Bluegrass heroine Gillian Welch covered ‘Black Star’ in a California concert. I can’t seem to find a crowd recording online yet, but one review says “Welch whispered the words to the song, which sounded like it could have been written for [Welch’s album] Time (The Revelator).”
Should be good…
If you would like one of the “No Star Wars” shirts that Thom wears, you can get one at the Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament website.
You may remember that Thom was present at the recent Fylingdales Rally to protest George Bush’s planned announcement of the Star Wars program.
For more information about the Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, head on over here.
(thank to Mel at w.a.s.t.e.)
Jamie Cullum, whose “All at Sea” has broken the British jazz singer and pianist into the mainstream, is about to break a little further.
For the follow-up and second single from Twentysomething, the self-taught musician is releasing his version of Radiohead’s 1995 single “High and Dry.”
“As well as writing songs, jazz musicians are always trying to take material and do new things with it,” Cullum said. “The notion of a standard is something that is 50 years old to most people. I only discovered [what are considered] old songs about three years ago. An old song to me is ‘High and Dry,’ which is a song I grew up with. I was 14. If you could play it on the guitar, you could kiss all the girls.”
Cullum plans to shoot a video for “High and Dry” later this month. “We’ve got a very strong idea, very mysterious, very different, so I wouldn’t want to give it away,” he said. More at MTV…
Vote Radiohead into Channel 4’s “UK Music Hall of Fame” by clicking here!
(thanks to Wesley)
Though it’s been rumored for some time now, the official Radiohead site now has info about the new Radiohead DVD entitled “The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of all Time.” Here is some info:
Radiohead Television, a 110 minute excursion into the bizarre.
From a glass-walled boardroom in west London, via a small spare room in Willesden, past the flood-torn wastes of Cornwall and the landfill sites of ‘picturesque’ rural Oxfordshire, a carefully-vetted team of ‘experts’ has been plotting to create a DVD containing films, animations and music never heard before. Channel 4 wouldn’t show it, for reasons that remain unclear. The BBC were busy. ITV and Channel 5 simply pretended we didn’t exist. But our ‘experts’ are certain that the discerning public must be allowed to view this material.
Containing music from Radiohead’s ‘Hail to the Thief’ as well as tracks unreleased before, set to a collection of perhaps the strangest videos you’ve seen on your teevee, and introduced by the one-and-only, the incorrigible, the indefatigable, the certifiable Chieftan Mews…
It is, without doubt, The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of all Time.
The NPPA has voted Jason Bell of Time Magazine a 2nd place winner for Magazine Portraiture & Personality. The entries are judged on how well the picture captures an aspect of the subject’s character. Jason Bell’s subject is Thom Yorke. See more here.
(thanks to Brenda)