Green Plastic Radiohead

Mel from w.a.s.t.e. was kind enough to send along some more information about Jonny’s upcoming performance at Ether 2005:
Following the success of its sold-out concerts for the last two ETHER festivals, the London Sinfonietta returns for two evenings of experimentation, collaboration and cross-genre juxtaposition on 27 and 28 March 2005. The concerts include traditional Arabic song, new music from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke, plus pieces by pioneering classical composers Ligeti, Penderecki and Messiaen, chosen by Greenwood as music which has inspired him and Radiohead.
Radiohead Television will also be screened throughout the night, featuring video, animations and music from the band’s Hail to the Thief as well as unreleased tracks.
For those lucky duckies with tickets for the show, don’t forget to sneak in cameras and a pen and pad, so you can furious scribble notes to later send to us.

Beth writes in to say…
“Went to see Oxford based band Dive Dive at the Zodiac and lo and behold, Phil Selway came onstage and drummed the two final songs alongside Nigel (ex unbelievable Truth). Much vigorous handshaking prevailed…”
At Ease tracked down some pictures of the event, which you can see here.

From the Free Tibet Campaign’s official site:

Free Tibet Campaign is thrilled to offer the first original artwork ever to be made available for sale by long term Radiohead collaborators Dr T. Tchock and Stanley Donwood. As fans of the award winning band will know, Donwood is a major contributor to Radiohead, having produced the artwork for the band’s albums since their My Iron Lung EP in collaboration with “Dr. Tchock” aka Radiohead frontman, Thom Yorke.

Universally considered to be one of the greatest rock bands in the world, Grammy award winning Radiohead have realised phenomenal, multi-platinum success worldwide, having topped the charts in England, the USA, France, Japan, Canada, Israel, Ireland and Iceland. The band have championed many worthwhile causes, and are long term supporters of Free Tibet Campaign and the Tibetan cause.
We are delighted Stanley Donwood and Dr Tchock have created this fabulously detailed, signed and sealed, original piece for the Panchen Lama, and expect this piece of art and music history to make a real impact in the auction.

The art is 22″ x 30″, and is ink on paper. Starting price is 600 pounds, but if you can somehow swing it, you get a great piece of original art as well as the feeling that comes from donating to a truly awesome cause.

Click here to see what we speak of…

Hold Me to This, Christopher O’Rileys second album of Radiohead covers interpreted for piano, is slated for relase on April 12th on Harmonia Mundi. The tracklist is as follows:
There There
(Nice Dream)
No Surprises
Polyethylene Pt. 2
How I Made My Millions
Like Spinning Plates
Sail to the Moon
The Tourist
Cuttooth
2+2=5
Talk Show Host
Gagging Order
Paranoid Android
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
(Thanks to At Ease.)

There’s an article in this week’s Times Higher Education Supplement on The Music and Art of Radiohead, the book Green Plastic friend Joseph Tate edited. Several contributors were interviewed as well, including Paul Lansky whose music was sampled on “Idioteque.”

http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2019438

The article is “subscription only” but you can register for a free 14 day trial and access it. You can also view it as a PDF file by clicking here.

Make sure to also check out Joseph’s fine Pulk-Pull site.

April 8th is the confirmed date for the second Radiohead Tribute Concert organized by the peruvian Radiohead Community (www.radioheadperu.com). The event is set to start at 9pm with the projection of several videos and audiovisual material related to the band. The main part of the show is the appearance of live acts such as Space Bee, Ertiub, Glam, Amnesiac and an acoustic show by violinist Pauchi Sasaki and guitarist Rodrigo Raez. The after-concert hours will be filled with more visuals, the airing of Radiohead songs and more surprises.
Take note in case you’ll be in Lima around that date:
– Venue: Wayqui Peru Bar – Av. Grau 290-A, Barranco.
– Date and time: Friday, April 8th 2005. 9pm.
– Cost: s/.10 (about $3), including a drink courtesy of the bar.
If you’d like to get tickets with anticipation, e-mail tributo@radioheadperu.com
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