Author: Dylan

Beth writes in to say…
“Went to see Oxford based band Dive Dive at the Zodiac and lo and behold, Phil Selway came onstage and drummed the two final songs alongside Nigel (ex unbelievable Truth). Much vigorous handshaking prevailed…”
At Ease tracked down some pictures of the event, which you can see here.

From the Free Tibet Campaign’s official site:

Free Tibet Campaign is thrilled to offer the first original artwork ever to be made available for sale by long term Radiohead collaborators Dr T. Tchock and Stanley Donwood. As fans of the award winning band will know, Donwood is a major contributor to Radiohead, having produced the artwork for the band’s albums since their My Iron Lung EP in collaboration with “Dr. Tchock” aka Radiohead frontman, Thom Yorke.

Universally considered to be one of the greatest rock bands in the world, Grammy award winning Radiohead have realised phenomenal, multi-platinum success worldwide, having topped the charts in England, the USA, France, Japan, Canada, Israel, Ireland and Iceland. The band have championed many worthwhile causes, and are long term supporters of Free Tibet Campaign and the Tibetan cause.
We are delighted Stanley Donwood and Dr Tchock have created this fabulously detailed, signed and sealed, original piece for the Panchen Lama, and expect this piece of art and music history to make a real impact in the auction.

The art is 22″ x 30″, and is ink on paper. Starting price is 600 pounds, but if you can somehow swing it, you get a great piece of original art as well as the feeling that comes from donating to a truly awesome cause.

Click here to see what we speak of…

Hold Me to This, Christopher O’Rileys second album of Radiohead covers interpreted for piano, is slated for relase on April 12th on Harmonia Mundi. The tracklist is as follows:
There There
(Nice Dream)
No Surprises
Polyethylene Pt. 2
How I Made My Millions
Like Spinning Plates
Sail to the Moon
The Tourist
Cuttooth
2+2=5
Talk Show Host
Gagging Order
Paranoid Android
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
(Thanks to At Ease.)

anyboady beeen listening to rob da bank etc all the one music lot … i just listened to good show frm last week.. including autechre..
just curious to know, i am enjoying them and feeling slightly less i am living in a vacumn
thm
(Thanks to Jim.)

At Ease scored some more information about Jonny and Thom’s upcoming performance at the Ether Festival, courtesey of the South Bank Festival Hall Magazine.
Right at the core of Ether are the collaborations between the London Sinfonietta, the UK’s prime contemporary chamber orchestra, and electronic musicians from the underbelly of pop. This time Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is the main collaborator. Jonny has recently demonstrated his compositional chops by penning a soundtrack for the film Bodysong, which steers a path between romantic minimalism, free jazz and electronic soundscapes. Here he will present Smear, a piece originally composed for the Sinfonietta as part of last year’s Fuse festival in Leeds, along with new arrangements of Radiohead songs.
Middle Eastern music has had an enormous impact on Jonny, as is clear from the twisting harmonic structures of Radiohead; intriguingly he has also invited the Nazareth Orchestra, which is formed from Arab and Israeli musicians, to participate in the event. They will perform compositions associated with the singer Oum Kolthoum, who was known as the almost mythical voice of the Arab world of the 1930s and ’40s.
A key idea behind these collaborations with the Sinfonietta is the insertion into the programme of relevant classics from the 20th century classical repertoire. Past events have included works by Cage, Nancarrow, Stockhausen, Antheil and Ligeti, and the juxtaposition of genres has worked brilliantly, forging new alliances and drawing out the connections between the two worlds. The audience response to these innovations has been ecstatic, and this year’s collaboration has had to anticipate demand by occupying two nights. It will feature works by Messiaen, Ligeti and Penderecki, extending a line of thought right back to the heart of the last century. The Messiaen work will be a performance of a movement from his Quartet for the End Of Time, in an arrangement for six ondes martenots.”

In a move that should surprise pretty much nobody, the Poughkeepsie Journal says that promoters have scrapped plans for the two day/three night festival. Citing opposition from the locals (who objected to the “rampant drug and alcohol use” at a previous festival called Gathering of the Vibes), as well as the challenges of meeting the state permit guidelines, promoter Andrew Dreskin and the owner of the farm where the event was to take place have said they’d like to make it happen in 2006. Perhaps the locals will have moved by then?
Either way, better now than, you know, TWO DAYS BEFORE THE DAMN CONCERT.