cover of ‘Creep’:

There’s still no emoji to express my – very complicated – emotional reaction to this. https://t.co/QBzfVkqspP

— Jonny Greenwood (@JnnyG) September 8, 2022

Greenwood later took to Twitter to comment on the cover, noting that “there’s still no emoji to express my – very complicated – emotional reaction to this.” When Limmy responded with a party popper emoji, Greenwood added; “Hadn’t seen that one – yes, that’s how it makes me feel.”

Limmy has been a consistent figure of the UK comedy scene for nearly two decades. Having previously starred in Limmy’s Show and Limmy’s Other Stuff, in recent years he’s pivoted to online platforms such as Twitch where he boasts 432k followers. Limmy has gained recognition for his varied covers of famous songs, including the likes of Avril Lavigne’s ‘Sk8r Boi’ and Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’.

Recently, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien shared an update on the group’s current status, addressing the fact they have been semi-dormant since 2018 and noting that, in essence, “there’s no Radiohead at the moment”.

“We love one another. We’re brothers. We probably will play together,” he said “It could be that it doesn’t happen. I’m sure it will do. I’m almost certain that it will do. But you’ve got to also be able to be fine with it not happening again.”