Month: September 2005

What’s this? Thom’s latest post at Dead Air Space has what appears to be a list of all the songs they have been working on! There are some familiar titles there like “Nude”, “House of Cards”, and “Last Flowers” just to name a few. It should be noted that not all of these songs will make the cut. It’s quite normal for a band to work on many songs during the recording process and then narrow down the ones they feel will fit on the album. Also, we cannot assume that these are all song titles. Some songs may not have names yet and are going by temporary titles. Here is a list of what we can read. If you see something we don’t, give us a shout.
01. No Shame
02. Videotape
03. Solutions
04. House of Cards
05. Bodysnatchers?
06. Morning M’ Lord
07. Faust Arp
08. Suit Don’t Fit
09. Nude
10. Arpeggi
11. Open Pick
12. A Pig’s Ear
13. Trills
14. Reckoner
15. Skirting on the Surface
16. Fela Kuti
17. Can Stylee
18. Burn the Witch
19. Down is the new Up
20. Walking on Stage Now
21. Last Flowers
Also, it appears that Thom will be meeting with Tony Blair.

Thom updated Dead Air Space today with some interesting info.

right now colin is reading that strange devarahi synth book.
stanley is hammering and making greetings cards which may or may not be for christmas.
im working on something that i think is called PAY DAY. im gonna lay the lyrics line by line on the floor and shuffle them. and im having to play gentle fingerpicking over furious beat.
ed is sick as a dog at the moment poor guy. he is feeling very sorry for himself and keeps sending us sad little texts.
in the distance there is a cloud but as im in an ok mood i can keep it away
……..friends of the earth have asked me whether i would meet Tony Blair at downing street to discuss what our government is not doing about climate change..i dont know if this will ever happen for certain…. it is rattling around in the back of my mind and concerns me a lot.
i have no intention of being used by spider spin doctors to make it look like we make progress when it is just words.
id love to know what you think but i cant ask.
youd say oh ther e he goes again interfering and meddling in politics why doesnt he get on with the music and shut up.
perhaps because i feel like a hypocrit if dont do anything, and equally feel like a hypocrit if i try getting involved.
nobody wants to know. none of u s do, me included id love to forget about it like your average Times reader. wed all like it to go away. turn to to the rising sea and say come back later im busy right now.
Blair has been uttering nonsense lately about kyoto and such, real la la stuff… looks like th eamerican right have finally eaten his mind… blah blah why on earth would i meet this man? o r perhaps that is exactly why i should. but i dont have powers of persuasion, i just have temper and an acid tongue.
trust me i find this as dull as you do… politics is poison..
what do yout think i should do?
speak to you later

Radiohead’s Dead Air Space has been updated again with news that the band were back in the studio.
Jonny takes the time to talk about his “six solid months” of listening to nothing but reggae while his brother Colin posts about Andre 3000.
Neither shed any light on how recording is going.

There is an interview with Stanley Donwood over at antiMUSIC. Here’s an excerpt:

antiMUSIC: What has been your personal favorite piece of art you’ve done for Radiohead (and also your favorite outside of Radiohead)?
Stanley: That is too hard a question for me. I’ve been pretty happy, on the whole, with all of the Radiohead work that I’ve done. Though maybe the long landscapes in the Kid A booklet could be a favourite. My personal non-Radiohead piece was a now-lost image which was composed of the advertising strapline, logo and blurb for a Ford car called the Probe. I replaced the picture of the car with a photo of a big erect cock. It was very popular, but the magazine that had commissioned the picture refused to print it.

The Radiohead icon contest that has been going on over at our message board, Mortigi Tempo, has come to a close and the winners have been announced! Congratulations to David Allen for his Mac OS X icons and Joseph Hosford for the Windows icons. Sadly, there were no Linux icons submitted.

Radiocoocoo, who came up with the contest and judged the entries, has this to say:

Thanks to all that entered my contest . I got many entries, well over a 100 of them, some good, some just silly. But none the less I have looked them all over and chosen the best I could.
A few things I looked for was originality, perspective, clarity and usefulness .
Lets also give a big hand to Jonathan for allowing me to do this contest on his message board & of course Stanley Donwood for supplying us with his art and creative writing over the past 9 years!!! oh yes its been nine years!
Make sure to visit his website its pretty weird, if yu like weird yu’ll like this www.slowlydownward.com
And always remember to SUPPORT the arts!
Again, thank yu ALL for making my desktop a fun space I sure hope you enjoy them too.
best wishes,
Radiocoocoo AKA. Rex Vanstee

To download the Mac OSX icons, click here.
For the Windows icons, click here.
Thanks to all that participated!

This is it! The first taste of brand new Radiohead music is here! To purchase and download Radiohead’s contribution to the new Help: A Day in the Life album, head on over to the War Child site. Enjoy!