Music Choice (a cable channel in the US) will be showing a special Radiohead concert in their ongoing Concert Series… It is not quite clear where this particular RH was recorded. To check to see if and when this will be airing in your area, please check their website.
{thanks to Tom & JustStreetSpirit}
Pitchforkmedia has listed Amnesiac #6 in their best albums of 2001 poll. Check it out at http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/.
{thanks to Juston, Chris & dan0}
What’s the perfect end to a perfect Christmas day? More live Radiohead, of course! Roll on over to the computer for some post stuffing your face fun. Rock out with the all new Radiohead Live Video Player featuring concert footage, old skool videos, fan-atic testimonials, a hidden secret and more. Plus pass the player on to fans, friends and foes and let the live love flow.
RADIOHEAD are the unlikely stars of ‘SMALLVILLE’, a forthcoming television series about the early days of KRYPTON orphan SUPERMAN.
The band feature as the hottest ticket in town on the website for the Smallville Ledger, a local newspaper created by producers Warner Brothers as a promotional gimmick.
If fans click here, they will be taken to the Ledger front page. Beside a story about the local bank being held up by arch-villain and Superman nemesis Lex Luthor runs a headline reading ‘RADIOHEAD’S METROPOLIS CONCERT QUICKLY SELLS’. The story explains how Smallville’s “favorite band” sold out a show to help launch new local radio station K-Row in 12 minutes at the LuthorDome. According to the Ledger “fans camped out for days before the seats went on sale” to see the “revered U.K. rock band.”
In the series, which has already begun in the US and is due to be broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK in the New Year, Superman, as plain old Clark Kent, is played by newcomer Tom Welling. The show focuses on his difficult teenage years, spent coming to terms with his extraordinary powers.
— from the NME
{thanks to Michael Armstrong}
Amnesiac came in at #7 in the Triple J Listeners’ Top 10 Albums Of 2001. To see the full list, go here.
{thanks to Chris505 & maddie}
The Baltimore City Paper has an article up about Jeanne Loriod, who died last August at the age of 73. Loriod is remembered as a master at of the ondes Martenot, the same instrument (an electronic keyboard that features a ring that slides on a string) that Jonny Greenwood could be seen playing on songs like “How to Disappear Completely” and “The National Anthem.”
You may or may not know that Loriod and Greenwood were in contact with each other and were even planning a collaboration of some sort.
Jonny spoke about Loriod in an article that appeared in the New Yorker last August:
Jonny is fascinated by Olivier Messiaen, the late French composer; it is because of Messiaen that he became interested in the ondes martenot, which is featured in many of the composer’s works. “I heard the ‘Turangalîla Symphony’ when I was fifteen,” Jonny went on, “and I became round-the-bend obsessed with it. I wish I could have met him or shaken his hand. I did get to meet his sister-in-law, the ondeiste Jeanne Loriod. I’m learning Messiaen’s ‘Trois Petites Liturgies’ for a performance in London.”
To read the full Baltimore City Paper article about Jeanne Loriod, click here.
{thanks to Kallen}