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Canal + Concert

MTV USA will be airing the Canal + Radiohead show from Paris tomorrow (Friday) at 1am ET. {thanks to Eric, Daniel, & Steve}

Two more ticket auctions
You can now bid on tickets to both the Toronto and Montreal shows here. Proceeds go to charity!

An apple a day…
Nigel Godrich and Chris Bran are interviewed on the Apple site. {thanks to Fred}

Radiohead compared to Michael Bolton?
For a chuckle, read this review of Amnesiac. {thanks to Steve}

Knives Out on MuchMusic
MuchMusic will be playing the “Knives Out” video on their show “The Wedge” tomorrow at 11pm ET. {thanks to Laila}

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Nigel interview

Radiohead’s unofficial sixth member, Nigel Godrich, has been interviewed by The Guardian Online. Nigel talks about computers, Napster, and why pen and paper is better than a Palm Pilot. {thanks to Spooky & Kate}

More Chicago Tickets!
According to Q101 FM, a limited number of additional tickets will go on-sale this Saturday (7/21) at 10am at all Ticketmaster outlets and the Park West Box Office for the August 1 show at Hutchinson Field in Grant Park (just South of Buckingham Fountain and North of Arvey Field) in Chicago. Tickets will NOT be available Online… only at the box office and TM outlets. Q101’s Robert Chase will be giving away tickets all this week between 10am – 2pm. Listen for your chance to be caller 101 at 312-591-8300 to win! {thanks to emil}

Radiohead Night
MTV 2 (UK) will be doing a “Radiohead Night” on July 23, 2001 starting at 9pm. Expect lots of goodies including interviews, live footage, and videos! {thanks to Poky & Gary Faulder}

Meeting People is Easy
The Bloor Cinema, located at 560 bloor west (Bloor and Bathurst) 416-516-2330, in Downtown Toronto will be showing Meeting People Is Easy on Friday, July 20 at 9:30 pm as a part of the opening night of the Britpics movie fest. {thanks to Marc}

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Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara

The band played their first of two shows at the Santa Barbara Bowl last night. Setlist and reviews coming soon…

Thommmmmayyyyyy!
Though they wouldn’t give us much details about the upcoming show with Radiohead, South Park Studios did say that “Radiohead has a lot of fans here at South Park” and that Radiohead will be doing their own voices for the show, which airs on Comedy Central July 11 at 10PM EDT. MMMKKayyyyyy…

Nigel on Ground Zero
Nigel will be interviewed on the radio program Ground Zero today at 12PM PT on KCRW in Los Angeles. Nigel tells host Chris Douridas the intriguing tale of how he moved from being the tea boy at a London studio to becoming one of the most sought-after sonic gurus in the world. He also discusses the making of ground-breaking albums like Radiohead’s “Kid A” and “Amnesiac” as well as Travis’ “The Invisible Band.” The show will also be available to listen to Online at the KCRW.com Website starting at noon as well. A repeat will air tomorrow at 10AM PT. {thanks to Paul}

Spin baby spin
Spin With A Grin has been updated. {thanks to Tom}

Wire
This month’s issue of Wire Magazine has an article on Radiohead, which includes an interview with Thom and Jonny and has some very insightful details on the making of both Amnesiac and Kid A. There’s a b&w shot of Thom’s face on the cover. {thanks to Gabriel}

May I Take Your Order?
How did Colin spend his birthday in San Francisco? The SF Chronicle knows!

“The British rock group Radiohead celebrated band member Colin Greenwood’s 32nd birthday at Lapis in San Francisco on Tuesday. Executive chef Thomas Ricci cooked vegan food for lead singer Thom Yorke; he was rewarded with a menu signed by all the band members.”

Also from the Chronicle, a review of the Mountain View show. {thanks to Deirdre & Joanne}

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News for September 11, 2000

The first iBlip is now available!
You can now view the first installment of the iBlip courtesy of Capitol Records! Click http://by.imedium.com/radiohead/launch/166.htm.

This week’s iBlip includes:

  • Radiohead postcards you can send in the U.S. Mail
  • the blips
  • Radiohead photo gallery


Coming next week, the iBlip will include:

  • September 18th – Participate in the worldwide debut of KID A on the BBC, which also includes an interview with the band
  • September 19-22nd – Kid A will be streamed for four days


Coming soon:

  • download of a live track (Permanent Daylight)
  • a live webcast
  • much more…

Many thanks to Mark!

Kid A Everywhere

As many of you know, the studio versions of Kid A are floating all around the internet. Nigel was on the official message board and had this to say:

” It is literally too much traffic to be able to have a proper chat on here any more. Suffice it to say that personally I don’t really mind that the albums up. If I’ve ever downloaded anything I liked, I’ve always gone and bought it afterwards. I mean, you can’t really have a relationship with a file, can you? …Thats what the cult of record buying is all about. If more people hear the album because it’s easily accessible then good. If they like it and can afford it then I believe they’ll buy it. It’s actually quite fascinating to watch people getting it too!!!! Thanks for your help.”

[thanks to darren and rich]

*please don’t ask us where or how to find the mp3s…

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News for June 20, 2000

PJ HarveyRADIOHEAD’s THOM YORKE sings a duet with POLLY HARVEY on her new album and provides backing vocals for two more tracks, nme.com can reveal.

Following speculation that the two had collaborated, Harvey rang nme.com to explain that she wrote the duet, called “This Mess We’re In”, specifically with Yorke in mind. She said of Yorke: “He just came over to the studio for a couple of days. He’s an extremely wonderful musician, he came up with some very unusual ideas for the songs. He’s

Yorke also sings on two more tracks, “Beautiful Feeling” and “One Line”. Other track titles include “Big Exit”, “Kamikaze” and “The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore”.

Recent Radiohead Shows

Time for catch up here…

For the setlists and other info on recent shows in Frejus, France, and the two Milan shows, head on over to the brand spankin’ new 2000 Radiohead Tour Guide! Just click on the date of your choice.

If you were lucky enough to catch one of the recent shows, why don’t you spread the wealth the rest of the world! Please send us your concert reviews, setlists, photos, audio, or anything else deemed interesting and ‘head.

Speaking of the Frejus show, Sam over at okcomputer.ctw.cc has put up the mp3’s of that show!

Nigel speaks

The dynamic duo of Aurelien and Mona, maintainers of the French Radiohead fanclub ne pas a.v.a.l.e.r., recently talked to Nigel Godrich (Radiohead’s producer) at the Arles, France show last week. He said that the new album will be released at the beginning of October, but there is still no exact date set. He was really excited to see what the new songs will be like in front of an audience, and was seen dancing along with the concert in the sound booth. He couldn’t reveal the title of the album, but said it “will all make sense”.

[check out ne pas a.v.a.l.e.r.]

RealAudio of new songs

For those who can’t bother with the hassles of downloading the mp3’s recorded and encoded by Sam at okcomputer.ctw.cc, go to the Green Plastic Audio section for all the new songs in streaming realaudio, along with some of the Eureka Street soundtrack songs that Ed worked with, courtesy of James Ballardie.

Did you get yours?

Tickets for the Newport, London, Glasgow, and Cheshire Tent shows went on sale last Saturday and all three London dates sold out like hot cakes. Ticket still remain for the other three cities, so check out www.radiohead.com/03.html for info on purchasing tickets.

If you would like to purchase a package deal that includes hotel stay for one or more nights and a ticket to one or all of the September London shows, go to latestevents.com!

Bjork Slots Soundtrack Date, Chat

“Selmasongs,” Bjork’s soundtrack to “Dancer In The Dark,” the award-winning film in which she also stars, is now set for release on September 19.

Songs from the album will be culled entirely from music and dialogue in the film and, according to Bjork’s spokesperson at Elektra Records, “will be more like a Broadway cast recording than a soundtrack.”

“I’ve Scene It All,” a duet between Bjork and Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, also will be included on the soundtrack.

Last month, Bjork earned Best Actress honors at the Cannes Film Festival for her portrayal of “Selma,” a Czech immigrant living in the United States who has a hereditary disease which causes blindness. The musical, which was helmed by “Breaking The Waves” director Lars Von Trier, also won the festival’s Palme D’Or for best film.

“Dancer In The Dark” is scheduled to hit U.S. theaters in the fall.

Bjork will discuss the soundtrack and other topics during a live Web chat on the ARTISTdirect network (www.artistdirect.com) on Thursday at 4 p.m. (ET).

[from MTV]

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News for June 14, 2000

Radiohead have been forced to scrap their gig tonight (June 14th) at the THEATRE ANTIQUE DE VAISON LA ROMANE in the South Of France after torrential rain made conditions impossible for them to play.

Yesterday’s gig, the band’s first of the Millennium, was played in the Theatre Antique D’Arles, a Roman amphitheater.

A spokesperson for the band told nme.com: “The whole site is now flooded and there’s lightning and everything. The band had to pull the whole thing for safety reasons. They’re trying to reschedule the date as we speak.”

As exclusively revealed by nme.com yesterday, the band debuted seven new songs at their show in Arles last night – though even then, there were worries that rain might stop play, though the weather turned clement just before the band took to the stage.
[from NME]

Here are some more quick notes about last night’s show in Arles, France:

Right before Radiohead came on stage, the rain was so heavy that the lights went out and the band played without lighting.
For the new song “In Limbo”, Ed plays keyboards.

“Everything In It’s Right Place”, another new song, had Jonny using a touch screen sampler.

We will bring you information as it comes in about tonight’s show in Vaison La Romaine, France, later today! Stay tuned!

In other news…
It is rumored that Radiohead maybe adding another tent date to their European tour this fall, this time at the Punchestown Racecourse in Dublin, Ireland, on October 7.

Nothing has been confirmed yet, so stay tuned!

Here’s an article from Rollingstone.com:
Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood has revealed to Belgium’s Humo and Holland’s Oor magazines that the band has recorded enough songs with producer Nigel Godrich to release two albums. The first, which will have about ten to eleven tracks, is expected to come out on schedule this fall, followed by a second a year later. Though Radiohead had about thirty songs in the can, they nixed the idea of a double album because “We want to avoid the classic rock & roll traps,” Greenwood told Humo. “Even the best double albums . . . would have been even better if half the songs had been deleted . . . If the White Album had been one single album, no one would dare say Sgt. Pepper’s is the best Beatles record.” As of yet, the upcoming fourth album remains untitled. Song titles include “How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found,” “Kid A,” “Everything in Its Right Place,” “Everyone (National Anthem),” “Motion Picture Soundtrack,” “Idioteque,” “Morning Bell” and “Nothing to Fear (Egyptian Song).” Two tracks feature an extensive string section, one track includes backing by a jazz band and another, with the aid of ProTools, has Thom Yorke singing backwards. Now all they have to do is figure out how to pull that last one off live . . .

[thanks to Ultragrrrl]