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Another festival appearance by Radiohead has been announced in an email by w.a.s.t.e.:
w.a.s.t.e is very pleased to announce that Radiohead will be headlining the following date………………..
Hultsfred Festival – Sweden on the 13th June 2003
The festival runs from the 12th June to the 14th June 2003
Three day-tickets prices are 1,220 SEK (approx. ?85) (on sale now)
On-line tickets – www.ticnet.se
Ticket Hotline +46 77 170 70 70
All info about the festival can be found at www.rockparty.se
The recent loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew is something that we will never forget and our hearts go out to the families of the astronauts.
As you may or may not know, every morning on the shuttle the crew is awaken by music selected by flight controllers in the Mission Control Center. The Columbia “Blue Team” crew were woken up on day 5 by Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees”. You can download the actual song at this page (the page is down often so keep on checking). At the end of the song, you can hear Mission Control greet the astronauts and dedicate the song to pilot William C. McCool who responded that “Radiohead is my favorite group.”
It has also been learned that McCool took a copy of OK Computer on the shuttle with him.
(thanks to Bakes)
In August 2001, it was rumored that Radiohead and the Los Angeles Philharmonic were planning on doing something together. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen even stated that he had dinner with the band and discussed such a collaboration.
In a recent interview with the LA Times, Salonen talks more about his love for rock music and Radiohead. Here’s an excerpt from the article:
It was later, when Salonen was around 30, that he came to listen to rock more seriously, as something more than just background music to good times.
“I think it had to do with my feeling that European Modernist music had come to a cul-de-sac,” he says. “There was nothing below the chin. There was a certain type of energy I discovered in rock and pop music, a focus on how the body reacts to music as opposed to how the intellect reacts.”
The breakthrough came a few years ago, with Radiohead’s alienated, sometimes drifty 1997 LP. “When I heard ‘OK Computer,’ after five minutes I said, ‘I actually get this. I understand what these people are trying to do.’ And what they were trying was not so drastically different from what I was trying to do.”
Salonen met the band’s Colin and Johnny Greenwood for dinner one night when he was in London. “Out of this old habit I started speaking to them about classical music the way you do with an aunt of 85 years old, assuming they know nothing. But, of course, in two minutes I realized these guys know perfectly well. They were sort of amused when I said, ‘Have you heard about this French composer Olivier Messiaen?’ And Johnny Greenwood said, ‘Yes, I own a couple of his old Ondes-Martenots” — rare early electronic keyboards.
Radiohead is popular among many intellectuals. Brainy jazz musician Brad Mehldau has recorded the band’s songs, classical pianist Christopher O’Riley has performed a recital of them. The latest American Musicological Society conference included several academic papers on the Oxford group.
But Salonen says he’s attracted to the band not just for musical and intellectual reasons, but also because they move him emotionally. He hopes to collaborate with the group in some form. “They’re not predictable, and the form is not boring. There’s a sense of humor and self-irony in the music, which is very rare in the world of rock and pop because those people take themselves very seriously. It’s really refreshing to hear a little bit of distance.”
Read the full article…
(thanks to Mia, David, Richfield, & Brandon)
From w.a.s.t.e.:
w.a.s.t.e is very pleased to announce that Radiohead will be headlining the following dates:
Southside Festival Germany – Fri 20th June 2003
Hurricane Festival Germany – Sun 22nd June 2003
Ticket prices are Euro 79,00 plus Euro 5,00 – Euro deposit for garbage bag (will be refunded on bag return)
Telephone Ticket Service is +49-40 853 88 853
Websites are www.hurricane.de and www.southside.de
General announcement of the festival will be on the 2nd February 2003 and tickets will go on sale on this date.
from the NME:
RADIOHEAD’s “self-assured” new album is a culmination of the best aspects of their last four records.
The record, the group’s sixth, is due for mid-June, with working titles ‘2+2=5’ and ‘Are You Listening’. Recording is now complete, although sessions on the record are expected to continue until at least mid-February.
O’Brien revealed that the atmosphere in the band is “fucking brilliant” compared to the frosty recording sessions for their last two albums ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac, and that the new songs contain “space and sunshine and energy”.
He commented: “You know that time when bands begin to swagger, like when the Stones got in a grove from ’68 to ’73? In the last two years, I think we’ve done that. To me, this record feels like the culmination of the best bits of ‘The Bends’, ‘OK Computer’, ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’.
Speaking to Q, drummer Phil Selway added: “I don’t think we’ve ever felt so self assured in the studio. This time no shit hit the fan. And Thom’s voice has been incredible. That’s the stand out element for me. He’s reminded us that he’s in a league of his own.”
Radiohead are strongly rumoured to be playing at this year’s Glastonbury festival, while internet sources claim a slot at the Coachella festival in the US this Spring is also a possibility.
(thanks to Freeze, Joe, Sergio, & Matt)
The official site for Bodysong is online at www.bodysong.com. If you view the “Bodysong Interactive” piece, you can hear some of Jonny Greenwood’s music he composed for the film. There is also a Q & A with Jonny and the film’s director, Simon Pummell.