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Kid A on the radio
We’ve heard that the entire Kid A album will be played on Radio 21, a Belgian radio station, on September 20, 2000. More info when it’s available.
Kid A will also be played on September 18th on BBC Radio 1 and again on the 19th on XFM. You may listen to the Radio 1 broadcast here.
More Playbacks!
An announcement was made on the official message board this morning that there would be more Kid A playbacks! Here’s what was posted:
Here’s an idea that may please some people. The very nice chaps at the record company are letting people listen to KID A before it is released…..in fact on the 4th or 7th of sept, depending on where you live.
here’s how.
You will need to go to your local indie record shop (see list below) to queue for your
ticket early on 2 September (probably earlier than opening time, yikes!!) – there
should be posters up instore about the playbacks.
– Tickets will be handed out on a first come, first served basis – strictly
1 ticket per person.
– The playbacks on either 4th or 7th September (depending on city) will
start at 7pm and finishing around 9pm at each venue.
MANCHESTER
Record shops to get ticket from: Picadilly, Vibes (in Bury), X Records (in
Bolton)
Playback date: Monday 4 September
Venue: The Roadhouse, 8 Newton St, Piccadilly, Manchester
GLASGOW
Record shops to get ticket from: Fopp, Avalanche, Record Factory (in
Paisley)
Playback date: Monday 4 September
Venue: King Tuts, 272A St Vincents Street, Glasgow.
NEWCASTLE
Record shops to get ticket from: Windows, RPM, Spin
Playback date: Thursday 7 September
Venue: The Cluny, Lime Street, Newcastle
OXFORD
Record shops to get ticket from: Polar Bear, Chalkys (in Banbury), Modern
Music (in Abingdon), Powerplay (in Newbury), Music Box (in Wallingford)
Playback date: Thursday 7 September
Venue: Zodiac, 190 Cowley Road, Oxford
CARDIFF
Record shops to get ticket from: Spillers, Hitman (in Newport), Diverse (in
Newport)
Playback date: Thursday September
Venue: Ifor Bach, 11 Womanby Street, City Centre, Cardiff
I think that’s about it.
Good luck people, we are relying on you.
Tinkerty Tonk
Mungo
It was also mentioned that some playbacks of Kid A will most likely happen in the United States soon!
Phil on Radio 21
Phil will be interviewed on the Belgian radio station, Radio 21, on Monday, August 28, between 2 and 3pm.
More blips to be made available
Pretty soon you’ll be able to view more official Radiohead blips promoting Kid A at www.chartattack.com. Go here to find out more!
Just when you think they’re gone
w.a.s.t.e. has graciously put up more tickets for the tent tour starting next month. Head on over here to order!
More articles
NME is running a story about Grant Gee (MPIE director) and Radiohead working on some live footage. Read that story here.
Dotmusic has a story about Radiohead’s fifth album, rumored to be out next Spring. They talked to one of Radiohead’s managers, Chris Hufford, who confirmed the release of a fifth album. Go here to read that article.
Kid A cover revealed!
It’s official now… you can now see the cover for Radiohead’s new album, Kid A, by going to http://www.radiohead.com/007.html.
We would like to congratulate Mr. Stanley Donwood on his fantastic work! He continues to amaze us…
Ed in Rolling Stone
Ed O’Brien is featured as a “Hot Guest” in the September 14th issue of Rolling Stone. Here is an excerpt:
“We’ve discovered an interesting parallel relationship: The less time you spend on the road, the more sane you are. So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We’re going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we’ve got a record out. What we’re going to do is a month here and there, rather than the huge rock & roll circus that we did for OK Computer.”
To read the full article, click here.
Another Kid A review
Go and check out Billboard’s review of Kid A here.
Godspeed to open for Radiohead?
More Blips at Capitol
That’s right. You can now see some more media blips at hollywoodandvine.com/radiohead/rh_news.shtml. There’s also some more goodies there!
Everyone has the exclusive
Here’s some of the review of Kid A from various news sources:
–NME
–Dotmusic
–Music365
–Telegraph
Radiohead’s Meeting People is Easy on the Sundance Channel
From Sundance:
While most rock documentaries simply record concerts and the daily grind of the road, in Meeting People Is Easy, filmmaker Grant Gee’s lenses focus on an important, though less-well-chronicled, aspect of the big-time music business: the PR tour. With Super 8 and hand-held video cameras Gee followed the British band Radiohead on its 1997-98 world tour for an unsettling glimpse of countless photo sessions, vapid interviews and tedious press junkets. The San Francisco Examiner praised the film as “Kubrickian in its atmospheric melancholy, foreboding disorientation and technical mischief.” (1999) TVPG (AC, AL) (1:34) Stereo Airing: Sep 6 2:35pm; 12 11:05am, 9:00pm; 18 9:00pm; 24 9:05am; 28 5:35pm, 3:00am
Radiohead in LA Times
An article appeared in today’s edition of the LA Times containing Radiohead’s attempts on preventing piracy on their upcoming album, Kid A. Below is an excerpt:
“Before Radiohead’s “OK Computer” was released in 1998, cassette copies were sent to the press, radio programmers and retailers in portable tape players that had been glued shut.
Now, advances of the same band’s “Kid A,” due for release Oct. 3, will be sent to select writers, programmers and retailers stored electronically in Sony VAIO Music Clips–pocket-size digital players that look something like fat fountain pens.
The cassette was a gimmick designed to emphasize that the album should be listened to as a whole in one session.
The new package, say representatives of the band and Capitol Records, is born of necessity–to guard against Internet pirating. The music files are encoded to prevent them from being copied or transmitted via the Internet.
OK, it’s a gimmick too, although the devices–at a cost of more than $200 each–will only be loaned, not given, to writers working on reviews and stories. But with Radiohead, the gimmick is not the hook, given the great support the band has long had among critics.”
Click here to read the rest of the article…
[many thanks to Ed]