Tonight, Radiohead will take the stage in Lisbon, Portugal. This will be their first concert in quite some time and we expect that a lot of new material will be played.
Author: Jonathan
New York, NY
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Radiohead’s Antivideos
Postmodern Culture has published Joseph Tate’s essay on Radiohead’s antivideos, “Radiohead’s Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction.” It’s available online here.
Definitely check it out!
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Friends of the Earth
Radiohead are backing a FRIENDS OF THE EARTH campaign to raise environmental awareness in the run-up the forthcoming Earth Summit.
Friends of The Earth have set up an audio website at www.radioearthsummit.org, where they are asking people to submit messages prior to next month’s Earth Summit in South Africa.
The aim is to raise awareness of the pressing need to act on the issue of the environment.
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has contributed a message, while the band have donated a rare video for ‘Motion Picture Sountrack’, as well as an audio stream of the song.
In his message, Yorke said: “The Earth Summit is the only opportunity we have left to address the hijacked free trade agenda of the WTO, to make the environment inextricably linked to poverty and the global divide of 1st and 3rd world, to make corporations accountable for the environmental effects of their business, wherever they choose to hide, and to make wealthy countries take responsibility for the impact their over-consumption has on the rest of the world.
“It is not good enough to preach about the trickle down effect of economic growth if your house is being washed away, your child has skin cancer, you can’t get clean water and the weather is changing beyond recognition, forever.”
Radiohead are currently working on a new album, and will premiere songs from the record on a tour of Portugal and Spain later this month.
– from NME.
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RH on live mp3s
After last week’s story about meetingpeopleiseasy.de facing a legal fine for hosting some live mp3s, I emailed Mel from w.a.s.t.e. to let Radiohead and their management know what was happening. Her response was:
“Although Radiohead do not object to MP3’s of their live music on the internet, unfortunately they do not own it.
All recorded music (whether live or not) is the property of EMI, and EMI’s world-wide piracy policy is very different to ours.
We are all concerned that these people face a fine, given many did not receive the initial warning e-mails (for whatever reason that may be).”
Please continue to support MPIE by visiting http://support.meetingpeopleiseasy.de/
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Donwood interview
Below is an excerpt form the recent interview Stanley Donwood did with Idea Magazine:
About Yourself
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I was born in essex, england.? thirty-three years before some aeroplanes flew into the world trade center, new york, america.? my hometown was a small town where nothing much happened.? i didn’t know about anywhere else so i stayed there for nearly twenty years.? once i left i did not return.? i have had many horrible jobs.? the worst one was cleaning huge pots that were used for boiling pork.? i do not eat meat which made this task more repellant than it could have been.? the best job i had was window-cleaning.? we had a van and didn’t work very hard.? i liked seeing inside other people’s houses.? i worked on many farms.? bailing hay was pleasant but hard work.
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i was lucky enough to get into college but i didn’t work as hard as i should have.? i didn’t realise that until i left and it was too late.? i have always wanted to write and draw so thats what i did at college.? i made books.? after college i did more terrible jobs.? in my spare time i made posters to put up around the city and sneaked about at night with a pot of paint and a brush.? i painted pictures on derelict buildings.
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when i had children i moved away because there was a lot of heroin around.? in the city where i still live i became an unpaid artist in residence at a cyber cafe.? the cafe closed so i took over the building became a designer.? but i lost money and had to find other work.? by a stroke of luck a friend from college phoned me and asked if id like to work on a cover for a record his band were releasing.? the record was ‘my iron lung’ and the band were called radiohead.? fortunately radiohead became successful and i was able to continue working with them.? because of that i sometimes get work from other people.? this is much better than cleaning pots used to boil pork.
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Influences
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I can’t remember what or who i liked when i was at college.? maybe Hieronymus Bosch and Andy Warhol.? now, i can’t remember either.? but ill write some names that come into my head.? david shrigley, g sus, john constable, banksy, cex, miss kitten, gerald kersh, antonia bird, werner herzog, michael nyman, chuck palahniuk, haruki murakami, andy goldsworthy, richard brautigan, mutoid waste company, iain sinclair, banana yashimoto.? there are lots more but in sitting here just thinking and nothing much is coming out.
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Radiohead
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my attitude when i work with radiohead is to try to hear the pictures in the music.? that sounds stupid but its the only way i can?explain it.? the best thing i can think of is how i felt when kid a was finished.? it was as is i hadn’t done anything at all.? my hands were guided by the music.? maybe i didn’t think at all.? it sounds so crazy but i hope you understand.? listen to music and close your eyes while you have a pen in your hand and a piece of paper on the table.? let your hand be moved by the music.? when the song is finished open your eyes and see what you have done.
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i like to think that the pictures i draw for each record are a reasonable interpretation of the music i hear.? thom and me work next to each other telling each other what we like and don’t like.? when we finally agree on a picture thats pretty much how it ends up.? we make a lot?more pictures than we need then choose the best ones.
(thanks to John)
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Zero 7
Zero 7 was recently interviewed for Remix Magazine and they talked about their involvment with Radiohead and especially how their remix of “Climbing Up the Walls” came about. Click here to read it.
(thanks to Draftriots)