Category: Radiohead

Todd from Twitch (a great site dedicated to independent and cool mainstream films) wrote in with some very interesting information. It’s still squarely in the rumor pile, but someone supposedly connected with the film wrote in to Twitch to report that Radiohead has been approached to score A Scanner Darkly, the new animated science-fiction film from Richard Linklater (Waking Life, Slacker, School of Rock). From the posting on Twitch:

“I have a friend who is an animator on Richard Linklater’s A SCANNER DARKLY. I thought you might be interested in this scoop.
The movie is doing very well in test screenings, but the #1 complaint audiences have is with the score. So I can only tell you this anonymously, but the producers have approached RADIOHEAD about doing a new score for the film and it looks like everything is going to go through. So in addition to an awesome animated Phillip K. Dick film, we will have a brand new Radiohead score to look forward to. as far as I know, this is the first time Radiohead has ever done a score for the film. While this is still a “rumor” at this time, I would give it a 99% accuracy rating at this point.
Also, I’ve seen the new trailer for the film and it is absolutely outstanding. It should be hitting the web any time now.”

Twitch has historically been very accurate in the past, but in this case I’m not sure the timing works out- with Radiohead hard at work on a new album, it seems odd that they’d take time away from that to score a film. Still, members of Radiohead have mentioned in the past that they’d love to do a film score, and this film (go check out the first trailer here) looks like the perfect film for it.
The film was originally scheduled for release in early 2005, but has been pushed back to mid-2006, supposedly to give the animators more time to “work on the film”. It either means Warner has great faith in the film, or it’s bad to the point of being unreleasable. We’ll see…
(Thanks to Todd and Twitch).

Some new merchandise is available through w.a.s.t.e. just in time for the holidays! New products include two shirts designed by Stanley in the band’s haunted studio. The band also has “Unsuitable Greeting Cards”, which are offered for sale as a set, and are intended to be sent at “Unsuitable times.”
In addition, a coffee mug described as a “Drinking Vessel” has been designed. It is suitable for “all liquids and which may also be used to house pencils, diamonds, marbles, or, indeed, anything you wish.”
If you’re not in to greeting cards or coffee mugs, then perhaps you would like a 2006 Radiohead calendar which contains 12 new pictures by Stanley Donwood and Dr Tchock.
Speaking of Mr Donwood, he has a new screenprint entitled “Pacific Coast” which is hand-printed in several colors and ideal for “houses without pictures. Or houses with pictures.”
To guarantee arrival of goods before the festive period, last dates for ordering are:
December 8 – Australia, New Zealand
December 11 – USA, Canada, Japan, Eastern Europe
December 13 – Western Europe
December 19 – United Kingdom
Go forth and shop at www.waste.uk.com and www.slowlydownward.com.

Thom has updated the band’s blog (Dead Air Space) about the UN meeting in Montreal regarding what to do after the Kyoto protocol. Click here to read…

DJ Panzah Zandahz has gone and taken his favorite Radiohead tracks and remixed them with snippets of artists such as MF Doom, Jurrasic 5, De La Soul, and more.
MP3Nova.org has this write up:
The album starts off with the scorpio-fused breakbeat work-out “Everything in Its Wrong Place” & progresses in to a warped version of Cut Chemist’s Litmus Test remix of Gab’s “Chemical alisthenics.” A remix of a remix I guess. Continuing on the Chemist theme MF Doom’s “Change the Beat” gets thrown in to a blender & comes out as a Jurassic 5 tinged re-working of Radiohead’s semi-obscure “Wicked Child.” The real heat is the “My Iron Lung” remix of Daytona 500. HEAT! PZ’s favorite emcee of all time, Edan, finds himself sharing the same meter as Radiohead in a noisy & lo-fi “Rapperfection” mash up of the “National Anthem” off of Kid A. The CD gets down-right weird when PZ covers “Creep” (the most covered RH song, PERIOD) featuring a robotic like-ness of Fred (its kind of a stretch) from “Fitter Happier.” Chord Organs, theremins, they are all there. A 45 minute sunday morning session in the studio led to a goofy & fun exclusive from Sev Statik (of PCM, Tunnel Rats, & Deep Space 5) going off over a re-working of his favorite RH break from Kid A. Sev even manages to share the same track with Kool Keith as “Optimistic” dissolves in to “Paperbag” & Keith lets loose with his usual banter about pecunious bugs & thugs that perpetrate. Two “Hail to Thief” Native Tongue remixes are next on the list & De La’s “Itsoweezee” becomes a completely different animal. An instrumental of PZ’s re-worked “No Suprises” ends off the originals set & the album finishes with three instrumentals that are best utilized by rhyming over in the shower.
PZ describes the album as “nothing to be taken too seriously, it was just a lot of fun to make & I hope that you have fun listening to it.” CD length is 42 minutes and there’s also a 7″ vinyl available with remixes of My Iron Lung and Wicked Child. Order the discs (and listen to some previews of the album on tokenrecluse.com.
Torrent and tracklist info can be found here.

The classic video of Radiohead’s performance at London’s Astoria is being re-released on DVD and for the first time will be commercially available in the United States. The concert, which happened on May 27, 1994, showcased many songs that would later appear on the Bends, including “Bones”, “Fake Plastic Trees”, and “My Iron Lung”.
This DVD is available on November 22, 2005 and can be pre-ordered at Amazon.
The tracklist includes: ‘You’, ‘Bones’, ‘Ripcord’, ‘Black Star’, ‘Creep’, ‘The Bends’, ‘My Iron Lung’, ‘Prove Yourself’, ‘Maquiladora’, ‘Vegetable ‘, Fake Platsic Trees’, ‘Just’, ‘Stop Whispering’, Anyone Can Play Guitar’, ‘Pop Is Dead’ and ‘Blow Out’.

Green Plastic would like to wish Jonny Greenwood a Happy Birthday today!!!