Green Plastic Radiohead

Just before playing Punch-Up at Dublin last Thursday, Thom made a comment about “stepping out of the music industry for a while”. Obviously, this raised some eyebrows with some, and seriously disturbed some of the less-stable. Thom qualified this a bit during the Q&A after the BBC acoustic show yesterday-
“I think it’s a good time to get out of the way. Anybody in a new band at the moment, and anybody trying to get anywhere that’s doing good work, it’s very very tough at the moment. The shareholders are coming down on the major record companies, the major record companies are coming down on the radio, and the radio’s panicking, and round-and-round. And it’s kind of a weird scene at the moment, it won’t last. It’s a good time to step out and see what happens for a while.”
Hear Thom’s complete response here.

Stanley Donwood has updated his amazing Slowly Downward website with some new artwork and few new stories, and you should definitely pop over and pay him a visit. Admittedly, we’re a bit late with this, as it appears to have been updated a few weeks ago, but better late than never…
If you’re not familiar with Stanley and what he does (besides most of the Radiohead artwork), take a few minutes, go read these, and tell me you don’t get that odd feeling behind your eyes that you normally get when you once again realize that at any instant everything around you can go directly and permanently pear-shaped.
(Thanks to Vincent for the wake-up call…)

Sometime tonight between 8pm and 10pm GMT (meaning 3pm and 5pm EST), on the Zane Lowe show, BBC’s Radio 1 will broadcast a live acoustic show that Thom and Jonny recorded last night.
The setlist was (and will likely be)-
-Go To Sleep
-I Might Be Wrong
-Like Spinning Plates
-Bulletproof (I Wish I Was)
-Follow Me Arond
-Fog
-Lucky
-No Surprises
-Karma Police
And that best part? Why, certainly that you can listen to Radio 1 through a live stream here.
For those interested, here’s the article as it appears on the BBC Website–
“On Monday 8th December, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood will go back into our Maida Vale studios for the first time since 1995.
They’ll be playing for around an hour to a very very select audience – and we’ll let you hear the entire performance on Zane’s show on Tuesday December 9th.
So that’s it, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood – Radiohead. Unplugged and live at Maida Vale for the first time since The Bends. We do a lot of small gigs with big bands – Muse and the Foos were intimate – on this show if you get to go you’ll practically be sharing their DNA!”

After dropping 29 places from 15th to 44th last week, 2+2=5 dropped again to #61 on the UK Charts.

Mark wrote in to tell us that in the?December issue of Bang magazine, Jonny brought up the oft-rumoured remix album.
“They sound great. I would hope?[the remix album]?would be released at the beginning of next year, but we really don’t know whether to make it a whole record or a series of smaller releases. But then we’ve also been talking about doing a B-sides record as well. We talk and talk!”
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Artists who have produced remixes of tracks from Hail To The Thief include Cristian Vogel, Kid Koala, Madlib, Four Tet, and Radiohead’s very own Thom Yorke (who has produced a new version of ‘We Suck Young Blood’).
(Thanks to Mark.)

In this week’s special Radiohead section, NME is reporting that the much-rumoured Radiohead Live DVD will be released around April 2004. It is said to contain material from the recent tour as well as content from The Greatest Lying Mouth of All Time.
Please note that the key word in the paragraph above is rumoured. We’ll keep you posted.