Radiohead will be featured on the next four (!) Ongoing History of Music shows on Toronto’s Edge 102 FM.
The show, hosted by Alan Cross, airs every Monday at 11pm (Toronto/EST time, 0300 GMT), You can listen online here .
UPDATE- Leilah points out that Monday is the repeat- the original airing of the show is Sunday night at 7pm (2300 GMT)
(Thanks to Leilah)
Treefingers says- “Radiohead played at the Sound Advice Amphitheater in West Palm Beach on October 4th. During the song Idioteque, there was a small fire near Phil.
“Ed was looking really worried and people in the pit looked at each other smelling something burning. It was one of the fog machines a bunch of roadies rushed to the scene. It looked like it was getting out of hand and they all collectively removed the burning device off stage.”
I was actually at that show, and relatively close to the front. While I didn’t see a fire, I can attest that there was definitely a fog machine going ape on stage, to the point where you could hardly see Phil.
UPDATE: I didn’t see a fire, but Daniel certainly did…
hello. to clarify a bit, i was front row just to the right of thom at the west palm beach gig, and i can tell you that there was certainly a small fire. at some point during idioteque you could see some smoke and then the flames (reaching a couple feet tall). it could have been a fog machine or a fan.
ed and phil looked a bit worried as the fire was just behind phil to his left. the band members were pointing at it and to people backstage to do something about it quick, because it got out of hand very quickly. knowing all the lights and electrical items close by, it could have been a disaster.
first someone ran to it with a big fireblanket trying to beat it out? and that didn’t work and someone finally ran onstage with the fire extinguisher. from the smells, surely thom knew of something going wrong, but he never wavered the slightest bit. after the fire was out, the bandmates seemed to be smiling big in relief or humor. who knows.
(Thanks to Daniel)
We’re a bit late on this one, but the UK’s Daily Mail rated the top 20 moments in pop music in their October 16th edition, and Radiohead scored #16.
The Top 20 is as follows:-
1. Elvis Presley’s record sessions at Sun studios which produced the That’s All Right single (1954)
2. Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival (1965)
3. The Clash release White Riot (1977)
4. The Beatles appear on US TV’s The Ed Sullivan Show (1964)
5. The Rolling Stones release Jumpin’ Jash Flash (1968)
6. Jimi Hendrix plays the Monterey Pop Festival (1967)
7. Neil Young releases Time Fades Away, the first of a trio of uncompromisingly dark albums (1973)
8. John Lennon releases the Imagine album (1971)
9. Nirvana emerge as one of the world’s must-see live acts during a UK tour (1990)
10. Led Zeppelin release their first LP (1969)
11. Sex Pistols’ foul-mouthed appearance on ITV (1976)
12. Pink Floyd release Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
13. Marvin Gaye threatens to quit Motown unless What’s Going On is released (1970)
14. Brian Wilson / The Beach Boys release Pet Sounds (1966)
15. Bob Marley seeks out Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry to produce the Wailers (1970)
16. Radiohead’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood sabotages lead singer Thom Yorke’s song Creep (1992)
17. The Velvet Underground are fired from Caf? Bizarre in New York after performing the The Black Angel’s Death Song twice (1965)
18. Frank Sinatra records Someone to Watch Over Me (1945)
19. Blondie’s Heart of Glass reaches number one in Britain (1979)
20. The Kinks’ Waterloo Sunset puts London at the centre of the Swinging Sixties (1967)
(Thanks to At Ease)
From Wired Magazine:
Pink Floyd used to be your escort to the dark side of the moon. Now it’s Moby. The electropop star scored SonicVision, the new multimedia show at the Hayden Planetarium in New York. “I’m a geek who grew up obsessed with outer space,” says Moby. “The only problem was, I wasn’t bright enough to be a scientist.” His hit “We Are All Made of Stars,” along with tunes by Radiohead, Stereolab, the Flaming Lips, and others, accompany the 35-minute animated movie that takes visitors through an observatory’s ceiling and into an alien dance party. Seven projectors beam the film onto the Hayden’s 68-foot-tall dome while 23 speakers provide a visceral kick. Strap on the jet boosters – it’s time to get your groove on.
PLAYLIST:
Boards of Canada / “Julie and Candy”
David Bowie / “Heroes”
The Flaming Lips / “Do You Realize?”
Moby / “Into the Blue” and “We Are All Made of Stars”
Queens of the Stone Age / “First It Giveth”
Radiohead / “Everything in Its Right Place”
Stereolab / “Metronomic Underground”
U2 / “Elevation”
According to a brief interview in the New York Times (with the unfortunate title Streets Smarts), Brit rapper Mike Skinner, a.k.a. The Streets, has no use for Radiohead.
An excerpt-
“My sister, she thinks that you should be able to find your own meanings in songs. She likes Radiohead. I’m not like that. All that ‘I’m just a fish in the sea, I’m so lonely’ — that’s kind of rubbish. There is nothing on my record that you can’t understand literally.”
I think that says pretty much everything right there…but you can read the rest here.
Sigur R?s’ UK site has some great pictures (of both bands) from the Merce Cunningham Split Sides event in Brooklyn, as well as some reviews.
See them here.
(Thanks to Ara)