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From the NME:

THOM YORKE has described HAIL TO THE THIEF’ as ‘OK COMPUTER 2’ – but said that in two years time the band will be “completely unrecognisable”.
The group have just finished a tour of UK clubs to promote their forthcoming album, which is due on June 9.
Speaking to Dutch magazine OOR, Thom said he’s no idea what the future will hold for the band, but he expects their music to change dramatically.
“We’re a pop band again for now, because it was necessary,” he said. “Just doing what we’re good at. But, no matter how good I feel about the new album and how much fun we’re having in what we do right now, we’ve been there already. We’re not moving.
“This is ‘OK Computer 2’. What we will do from now on, should not be anything like we’ve done before. We will not go further back, like everyone expects. There won’t be a second ‘The Bends’. There is not a single good reason for it. As a band, we have fully discussed this matter recently. Radiohead will be completely unrecognisable in two years. At least, I hope so. It’s the only perspective of the future that I can live with.”
Radiohead fans will now have to wait until next month’s headline appearance at the Glastonbury festival (June 28) until the band play live in the UK again.
See this week’s NME for a report from Radiohead’s tour, and don’t miss the new Radiohead NME Originals issue, on sale now, price ?4.99 containing a host of interviews, reviews and photos from the archives of NME and Melody Maker.

You can listen to the interview Thom did for BBC Radio 4’s Front Row here.

As you know, Ed appeared on Asian Dub Foundation’s album ‘Enemy of the Enemy’. In a recent interview with the City University (in London) magazine Massive, guitarist Chandrasonic spoke highly of him:
“That was my favourite day of recording. He’s a really great musician. He’s coming from somewhere a bit different from where we’re from but he has the same way of thinking. I think that’s whats interesting about music. Someone like Ed has grown up through indie guitar stuff and they [radiohead] have branched out and sought to embrace all these other ideas and have created a totally new sound.”
(thanks to Saff)

We are proud to announce that our new Radiohead Gigography has been finished and is available for you to use! With your help, the gigography is aimed to be the most comprehensive listing of Radiohead concerts and performances over the years.
You can now add reviews, setlists, and photos to each and every show and if a show that you know about is not listed, you can add it! Many thanks to Kyle De Almeida for doing the complete backend of the database. Without his help, this project would of never been completed.

Ed, Phil, and Colin were on Zo? Ball’s radio show on Xfm earlier today. The three seemed in excellent spirits and Phil even read the 6 o’clock news including traffic and weather stating that the temperature would be “17 or 64 depending on which currency you want it in!”
The band were asked questions from Zo? Ball and also from email received from fans over the Xfm website. They were quized on things such as the up and coming performance at Glastonbury for which Ed said hopefully they can actually enjoy the performance this time, to the recently completed tour of small venues around Britain. Phil spoke of Thom’s special redition of Happy Birthday for him at the Manchester show which involved samples of Thom saying “happy birthday” in lots of different voices and being cut up by Jonny before the audience joined in. A tear was brought to his eye but apparently it was just the smoke machine…. yeah, right Phil!
They were also asked about the comparisons they always face with new albums to OK Computer. They all said how it’s nice now to have that milestone but that they always think every album is their best to date. Ed was questioned about the corporate state of the record industry to which he replied ‘well it’s fucked isn’t it!’ He also said that they have had a wonderful time with Parlophone and that they are generally just great.
They were also asked by a fan which websites they may frequent if any. Much sniggering from the band followed. Colin said that for Radiohead news he may go to Green Plastic or At Ease to see what’s going on!
During the show the two new b-sides from ‘There There’ were played, and the 2nd single from Hail to the Thief was announced to be “Go to Sleep” which still has no release date. The plan was also to play some songs off the new album but apparently they were not allowed to by the record company. Zo? had Nigel Godrich’s signed copy of the new album and the band were quite keen to play some new songs but to no avail.
(many thanks to Stephen)

The NME are running a story about Oasis and their new album. The subject of Radiohead was brought up and Gallagher had the following to say: “I heard the single. I like it because it doesn’t annoy me. But then again with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood in a band, they’re going to be great, put them together and you get genius.”
“But I don’t get the whole angst thing,” he mused. “I don’t likeThe Vines, except for ‘Get Free’ – great track, but what have they got to be pissed off about? They live in Sydney, the most beautiful city in the word. The Coral come from Liverpool and they have the right to be pissed off, but they write beautiful songs about how great life could be – they are geniuses.”
“Radiohead have sold twenty million albums and they’re still miserable? I can tell you from personal experience – it’s not that bad. Trust me.”
(thanks to Adam)