Ananova reports that Merce Cunningham’s Split Sides, for which Radiohead and Sigur Ros composed some live music for earlier this year, will be headed over to Europe next year. Ananova says the band will again play live when the tour hits London’s Barbican Centre in October 2004 but NME says that they will not, they’ll just use a remixed version of the current music.
Read the complete (and slightly contradictory) articles here and here.
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After debuting last week at #15 on the UK charts, 2+2=5 has dropped 29 places to #44.
See the chart here.
A glowing review of last night’s show in Glasgow can be found at the Glasgow Evening Times.
An excerpt-
“Rockers Radiohead played a breathtaking gig in front of 10,000 fans at the SECC last night.
The band breezed through an eclectic set that included a sharp dose of their old adrenaline-fuelled grinding rock tracks, a huge dollop of new songs and an awesome combination of lights and visuals.
The Oxford indie veterans crammed a wealth of material into the two-hour set, and effortlessly combined the early grungey tendencies of Just with the drum ‘n’ bass ferocity of newer songs from the era of Kid A, Amesiac and their latest album, the massively acclaimed Hail To The Thief.”
Read the entire review here.
Treefingers reports that Punchup At A Wedding will be the fourth single off Hail To The Thief in the UK (the third in America- we’re still waiting on 2+2=5). There is a promo CD making the rounds, with the radio edit as the only track (trimming the original 4:57 down to 3:50).
(Thanks to Treefingers.)
UPDATE: Ah, but James says that Punchup isn’t getting a UK release…it’s only a “radio single” for the US.
According to this week’s Radiohead article in NME, Thom was nervous about a possible US backlash because of his views on President Bush.
From NME-
“The band have spent much of the autumn on tour in America supporting their current album ?Hail To The Thief?. Thom said that because of his public anti-war stance and the perceived anti-Bush album title, the band feared some kind of backlash.
“We were sort of worried about the reaction to what we had been saying when we went over there,” Thom told NME.COM. “Colin (Greenwood, bassist), whose wife is American, didn?t see a problem at all. It turned out that he was right, when you met people face to face the resistance, disgust and dismay was obvious.”
Thom said that some of the band?s older songs have taken on new meanings. He continued: “When we played ?No Surprises? a huge cheer would go up every night over the line ?Bring down the government / They don’t speak for us..?. Although in Houston, Texas it was a little err…muted shall we say”
You can read the entire article here.
Pitchfork Media, the eternal hipster homepage, has again revised their best 100 albums of the 90s list, and OK Computer has replaced My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless as the #1 album.
The Bends also makes an appearance at #15.
See the list here.
(Thanks to Brenda and Zach.)