Month: October 2001

Categories
GP

New GP News

You may have noticed a change in the layout and design of the news page. We have changed the way we will report the news by using new software (GreyMatter) that will make it much easier to produce news about Radiohead.

You may notice the search box to the left. That is new and you may find it useful to search for older news. As of now, all news before today are not searchable but are archived so you can view them. We hope to have those indexed to be searched very soon.

In the near future, we plan on offering GP visitors with PDAs (Palm, etc…) to view a special PDA-only version of GP news on their PDA. It’s still in the works and nothing has yet been set in stone. There should be some more news on this soon.

Categories
Radiohead

BBC Music Magazine

Radiohead were featured in this month’s BBC Music Magazine. The magazine features almost entirely on classical music, but in the internet section in an article titled ‘Making a case for new Music’, Radiohead had a mention. The whole passage (written by Paul Lay) was quite long, but here is a section of it concerning Radiohead:

‘…yet where does that leave the many who thirst for the new, who seek the sounds of their own age that reach beyond the banality of so much pop? And, if you doubt that many exist, take a look at the splendid website of the band Radiohead, hardly a marginal voice (it topped the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic), where it urges fans to listen to influences, such as the music of Krzysztof Penderecki, or the Seventies experimentation of Miles Davis. Hardly mainstream fare.’

{Thanks to Steve}

Categories
Radiohead

Liam and Richard D. James speak up about Radiohead

In a recent interview with the NME, Liam Gallagher of Oasis spoke about the band’s upcoming album:

“It’s punk rock. And moody. And well done, proper – none of that weird fooking Radiohead bollocks, none of that indie fooking rubbish. It’s the Pistols and the Beatles, man – it’s us.”

In a seperate interview with www.groove.de, Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) brought up Radiohead:

(Translated from German)
Your music was very influential. One of the more outstanding artists, who said they were influenced by your music, is Radiohead. Did you listen to one of their latest Albums ?Kid A? or ?Amnesiac??
I don?t like them. I heard about five or six songs and considered them really crappy!
Crappy?
Yeah! Predictable and crappy! I mean, I?m simply comparing them to my favourite music, and in comparison to that it?s horrible! Compared with all that shitty boring R&B-stuff it?s probably ok. Compared to these teenage punk bands ? or whatever you?re supposed to call them – , which consider themselves being really anarchistic and stuff, they?re probably great! If one is suspended solely to things like that and then comes Radiohead?you probably think they?re geniuses!
{thanks to Zach & Kid.A}

Categories
Amnesiac Radiohead

Radiohead nominated for 2 Q awards

Radiohead has been nominated for two Q awards for the following categories:

Best Album (Amnesiac)
Best Act in the World Today

Also nominated was Nigel Godrich, who was nominated for Best Producer for his work on Amnesiac. {thanks to Angus}

Categories
Radiohead Thom Yorke

Someone turns 33!!!!

We would like to wish Thom Yorke a Happy 33rd Birthday! The fine people at nothing-to-fear.org have set up a way that you can help contribute to Thom’s birthday present while also helping out with a very important issue. Click here for more info.

Categories
Amnesiac Radiohead

Johnny Marr on Radiohead

There is an interview with Johnny Marr from last month’s Rock’s Back Pages in which Marr mentioned Radiohead:

RBP: Post-Britpop, what evidence do you see of The Smiths’ continuing influence on pop music? Radiohead’s ‘Knives Out’, for instance, has frequently been described as “Smithsy”.

JM: Well, I must say that the band that’s come closest to the genuine influence of The Smiths is Radiohead. A lot of it’s to do with the way Thom Yorke pitches his emotions in his voice. I mean, Gene ? forget it! Talk about grabbing the shadow and missing the substance. The first time I met Ed O’Brien, he sat me down with a certain amount of trepidation and played me ‘Knives Out’. And the music did touch me in the same way The Smiths did, and it was a wonderful feeling. And I can’t do that anymore, because it’s like dressing up in your own clothes, but there’s still a part of me that reacts to that sort of emotional quality and that sort of melodicism.