Christopher O’Riley will be performing a concert of Radiohead transcriptions at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre on December 13, 2002 at 8pm. Tickets are on sale now here. Try to catch this if you can…
(thanks to Lindsay)
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Thom #6
Q Magazine has named Thom Yorke the sixth most powerful person in the music industry.
The top 10 are Bono; Doug Morris, chairman and chief executive officer, Universal Music Group; Eminem; L. Lowry Mays, founder of U.S. entertainment firm Clear Channel; Kurt Cobain; Thom Yorke; Lyor Cohen, president and chief executive officer, Island-Def Jam; Clive Calder, head of Zomba Music Group; Paul McCartney-Yoko Ono, Apple Corps. Ltd.; and Simon Fuller, former manager of the Spice Girls.
The magazine will publish the full list of the 50 most powerful people in music in its November issue.
Also, Details magazine recently named Thom #32 in their “Most Influential Men Under 37” list.
(thanks to Richard, katya, Ben, & Alex)
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Moby covers “Creep”
During a concert in Helsinki on October 2nd, Moby decided to cover Radiohead’s “Creep”. He introduced the song by saying, “The best song of this band and they never play it, that’s why I’ll play it now.”
(thanks to Satu)
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100 Greatest Albums
Radiohead scored three times in the Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Albums Poll:
#8 OK Computer
#17 The Bends
#26 Kid A
(thanks to everyone that submitted this link)
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New album info
From the NME:
Radiohead’s next album will be the “exact opposite” of ‘Amnesiac’ and ‘Kid A’ Thom Yorke has exclusively told NME.COM.
At their recent recording session in LA the band completed ten songs.
“We’ve done ten tracks that worked,” Yorke told NME.COM. “All we’ve done so far is stuff that sort of seemed to work at the time. We basically wanted to capture the whole performance thing really. Catching a particular moment, because ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ were quite heavily thought through, so we’re trying to do the exact opposite of that really.”
As revealed in NME last week, Radiohead spent two weeks at the Ocean Way studios in Los Angeles with producer Nigel Godrich, where they began work on their sixth studio album.
However, the singer put paid to rumours that this meant a return to the guitar sound made famous on early albums ‘The Bends’ and ‘OK Computer’.
When asked if the new record would be a guitar album he said: “Not really no, that’s the thing that would be a mistake to think, it’s just sort of capturing that energy.”
Of the new songs, Radiohead recorded a “good version” of new song ‘We Suck Young Blood’. However, Yorke said that, if anything, they suffer from having too many ideas in the studio.
“Again, it’s the same thing with us that the tone of the album’s only ever dictated by what you’re listening to, and each song’s different from the others. We’re trying lots of different angles at once, as usual,” he said.
From here, Radiohead will remain in the UK for more recording sessions with Godrich, with a view to releasing the currently untitled album early next year. Yorke said that if they don’t hit that release date, he’ll “go mad”. He joked: “Another two years doing a fucking record? We’ll go crazy!”
However, Yorke goes back out to the US later this month to play a rare solo show at the Bridge School Benefit Concert at the Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre (October 26-27).
(thanks to Sergio, Kev, & Sarah)
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Christopher O’Riley
Concert pianist and host of the radio program “From the Top”, Christopher O’Riley, is in Athens, GA right now recording an album which will include his interpretations of Radiohead’s music. Here’s some more info from Online Athens:
O’Riley has played the compositions recorded on the CD — namely those by British band Radiohead — publicly before, on his radio show, in concerts and as a guest on National Public Radio’s ”Performance Today.”
The response to a classical pianist — who’s earned top prizes at such prestigious competitions as Van Cliburn, Leeds, Busoni and Montreal, and won the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Memorial Chamber Music Prize — playing modern rock music was exceptionally positive. Mark Mobley, music producer for ”Performance Today,” was in fact so impressed he acted as producer for the project.
But the recording was something greater than O’Riley simply sitting at the piano playing his favorite Radiohead tunes.
”Not being an improviser, I didn’t think it was fair to approach the sessions without scoring each one,” he said. ”Before, it was more like I was playing ‘at’ these songs, sort of a rough sketch of what I came up with for the CD. … And I wanted to get the best of those ideas on paper. So I started about a week and a half ago getting all of these songs down — and it only took me about a week and half to figure out how completely unplayable they are,” he added with a laugh.
For those unfamiliar, Radiohead is a multi-Grammy winning and critically acclaimed band that plays richly textured orchestrations, often incorporating non-traditional instruments into their songs. So paring down such a host of sounds into a piece for the piano proved no small task.
Then again, to a classical musician whose fingers can find their way around Shostakovich, Radiohead’s intricacy is at least one reason the music is so appealing.
”Their sophistication is part of the hook of the group,” O’Riley admitted. ”But at the same time, the power of each component part — the lushness of this wall of sound created by three guitar players — isn’t something I can necessarily recreate. It’s more a matter of the lines and how they build up to create such a beautiful structure. The first thing that attracts me to any music is the way it creates a color or mood.”
O’Riley said he hasn’t received any feedback from the band about his piano compositions, and doesn’t necessarily expect to; though he found it rather funny that coincidentally, while he was in Athens recording, the band was in a Los Angeles recording studio just down the street from his house there.
Read the full article.
(thanks to Mark Mobley)