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News for June 12, 2000

Jonny made an appearance at the official Radiohead message board yesterday and was asked about how big the tent would be that they will be bringing on tour with them this Fall. “We can get 10000 in, apparently,” Jonny said,”but it feels tiny. The reading festival tent in about 8000, if you know it, so it’s not much bigger.”

[thanks to Middi]

VH-1 wants you!
Here is a press release for a new show on VH-1:

A new television series called SOUND AFFECTS, which will begin airing on July 21st, is looking for inspirational stories about how a particular song or artist/band has affected your life.

We want to hear specific stories on how Radiohead’s music has inspired you, motivated you, helped you get through a rough situation, or served as a “soundtrack” through a profound or difficult time in your life. Are you where you are today because of a Radiohead song? We want to know how. The more detailed the story, the better the chance of getting contacted for an on-camera interview. Interviews will be held in Chicago June 24/25, Detroit June 27/28, Cleveland June 30, Austin July 2/3, Waco July 6, Dallas July 8, New York July 29/30, Los Angeles TBD. Please e-mail your stories, name, contact number, age, occupation, and city and state where you live to: SoundAffects@vh1.com . Check out http://www.vh1.com/soundaffects for info. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thom in R.E.M. documentary
The Independent Film Channel is showing the R.E.M. documentary in which Thom makes an appearance. The documentary is called “This Way Up” and follows the band around during the making of their album Up and the Tibetan Freedom Concert in Washington DC in 1998. Thom is shown rehearsing with R.E.M., singing their song “Be Mine.”

Showtimes are:
Monday June 19, 2:30/1:30pm central
Friday June 23, 11/10am central
Saturday June 24, 4/3am central
Sunday June 25, 7/6pm central
Monday june 26, 5/4am central
[thanks to mARSHALL]

MPIE on Musique Plus
Canadian TV channel Musique Plus will be airing Meeting People is Easy on Wednesday June 14th, at 10:30 PM.
[thanks to Paul-Emile]

Thom’s site updated
Check out Thom’s page on the official Radiohead site. He’s updated it with some new pictures!

PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke
As we reported last month, it is rumored that PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke will be singing together on a track from Harvey’s new album, scheduled to be released later this year. NME is reporting that more credibility has been given to the rumor, and quotes a PJ Harvey site by saying that “there may just be some truth” to the rumor.

Stay tuned, as always, for more on this topic!

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News for June 9, 2000

Tour dates for the UK were announced today. Here they are:

Sep 1, 2: Newport, South Wales
Sep 23, 24, 25: Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets, London
Sep 28, 29: Glasgow Green, Glasgow
Oct 1, 2, 3: Victoria Park, Warrington, Cheshire

Tickets will go on sale Saturday, June 17 at 9 am. The credit card hotline is 0870 122 0011. The maximum purchase per person is 4.

Ed: “I fucking love this record now”
After almost two month of no entries, Ed has finally updated his diary at the official Radiohead site. From the sound of it, I think we can all expect an amazing forth album.

Go and read Ed’s diary.

Colin confirms tracks for new album
From At Ease:
Colin Greenwood was interviewed by Dutch music magazine ‘OOR’. Here are some quotes concerning the new album. “…But I think I’m pleased with the new album. “If you like songs like Exit Music and Airbag, but don’t like Electioneering, you will probably like the new album. I thought that Electioneering was the weakest track of OK Computer.

Colin confirmed that the following songs will make it to the album, which won’t be longer than 45 minutes, as the band want to release their other material soon after the release of album #4: (keep in mind, this is not the tracklist!)

How to Disappear
Kid A
Everything in it’s Right Place
Everyone (The National Anthem)
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Idioteque
Morning Bell
Egyptian Song

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News for June 8, 2000

The Radiohead announcement, which we believe is the announcement of UK tour dates, will air tomorrow on BBC Radio 1 during Jo Whiley’s slot instead of Monday as earlier reported. The show begins at 12 pm and you will be able to hear it on the internet by going to the Radio 1 webpage and clicking the “listen” link.

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News for June 7, 2000

Here’s some more info about yesterday’s interview with Jonny and Colin at German radio station Einslive:

Jonny and Colin were asked if the new album will sound like OK Computer and they replied that it would, but is much “shorter” and that OKC was a “typical nineties album.” The album is completely finished except for the title, and that should be decided this week because the album is going to the label next week.
The guy who interviewed them said Ed visited Einslive 3 years ago and said something like every album was a snapshot of the band. Jonny said at the moment the “snapshot” was underexposed.

[many thanks to Luisa and Kersten]

Tour dates in Denmark
The dates that the Ekstra Bladet, a Danish newspaper, wrote last week are wrong. Two shows will be happening in Copenhagen on September 7th and 8th, according to another Danish newspaper, Berlingske Tidende.

The band will be setting their tent up on a football field beside Valby-Hallen. According to the newspaper, these will be the only dates in Scandinavia, so hurry up and get your tickets cause they’re on sale now at www.billetnet.dk,by phone at 70 15 65 65, or at Danish post offices. The tickets cost 300 DKK.
[thanks to Tom and Martin]
Announcement on Monday
The NME are saying that the UK dates this Fall will be announced this Monday, June 12, on Jo Whiley’s Radio 1 show.
[thanks to Xavier]
Humo interview
Jonny And Colin were also interviewed by a Belgian magazine called Humo in which Jonny said that they are going to tour before the release of the album because they want to escape from the whole record-single-album-tour life which they have been doing for the last 3 albums. He also said that they will probably not release a single before the album hits the shelves this Fall. Colin also mentioned that they are not going to tour for very long because they want to have another album released by September 2001.

According to Jonny, the 2 songs they did along with other musicians, the one with the jazz band and the one with the small orchestra, will definitely be on the album but that they haven’t got any idea yet on how to do them live.

When asked about bands that sound like Radiohead, Colin replied, “Muse, Travis, … I don’t really know them, but I’ve heard of them. I think it’s very weird. We have never ever tried to create our own sound, we’ve always just played.

Those bands know how you can make music that sounds like Radiohead, so apparently they play better than we do, but is that what it’s about? I don’t think so. A couple of days ago I saw Muse on MTV, and I really got scared. They really try to look like us, but they didn’t seem to enjoy it very much. Those guys really need to cheer up, and quick. Apparently they’ve seen ‘Meeting People Is Easy’ one time too much (laughs).”

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News for June 6, 2000

Lot’s of things going on with Radiohead… The band has been doing interviews and press conferences for the last week and today Jonny and Colin appeared on the German radio station Einslive. They talked about Muse, claiming that they had never heard their music, which is surprising because Muse is often compared to Radiohead.

Jonny and Colin also talked about the upcoming “tent tour” and mentioned that the album was finished and will be released in October. If anyone has anymore info about the interview, give me an email.

Meanwhile, tomorrow an interview with Colin will be aired on Radio21, a Belgian radio station. Colin originally gave the interview on May 29, 2000. The interview will air at 6 pm (GMT +1) on the show “5 Heures”. [from followmearound.com]

Another interview featuring Colin and Jonny appears in the newest issue of Humo, a Belgian magazine. The two talk about tour plans and some of the strange methods of which they used to record the new album. If anyone has this issue and is willing to translate the article, email me.

Thom is interviewed by The Frame. Go and read it at www.theframe.fsbusiness.co.uk/radiohead.html.
MPIE re-released on DVD

Grant Gee’s documentary that follows the band on their OK Computer tour of 1997 and 1998 will be re-released on DVD throughout Europe on Monday.

Glastonbury Man
BBC2 will be airing a documentary about Glastonbury organizer Michael Eavis. The show will broadcast at 7:50 pm on June 24, and will contain an interview with Thom Yorke, along with other artists.

You can read the full NME article by going to www.nme.com/newsdesk/20000605172720.html
[thanks to Neil]

Artwork for new album done
Stanley Donwood made an appearance on the official message board today and said that the artwork was finished:
“so we finished the artwork
and i feel very strange
:
[what happened to the last couple of years]
kind of pleased
kind of sad
overall though
its been a pleaure
i hope weve been fun
goodbye”

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News for June 5, 2000

Ed and Phil were guests on Canal+’s “Nulle Part Ailleurs”, a French TV show, today. Their appearance was short and nothing new was announced. Phil mentioned that they had 13 new songs that they would begin to play on the summer tour.

(thanks to Aurelien)

Paris Metro Posters
The first concert posters have been put in some stations of Paris’ metro/underground/tube. They advertise the September bigtop concerts in paris and contain images from www.radiohead.com, along with two scary drawings (flying testbears over the city and scared citizens, and a giant man starbing) and other small text and phone lines for the FNAC and radiohead.com. It’s made of two similar parts, the only difference between the two being the drawings and the copyright: one is “poster by Stanley and Tchock”, the other by “Tchock and Stanley”. (thanks to Xavier and nodata.ctw.cc)

Concerts in Denmark
In the June 4 issue, the Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, wrote that Radiohead will be playing two shows in Denmark on September 8th and 9th, 2000. As with the other concerts planned for this time, Radiohead will be bringing their own venue… in the form of a giant circus-type tent. (See May 26 news)
They also stated that the band would be making an appearance in Denmark tomorrow, June 6, 2000. Stay tuned….
(thanks to Martin)

Radiohead on RadioMafia
A Finnish radio station RadioMafia, did their “100 Best Songs Of The ’90’s” poll for their 10th birthday last Thursday. Radiohead scored four songs: “Street Spirit” (#78), “Karma Police” (#46), “Paranoid Android” (#29) and “Creep” (#18). Go to www.yle.fi/radiomafia/tapahtumat/alasivu.6.shtml for the whole list.
(thanks to Fridgebuzz)

Thom’s page updated
Why don’t you take a gander at Thom’s page at www.radiohead.com. It’s been updated.