Green Plastic Radiohead

If you’re looking to fulfill your fix on Radiohead merchandise, now is the time to do it over at W.A.S.T.E. They have a ton of stuff for sale including some new t-shirts and a lot of older posters that are being reissued.
Go now!

Hey there… been a long time? Sorry for the lack of updates. The holidays are always hectic and we’ve been off doing less important things.
Not much going on in Radiohead World, although some interesting news is coming from SPIN:

Supervisors of Chicago’s brand new, gleaming gem — a Frank Gehry-designed music pavilion within Millennium Park — claim that they want to have more popular music performances, but clearly actions speak louder than words: City officials have vetoed Radiohead’s request to play the venue on June 19 and 20. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago’s Cultural Affairs Department turned down Radiohead’s appeal “even though the group would have paid rental fees of $100,000 — because the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to hold a rehearsal June 20.”
“Free public programming is part of the venue’s mission,” a spokesperson for the Cultural Affairs Department said. “We have to support organizations such as the Grant Park Orchestra, but we’re open to other events if there are availabilities at other times” — like a private corporate event for Toyota that cost $800,000 and closed the park to the public last summer. According to the Sun-Times, Radiohead still hopes to return to Chicago this summer regardless of whether or not they can play at Millennium.

In addition to Chicago, Radiohead plan to play in many other cities across the United States this Summer. Stay tuned…
(thanks to Chris)

Radiohead will be featured in a new film called Coachella which is set to hit select theaters on January 24, 2006 in the US. The film is a documentary of the history of the festival and will also feature interviews and performances by The Arcade Fire, Bjork, Oasis, Pixies, and many more. Check here for more details.
The annual festival is set to take place on April 29 and 30 in Indio, California.
(thanks to Jeremy)

Todd from Twitch (a great site dedicated to independent and cool mainstream films) wrote in with some very interesting information. It’s still squarely in the rumor pile, but someone supposedly connected with the film wrote in to Twitch to report that Radiohead has been approached to score A Scanner Darkly, the new animated science-fiction film from Richard Linklater (Waking Life, Slacker, School of Rock). From the posting on Twitch:

“I have a friend who is an animator on Richard Linklater’s A SCANNER DARKLY. I thought you might be interested in this scoop.
The movie is doing very well in test screenings, but the #1 complaint audiences have is with the score. So I can only tell you this anonymously, but the producers have approached RADIOHEAD about doing a new score for the film and it looks like everything is going to go through. So in addition to an awesome animated Phillip K. Dick film, we will have a brand new Radiohead score to look forward to. as far as I know, this is the first time Radiohead has ever done a score for the film. While this is still a “rumor” at this time, I would give it a 99% accuracy rating at this point.
Also, I’ve seen the new trailer for the film and it is absolutely outstanding. It should be hitting the web any time now.”

Twitch has historically been very accurate in the past, but in this case I’m not sure the timing works out- with Radiohead hard at work on a new album, it seems odd that they’d take time away from that to score a film. Still, members of Radiohead have mentioned in the past that they’d love to do a film score, and this film (go check out the first trailer here) looks like the perfect film for it.
The film was originally scheduled for release in early 2005, but has been pushed back to mid-2006, supposedly to give the animators more time to “work on the film”. It either means Warner has great faith in the film, or it’s bad to the point of being unreleasable. We’ll see…
(Thanks to Todd and Twitch).

Some new merchandise is available through w.a.s.t.e. just in time for the holidays! New products include two shirts designed by Stanley in the band’s haunted studio. The band also has “Unsuitable Greeting Cards”, which are offered for sale as a set, and are intended to be sent at “Unsuitable times.”
In addition, a coffee mug described as a “Drinking Vessel” has been designed. It is suitable for “all liquids and which may also be used to house pencils, diamonds, marbles, or, indeed, anything you wish.”
If you’re not in to greeting cards or coffee mugs, then perhaps you would like a 2006 Radiohead calendar which contains 12 new pictures by Stanley Donwood and Dr Tchock.
Speaking of Mr Donwood, he has a new screenprint entitled “Pacific Coast” which is hand-printed in several colors and ideal for “houses without pictures. Or houses with pictures.”
To guarantee arrival of goods before the festive period, last dates for ordering are:
December 8 – Australia, New Zealand
December 11 – USA, Canada, Japan, Eastern Europe
December 13 – Western Europe
December 19 – United Kingdom
Go forth and shop at www.waste.uk.com and www.slowlydownward.com.

Thom has updated the band’s blog (Dead Air Space) about the UN meeting in Montreal regarding what to do after the Kyoto protocol. Click here to read…