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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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U2, Radiohead, Muse get the Paul Oakenfold remix treatment

Superstar DJ PAUL OAKENFOLD has remixed U2, RADIOHEAD and MUSE on a new compilation album set for release just ahead of the upcoming Ibiza season. U2’s chart topper ‘Beautiful Day’, Muse’s ‘New Born’ and ‘Idioteque’ from Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ get the Perfecto boss’s treatment. More….

The BBC has an article up about Radiohead’s #2 debut in the US album chart with Anmesiac. {thanks to Chris}
Thom is on the cover of the June issue of the Japanese magazine Rockin’ On. {thanks to Rob}
There is an interview with Jonny at www.westord.com. {thanks to Joe}
City Pages has a review of Amnesiac. {thanks to Mike}
The Houston Chronicle has a cover story about Radiohead. {thanks to E.G.}

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Radiohead are doing a secret webcast

Radiohead are doing a secret webcast on June 9 at 10:30pm GMT. It will be a live stream from their recording of Later With Jools Holland. It wouldn’t be Radiohead if it wasn’t tricky: In order for you to listen to all tracks you will need to find four different links on the Web. Clues to their whereabouts are apparently hidden around the Net. We will bring you more information about this asap. {thanks to gibbs}

Jam! has done an interview with Jonny. You can read it here.

Radiohead will be playing a show at the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on September 18, 2001. Tickets will go on sale this Monday at www.globen.se. {thanks to Johan}

The new Radiohead.com is up. Go and enjoy!

More news soon. We’re busy revamping some of the site, including a total redesign of some sections.

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Tickets for the August 5

Tickets for the August 5 Radiohead show in Montreal will go on sale June 11 at 10am EDT at www.admission.com. {thanks to beno?t & eddie}

Also, it appears that Radiohead have added a date to their East Coast tour in Atlanta, GA on July 30. The venue and ticket information remains unknown at this point.

“Pyramid Song” is number 3 in the Top 20 list in Norway. {thanks to Marius}

Last night Thom and Jonny appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, an arts program, initially talking about their Humphrey Lyttleton collaboration, but also about the new album. Exerts from Pyramid Song, Glass House and Crushd Tin Box were played. The presenter commented on Pyramid Song’s bizarre tempo, and Thom replied: “Yeah you should of seem them on Top Of The Pops! They were really raving. Not!” {thanks to Joe}

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Vote Killerbear?

Vote Killerbear? If you visit the city of Nottingham (UK) you may see little posters of the Radiohead bear with the words “Vote Killerbear”. They are apparently in a lot of locations as documented here. What are they for? Who put them up? Did the band have something to do with it? These are questions that we can’t answer. Maybe it has something to do with the upcoming elections on June 7.

The NME has given Amnesiac an 8 of 10 rating. {thanks to Chris}

The setlist and review for last night’s show in Verona, Italy is here.

Thom, Colin, and Jonny appeared on Mark and Lard yesterday live from Verona. Thom and Colin played Wheel of Misfortune in which Thom confessed that they had picked “The Tourist” for the encore in France only to discover that they couldn’t remember (talk about Amnesia!) the last chord to the the song! They discovered this about 2 minutes before they went on stage and couldn’t locate a copy of OK Computer so the song was ditched. You can listen to the Thom and Colin’s Wheel of Misfortune and the Yes No Game with Thom at the Mark and Lard Site. The full interview should be available Online soon. {thanks to Paul}

To hear Thom’s solo version of “Pyramid Song” from the same show, check out http://www.kornmuse.fr.st. Apparently Jonng was itching to play drums with a Yamaha Beatbox or something… 🙂 {thanks to Titof}

According to Pitchforkmedia, a “Knives Out” EP will be released in the UK on July 24. {thanks to Keegan}

Two local bands, The Rock Of Travolta and Hester Thrale have been added to the support list at the July 7 Radiohead “hometown” show in Oxford. {thanks to Alex and Andrew}

Thom is interviewed in the latest edition of the Dutch magazine OOR.

The PinkPop festival, in which Radiohead is taking part of, will be available to watch and listen to Online at this Site on Monday, June 4. {thanks to Willem}

The concert that Radiohead played for Canal+ on April 28 will be aired on the following channels on June 5:
– Canal+ Spain @ 23:45
– Canal+ Sweden @ 21:35
– TELE PIU’ BIANCO (Italian satellite network) @ 6:05pm

A “Making of…” special will also be shown. {thanks to Linda}

There is supposedly going to be an Amnesiac listenening party on June 3rd at 8:00 PM at the Zia Records on University & Mill Ave. in Tempe, Arizona.
More Zia Records info: 105 W. University, Tempe, AZ (480) 829-1967. {thanks to Meggie}

Amnesiac will be released tomorrow in Ireland! {thanks to John}

Boris Becker is Thom Yorke? We didn’t even know you liked tennis Thom! {thanks to Nicolas}

Nude as the News has launched three new articles on Radiohead, including a review of the new album, a band profile and an odd piece of humor, called Trivee. ‘Head on over and check it out!

There is an article (in Portuguese) about Radiohead and their show recently in Bilbao, Spain at www.blitz.pt. {thanks to bey}

Mexican radio station Radioactivo is celebrating it’s 9th anniversary with many specials and contests, and they sure won’t leave Radiohead out of it. Here’s a list of Radiohead events in Radioactivo:

– June 4th: Amnesiac will go on sale, and radioactivo will be at Mixup G?nova (a record store in Mexico City)at 6:30 local time giving away special radiohead gifts to people who buy the cd.
– June 5th: Radioactivo will be airing one of Radiohead concerts in Dublin.
– During that week radioactivo will be giving away a trip to the U.S. to watch one the Radiohead concerts, so stay tuned and be ready to do whatever it takes to win that trip!.
oh, and there«s a poll at www.radioactivo.com.mx/98.5 about which is the most awaited cd. So far Amnesiac is in the lead.

{thanks to Nicolas}

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News for July 17, 2000

Oakenfold Remixes “Street Spirit”

Dance music legend Paul Oakenfold remixed Radiohead’s “Street Spirit” last Thursday night while spinning in Manhattan’s Roseland Ballroom. Here’s is a clip from a recent Sonicnet article:

“The highest and most telling point in Oakenfold’s set came as the diminutive but dapper Brit dropped an intense, pounding remix of Radiohead’s “Street Spirit” into the mix, which in its original form is one of the band’s softest and sparsest songs. The move worked the crowd into a wild frenzy. So much for Thom Yorke’s introspection, they were in the hands of a DJ tonight.”

You can read the full article here.

[thanks to SteveEYE]

Net the Debt Day

Thom updated his page at the official site again with this message:

“visit http://www.dropthedebt.org
tell all your friends/ websites etcetera to visit dropthedebt this friday 21st of july until then please carry on passing the word about the e-mail petition to the G7.
thankyou”

This is from the Drop the Debt page:

“In 1998 and 1999, Jubilee 2000 held massive, peaceful human chains around the meetings of the G7, over 50,000 people calling on the G7 leaders to drop the debt. This year the world leaders have found an island hideaway far from anywhere in Okinawa, Japan, to try and escape from Jubilee 2000’s demands. So this time, we will surround them on-line, linking up in a virtual human chain around the world which the leaders cannot ignore. On this site, you can link up with what’s happening in Okinawa and the leaders’ response to your campaigning. We are going to invite Bill Clinton and his G7 colleagues to come on this site on July 21, and tell you what they are going to do to drop the debt.”

Also, Jonny’s page was updated.

True Love Waits

At Ease has a “True Love Waits” performed in Tel Aviv on mp3 and real audio! Go and listen! What a great song!

Speaking of “True Love Waits”, you may remember a link put up last week to a video of Thom performing “True Love Waits” in Belgium in 1995. Nico, the guy who put up that video, had some interesting points that I thought I would share:

“We all know that the song was played for the first time in Belgium in 1995 and throughout the years the song has flown all around the Internet. We had confirmation on July 6 that this song was not going to be on the new album, right? The day after, I put a video of the song that was played in 1995 on my website and the day after that, there was a link to my site on almost every major Radiohead website (the sites that Radiohead themselves recommend to have the latest news, meaning Planet Telex, Green Plastic, etc…).

The day after that, my server exploded after receiving about 15,000 people wanting to download the video…

The day after that, the song was played by Thom in Israel in front of an audience for the first time in 5 years…

So is this a coincidence? I say Fuck No!”

Regardless as to what prompted Thom to play “True Love Waits”, the song is incredible and we can only hope that this song will make it on a future album or as a b-side! Please!