Month: May 2000

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News for May 15, 2000

Rankin Gallery
World famous photographer, Rankin, will have his work displayed at The Proud Galleries in London from May 25 until July 2, 2000. Rankin has taken photographs of many celebrities, including Thom Yorke. The admission price is £3 (Concessions £2). Address is The Proud Galleries, 5 Buckingham Street, London, WC2N 6BP. Phone is 0171 839 4942. A book is to be published by Vision On (RRP £25) alongside the exhibition and will contain all the pictures from the show and more.

(thanks to gail and phoebe)

Scott Walker on Thom Yorke
As earlier reported, Radiohead will be part of this year’s Meltdown 2000 Festival, hosted by 60’s legend, Scott Walker. In the latest issue of Time Out, London’s Entertainment Guide, Mr. Walker commented on Radiohead and specifically Thom:

“I feel honoured that they are going to be here. They’re a perfect integral band. They also possess the great lyric singer of his time. The thing about lyric singing is not particularly the voice, its phrasing and you can’t teach that. Thom Yorke happens to have both.”
(thanks to gail)

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News for May 10, 2000

Here is a snippet from a recent interview that Les Inrockuptibles, a French Magazine, had with Bjork:

Les Inrocks : In this movie, you sing in duet with Thom Yorke, don’t you?

Bjork : I always wanted to collaborate with him, to mix our voices… so, Selma (Bjñrk’s character) sings with Thom Yorke in her dreams. These kind of things never happen in the real life. But in a dream, you can sing with Thom Yorke.
(Many thanks to our friend, Lunargirl)

In case you’ve been out of the loop, Thom is doing a duet with Bjork for her new film, Dancer in the Dark.

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News for May 8, 2000

Thom updated his page at the official Radiohead site recently. Here is a portion of what was originally there:

” The delgados album is fucking great–the great eastern
the clinic album is also great
also i like sigor ros from iceland i think they are amazing
clinic and laika are supporting us
laika are great.
why arent all these bands really famous?
also Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Shahen-shahis great!
i am so tired im working stupid hours trying to get everything finished also rehearsing.
come on stanley lets change the front page shall we? i know were busy and everything but.. . ”
(thanks to Elis)

Shortly after this was posted, it was taken down and re-written. Go to his page for the newest one.

He mentioned that Clinic and Laika will be the supporting bands during the band’s summer tour. Here are the dates in which Laika will be the opening act:

Theatre Antique d’Arles, France (June 13)
Theatre Antique de Vaison, France (14)
Barcelona Teatro Tivoli, Spain (15),
Arenes de Frejus, France (17)
Milan Villa Reale, Italy (18 & 19)
Florence Piazza Santa Croce, Italy (21 & 22)

The dates that Clinic will be a part of have not been announced yet. For more info on Laika, go to this site. A Clinic site can be found here.

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OK Computer Radiohead

News for May 5, 2000

Change of Venue and Time for MPIE Tonight
Tonight’s showing of Meeting People is Easy has moved to another venue (about 5 minutes away from the one reported yesterday) and will be shown at a new time. The new location is at Mt Holyoke College, S. Hadley, Mass. The film will begin at 9:30 p.m. If you haven’t seen Meeting People is Easy yet, please go and see it!

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News for May 4, 2000

Meeting People is Easy Showing at Amherst College

Grant Gee’s documentary and film about Radiohead and their OK Computer tour of 1997/98 will be showing at the Stirn Auditorium at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. The film will be showing tomorrow night (May 05) at midnight. (check above for update)

(thanks to Amanda)

Another Attempt at TRL
Members of the official Radiohead message board are organizing another attempt to get MTV to play a Radiohead video on their popular request show, Total Request Live. This time, however, the video for “Just” will be the one to vote for. The plan is to have everyone vote on May 11, and you can vote by going to the TRL page at MTV.com at http://www.mtv.com/sendme.tin?page=/mtv/tubescan/trl99_new/.

TRL airs daily at 3:30 p.m. (ET)

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News for May 2, 2000

Meeting People is Easy on Sundance Channel

The Sundance Channel will be showing the critically acclaimed Radiohead tour documentary/film 9 times this month. If you haven’t seen it, definitely check it out! The times are:

Friday, May 5: 8:00 AM & 5:30 PM
Thursday, May 11: 10:30 AM & 7:25 PM
Monday May 15: 9:00 AM & 4:00 PM
Saturday, May 20: 11:00 AM
Tuesday, May 30: 2:00 PM & 4:30 AM.

All times above are in Eastern time. If you don’t have the Sundance Channel, call your local cable or satellite company.

Radiohead #2!

Radiohead’s OK Computer was listed as #2 in a recent poll of the “100 Greatest British Albums Ever” by music writers for Q, a British music magazine. They were beat only by the Beatles. Here’s the top ten:

1. Revolver – The Beatles
2. OK Computer – Radiohead
3. Exile on Main Street – Rolling Stones
4. London Calling – The Clash
5. A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles
6. Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
7. The Beatles (the White Album) – The Beatles
8. (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? – Oasis
9. Blue Lines – Massive Attack
10. Never Mind The Bollocks – Sex Pistols

Congrats goes to Radiohead!
You can see the rest of the poll in the newest issue of Q magazine.