Author: Dylan

Radiohead are nominated for at the TEC Awards. Listed below are the nominees chosen by the Nominating Panel of the 20th Annual TEC Awards.
Record Production/Album
(Awards go to Recording Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Mixing Facility, Producer, Recording Studio, Mastering Engineer and Mastering Facility.)
Dangerously in Love, Beyonc?
Elephunk, Black Eyed Peas
Fallen, Evanescence
Hail to the Thief, Radiohead
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, OutKast
Tour Production
(Awards go to Tour Company, FOH Engineer and Monitor Engineer.)
David Bowie, Firehouse Productions
Toby Keith, Sound Image
Radiohead, Firehouse Productions
Simon & Garfunkel, Clair Brothers
Rod Stewart, Sound Image
A complete list of all nominees for each project may be found at www.mixfoundation.org.
The award ceremony will be on Saturday, October 30, 2004, at the Marriott in San Francisco.
(Thanks to At Ease.)

From the good people over at w.a.s.t.e.–
Hello, Mittens the office cat here,
I appear to be all on my lonesome in W.A.S.T.E. HQ at the moment. Mel and the others have gone on holiday.
Seeing as I didn’t get invited to go to the seaside with them, I’ve decided to get my own back, and I’m feline groovy.
As of today I have created a part of the store which I have called mittens mania. In mittens mania you will find that some of our newer shirts are at giveaway prices.
And I’ve pressed the button that means you won’t have to pay any postage when you buy from the mittens mania section, wherever you are in the world.
They all come back on the 1st July so get in there and stick ’em one from me.
That’ll teach them for leaving me behind, they’ll get into a whole heap of trouble for this.
moral of this tale…
Don’t mess with the cat !
Go to the sale.
Now, no shipping fees? That’s good news. I only wish they had some larger sizes for us, ahem, plump Americans. Hint hint…

A big thank-you to everyone who’s donated so far- we’re already at $105, about 1/12th of our $1200 goal. Please, keep it coming!
Donate here, and we’ll be eternally grateful!

French music channel, MCM, will broadcast Radiohead’s 2003 Eurock?ennes concert on Wednesday June 16th at midnight (Tuesday night). The show will run for 90 minutes and will be also be re-broadcast (19/06 at 01:30, 22/06 at 00:15, 29/06 at 02:00, 02/07 at 01:00 and 05/07 at 02:00).
(Thanks to At Ease).

According to the Mercury News, Jonathan Glazer, who directed the excellent videos for ‘Street Spirit’ and ‘Karma Police’ (as well as the remarkable Sexy Beast, is having a bit of trouble with his new film, Birth. Apparently, the film deals with Nicole Kidman falling in love with a 10-year-old whom she believes is the reincarnation of her dead husband, and some scenes involving her and the boy stripping and kissing in a bathtub (!) are not going over so well with New Line production heads.
After already going through multiple rewrites and creative battles, New Line is considering simply pulling the plug on the $50 million film, Glazer’s second.
Read the entire article here.

Fred Cooper is the man whose voice speaks to Macintosh users everywhere. Many years ago, the first Macintosh said “Hello. I am Macintosh” with Fred’s voice. On tidbits.com you can hear or read an interview with Fred, which was also used for Radiohead’s Fitter Happier.

Did you ever expect that your voice would become so popular? I’ve heard it in other things, such as Radiohead’s song Fitter Happier, and of course Stephen Hawking’s computerized voice.

Fred: The Radiohead thing was just a fluke. I spent maybe half an hour recording that, and at the time it made no sense. But when the song was mixed, it really came together. As for Dr. Hawking, I’m proud to have been the basis for his system. When I hear him speak, I don’t even hear myself any more, his ideas are so unique. But my wife likes to think that I’m the one talking about time and space occasionally.
(Thanks to At Ease.)
UPDATE: Not that it changes the content of the article terribly, because it’s obviously a bit of a joke, but if you notice the date of publication, it is, in fact, April 1st. Which is April Fools’ Day.
(Thanks to John.)