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Beck’s puppets trash Radiohead’s hotel room

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Cult rocker Beck was forced to apologise to British band Radiohead after his stage marionettes allegedly trashed the OK Computer stars’ hotel room. The Loser star and his band have been joined onstage at recent shows by marionettes, each representing a band member, who copy the movements of their human counterparts. The marionettes also star in a film between the end of the performance and the encore. Beck holds the puppets responsible after Radiohead found their hotel rooms trashed following the V Festival in the UK last month, where they both appeared. Beck says, “Yeah, we apologised to Radiohead for that. But, y’know – what can we do? They’re puppets.”
(source: ContactMusic)

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Today’s totally random Radiohead news story

When the band isn’t touring, news is hard to come by. With that being said, we give you this totally random Radiohead news story:

John Mayer covered Thom Yorke’s “The Eraser” in a live performance recently. Now this isn’t the first time Mayer has showed his love for Thom and Radiohead… He covered “Kid A” once which actually sounded pretty good.

Anyway, this really isn’t a cover per se… Mayer was performing a new song called “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” and around the four minute mark, he busts out with a few lines from “The Eraser.”

Check it out if you’re bored like us.
(thanks to Julia)

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Ed Pays Dollar to Pie Clown

Okay, this is old news but who cares…. GP reader Andrew sent us this link from the Arcade Fire’s new album diary where Win Butler describes meeting Radiohead back in June when the band was in Montreal:

“we got to go to the radiohead show here in montreal and meet some of the guys in the band, which was a real dream…we showed ed and colin the people who do midevil sword fighting on the mountain, and ed payed a dollar to smash a pie in the face of this guy dressed up like a clown (i think it was this guys stag party)”

You can find the quote under the June 18th entry. Though it’s not really news, we can’t resist posting stories about Ed smashing pies into the face of clowns.

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No more live dates until new album

Radiohead have vowed not to play live again until they have completed their next album.
The band have been road testing airing new songs such as ‘Bodysnatchers’ and ‘All I Need’ throughout their world tour dates this spring and summer.
But speaking after Tuesday night’s Mercury Music Prize ceremony, Thom Yorke believes it’s time he and his band mates knuckled down on the follow-up to ‘Hail To The Thief.’
He told BBC6music: “We’re in quite a good space really, because we’ve just done the festivals like V Festival, so we are going off for the rest of the year basically, until it’s done – we’re not let out till it’s done.”
(thanks to Max & Jon)
Source: Gigwise.

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Harrowdown Hill video is oven fresh

The “Harrowdown Hill” video aired on the Oven Fresh program on Fuse. Now is the time to encourage people to vote for it. They select the top vote getters to add to regular rotation.
http://www.fuse.tv/ovenfresh.php

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A new Yorke solo album on the way

Andy Yorke

Hehe.. no, not by Thom but rather his younger brother, Andy. If you didn’t know, Andy Yorke has had his own band called the Unbelievable Truth. They have released a couple of albums but have pretty much broken up. Andy had just finished recording an album of his own. Mixing finished in early August and a release is expected sometime early next year. Ex-Unbelievable Truth bandmates Nigel Powell and Jason Moulster were on hand, offering their talents on bass, drums, and keyboards.
You can listen to some of Andy’s songs at the following sites:
http://www.andyyorke.com
http://www.myspace.com/andyyorke
(thanks to Jason)