Category: Radiohead

Pitchfork has the scoop on the latest Radiohead news. There is mention of a Thom Yorke solo album and though there have been rumors for a while, nothing has been officially confirmed that Thom Yorke will be doing a solo record.

Richard Linklater, Keanu Reeves, Philip K. Dick, Thom Yorke. What do these people have in common? A movie, of course.
Verifying a rumor that has been floating around the interweb for months, Entertainment Weekly revealed last week that Radiohead will contribute music to Before Sunrise / School of Rock director Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s cult science fiction book A Scanner Darkly. The film, which stars Keanu Reeves, is due in theaters July 7.
Although the band won’t be responsible for the flick’s entire score, Warner Independent Pictures told EW that A Scanner Darkly will “feature music by Radiohead, including a brand-new track from lead singer Thom Yorke’s upcoming solo release.” We’re eager to watch Keanu Reev– wait, WHAT? A Thom Yorke solo album?!?! Since when did he go all Beyonce on us? Or rather, since when did he go all Jonny Greenwood?
Of course, Radiohead keeps its official news guarded like the Pentagon, so we’ll have to wait until some huge corporate magazine finds out what’s going on before we can give you more information on Thom’s solo jawn.
As for the new Radiohead album, we can only assume that’s what Yorke was referring to last week when he posted on Radiohead’s blog a week ago about “furiously writing, working out parts. cracking up. not much time left. unshure about everything.” Unless he’s coming up with a new soufflé recipe.
Yorke and Greenwood will perform at Friends of the Earth’s The Big Ask Live benefit concert at KoKo in London on May 1. The charity event is sold out, but scalpers are selling tickets online for obscene sums of money. Naturally, this makes the band, and the charity, very angry. Buy one of those, and you are an Enemy of the Earth.
Radiohead have also slowly started fleshing out their summer touring plans. They will perform at the Sziget Festival in Hungary sometime between August 9 and 16, at the V Festival at Weston Park in Staffordshire, England on August 20, and, of course, at Bonnaroo in Tennessee on June 16-18.
C’mon everybody, chant with me now: TOUR! TOUR! TOUR! TOUR! TOUR!

(thanks to Landon)

Head on over to Dead Air Space and check out the new photos posted by Colin. The most notable one is above, where the blackboard makes a return with some song titles listed. Since these songs appear under the word “Tour”, we would have to guess that these are the songs the band are rehearsing for their tour this Summer. Hey, and is that Ed with the short hair?
Here’s what is on the board:
– 5ths
– Bodysnatchers
– Videotape
– Open pick
– Bodies Laughing
– Trills
– Nude
– 15 Step
– Down is the New Up
– Bombers/ 4 Minute Warning
– Burn the Witch
– House of Cards
– Reckoner
– Mornin’ m’ Lord
– Go Slowly
– Arpeggi

Radiohead has been included in the AV Club’s list of Ten Memorable Saturday Night Live Musical Moments. Coming in at #9, Radiohead is in good company with other acts like Patti Smith, Simon & Garfunkle, and Pearl Jam.

9. October 14, 2000—Radiohead
Even rock fans who’ve never understood the appeal of Radiohead’s tuneless, quasi-experimental phase can wrap their heads around the band’s SNL performance of “Idioteque,” from perhaps its most “difficult” album, Kid A. On disc, the Kid A material is ragged and jagged, and at times purposefully off-putting. Live, “Idioteque” in particular becomes a kind of invigorating nightmare, as Thom Yorke whines about an “ice ace coming… this is really happening” while the band cranks out an otherworldly, escalating noise. When the song abruptly stops, it’s almost a relief. The world ends. The world spins on.

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Tickets for the V Festival sold out in less than three hours Friday leaving many fans searching on places like eBay only to find prices jacked up to nearly three times their face value.
In other festival news, there are reports that Radiohead will be playing the Rock en Seine Festival at Parc Saint Cloud, Paris, France on August 25 and 26. This still hasn’t been confirmed.
Stay tuned…
(thanks to Ghostrider)

Radiohead, along with Morrissey, was officially confirmed as headliners at this year’s V Festival.
On announcing the line up Bob Angus, V Festival Director, said: “We’re very proud to be presenting Radiohead, one of the most important bands in live music today, as headliners for this year’s V.
Other acts include Keane, Faithless, Fatboy Slim, Starsailor, Groove Armada, The Magic Numbers, The Ordinary Boys, James Dean Bradfield, Sugababes and The Feeling.
The festival take place on the weekend of August 19-20. Tickets go sale Friday, March 3 at 9:30am with weekend camping tickets cost £120, or £100 for both days without camping and day tickets priced at £58.50.
(from Festivalwise.com)