Green Plastic Radiohead

Canadian music site Chart Attack has a brief review about Radiohead’s recent Toronto make-good show. An excerpt-

There’s a parallel between Radiohead and the athletes who usually patrol the Skydome; their reputations are not based on the present, but on the past. Professional athletes like baseball players are awarded contracts based on past merits rather than on their current abilities. Similarly, Radiohead developed their popularity with the release of two critically acclaimed albums in the ’90s ? The Bends and OK Computer ? before delving into a more experimental mode over the past three years. Though the partisan crowd was enthusiastic for any thing their heroes would perform, it was quite obvious that the large majority of the crowd would have been happier to hear more of the band’s earlier work than the moody, atmospheric material from their latest release, Hail To The Thief. Still, 11 of the album’s 14 songs were included in the concert.

You can read the entire article here.

From NME–
RADIOHEAD’s ‘2+2=5’ has hit the Number One spot in the first ever DARKNESS-free week in the NME Top Ten, beating off competition from THE STROKES, THE COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE and RAZORLIGHT.
The unofficial MTV footage of ‘2+2=5′ has proved to be a huge hit with chart viewers, but will it still hold the top spot next week against strong new contenders Hundred Reasons and next week’s release of The White Stripes’ ‘The Hardest Button To Button’?

Carnegie Science Center’s Henry Buhl, Jr. Planetarium in Pittsburgh will be offering a Radiohead laser show this November. Apparently they have a pretty impressive setup, so this might be rather impressive.
More info is available here.
(Thanks to Mark, who’ll keep us posted.)

Radiohead will be featured on the next four (!) Ongoing History of Music shows on Toronto’s Edge 102 FM.
The show, hosted by Alan Cross, airs every Monday at 11pm (Toronto/EST time, 0300 GMT), You can listen online here .
UPDATE- Leilah points out that Monday is the repeat- the original airing of the show is Sunday night at 7pm (2300 GMT)
(Thanks to Leilah)

Treefingers says- “Radiohead played at the Sound Advice Amphitheater in West Palm Beach on October 4th. During the song Idioteque, there was a small fire near Phil.
“Ed was looking really worried and people in the pit looked at each other smelling something burning. It was one of the fog machines a bunch of roadies rushed to the scene. It looked like it was getting out of hand and they all collectively removed the burning device off stage.”
I was actually at that show, and relatively close to the front. While I didn’t see a fire, I can attest that there was definitely a fog machine going ape on stage, to the point where you could hardly see Phil.
UPDATE: I didn’t see a fire, but Daniel certainly did…
hello. to clarify a bit, i was front row just to the right of thom at the west palm beach gig, and i can tell you that there was certainly a small fire. at some point during idioteque you could see some smoke and then the flames (reaching a couple feet tall). it could have been a fog machine or a fan.
ed and phil looked a bit worried as the fire was just behind phil to his left. the band members were pointing at it and to people backstage to do something about it quick, because it got out of hand very quickly. knowing all the lights and electrical items close by, it could have been a disaster.
first someone ran to it with a big fireblanket trying to beat it out? and that didn’t work and someone finally ran onstage with the fire extinguisher. from the smells, surely thom knew of something going wrong, but he never wavered the slightest bit. after the fire was out, the bandmates seemed to be smiling big in relief or humor. who knows.
(Thanks to Daniel)

Stanley Donwood has decorated a ‘cow’ – (a pretend one!) for auction.
The artwork on the cow ‘Restructured Burger’ is a reflection of the artwork featured on the current Radiohead album, ‘HAIL TO THE THIEF’ – see picture attached.
Please go and have a look at the website www.cowparade.net for all information about the cows and their artists and click on the ‘Ireland’ link to find specific information on Stanley’s ‘Restructured Burger’.
Also attached is notes on how to paint the cow from Stanley (see below).
The auction is on 20th November in the Four Seasons in Dublin. Catalogues cost EUR25 and tickets to the auction will be EUR150. Proceeds go to The Dublin Simon Community (for homeless people) and The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation.
(from w.a.s.t.e.)
Click “continue reading…” to read Stanley’s instructions on how to paint the cow.