Category: Radiohead

French music channel, MCM, will broadcast Radiohead’s 2003 Eurock?ennes concert on Wednesday June 16th at midnight (Tuesday night). The show will run for 90 minutes and will be also be re-broadcast (19/06 at 01:30, 22/06 at 00:15, 29/06 at 02:00, 02/07 at 01:00 and 05/07 at 02:00).
(Thanks to At Ease).

According to the Mercury News, Jonathan Glazer, who directed the excellent videos for ‘Street Spirit’ and ‘Karma Police’ (as well as the remarkable Sexy Beast, is having a bit of trouble with his new film, Birth. Apparently, the film deals with Nicole Kidman falling in love with a 10-year-old whom she believes is the reincarnation of her dead husband, and some scenes involving her and the boy stripping and kissing in a bathtub (!) are not going over so well with New Line production heads.
After already going through multiple rewrites and creative battles, New Line is considering simply pulling the plug on the $50 million film, Glazer’s second.
Read the entire article here.

Fred Cooper is the man whose voice speaks to Macintosh users everywhere. Many years ago, the first Macintosh said “Hello. I am Macintosh” with Fred’s voice. On tidbits.com you can hear or read an interview with Fred, which was also used for Radiohead’s Fitter Happier.

Did you ever expect that your voice would become so popular? I’ve heard it in other things, such as Radiohead’s song Fitter Happier, and of course Stephen Hawking’s computerized voice.

Fred: The Radiohead thing was just a fluke. I spent maybe half an hour recording that, and at the time it made no sense. But when the song was mixed, it really came together. As for Dr. Hawking, I’m proud to have been the basis for his system. When I hear him speak, I don’t even hear myself any more, his ideas are so unique. But my wife likes to think that I’m the one talking about time and space occasionally.
(Thanks to At Ease.)
UPDATE: Not that it changes the content of the article terribly, because it’s obviously a bit of a joke, but if you notice the date of publication, it is, in fact, April 1st. Which is April Fools’ Day.
(Thanks to John.)

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At 11:35pm on Friday, June 18th, BBC2 is slated to broadcast “Cool Britannia”, a Later with Jools Holland special. This is likely a tie-in with the DVD of the same name scheduled for release. Radiohead are going to be featured on the show, likely playing ‘The Bends’.
(Thanks to Treefingers.)

Will the rise of iTunes and portable MP3 players doom the CD? Or, more specifically, the album tracklist? Some people seem to think it will. As you’ll note, you can’t purchase Radiohead’s music on iTunes- the band has made it clear that their albums are meant to be taken as a whole. There’s a rather intelligent article in the Scotsman about this. Here’s an excerpt-
As you may have heard, the pop single is doomed. Today?s teenagers would rather buy ringtones or download songs from the internet, if they?re not buying computer games, DVDs and drugs. The grown-ups, meanwhile, have given up on singles as a rip-off and buy Norah Jones albums instead.
I won?t shed a tear. Singles are a rip-off, and I?m not sure anyone over 12 cares who is at No1 any more apart from the horrible record company people who spend fortunes putting them there. I?d feel sad if albums died too, though, as a few people now seem to think they might.
This is not a new prediction. Wise old Brian Eno once mused that in the future the idea of listening to the same prerecorded sequence of music again and again would seem medieval. The future of recording, Brian thought, would be self-generating sound – music that is different every time you play it. Recent predictions about the death of the album are more prosaic, and partly the fault of the iPod. If you can download music and store hundreds of songs on one of these fancy portable MP3 players, why buy albums? Buy individual pieces of music instead and compile your own sonic landscapes.
This bothers me. Certain sets of songs work together, and lose impact if split from each other, or even from the artwork they?re packaged in. The modern nightmare that is Radiohead?s OK Computer, the greatest pop album of the late 90s, was great partly because of the tracklisting, the way songs shared themes which resonated more as you went on (it starts with a car crash, ends with a man saying “idiot, slow down”). Then there was the haunting intermission of Fitter, Happier, perfect in the middle of the album, far less powerful elsewhere, and the paranoid artwork that made you never want to get on a plane again.
Read the entire article here.