Author: Jonathan

New York, NY

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News for May 2, 2000

Meeting People is Easy on Sundance Channel

The Sundance Channel will be showing the critically acclaimed Radiohead tour documentary/film 9 times this month. If you haven’t seen it, definitely check it out! The times are:

Friday, May 5: 8:00 AM & 5:30 PM
Thursday, May 11: 10:30 AM & 7:25 PM
Monday May 15: 9:00 AM & 4:00 PM
Saturday, May 20: 11:00 AM
Tuesday, May 30: 2:00 PM & 4:30 AM.

All times above are in Eastern time. If you don’t have the Sundance Channel, call your local cable or satellite company.

Radiohead #2!

Radiohead’s OK Computer was listed as #2 in a recent poll of the “100 Greatest British Albums Ever” by music writers for Q, a British music magazine. They were beat only by the Beatles. Here’s the top ten:

1. Revolver – The Beatles
2. OK Computer – Radiohead
3. Exile on Main Street – Rolling Stones
4. London Calling – The Clash
5. A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles
6. Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
7. The Beatles (the White Album) – The Beatles
8. (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? – Oasis
9. Blue Lines – Massive Attack
10. Never Mind The Bollocks – Sex Pistols

Congrats goes to Radiohead!
You can see the rest of the poll in the newest issue of Q magazine.

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News for April 27, 2000

It looks as if a few Radiohead fans are starting up a movement to have the video made for “Lucky” appear on MTV’s Total Request Live on May 2, 2000. What can you do? Simple. On May 2 go to MTV.com and click on the “TRL” section of the site. From there, go to the “Play My Song” bit. At the bottom of the page, you’ll see a place to enter in a video not listed.

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News for April 26, 2000

Rankin Exhibition

From Garbage.com:

World renowned photographer, Rankin, will be staging his Celebration Exhibition — an alternative collection of his portraits which show celebrities relaxing instead of posing in front of the camera. This exhibit will take place at The Proud Galleries (UK) during the month of April and will include a photo taken of Shirley Manson. Other artists that Rankin will include in the exhibit — and a subsequent book — include Mel C, Thom Yorke, Tricky, REM, Daniem Hirst and Beck.

(thanks to Phoebe)

Drawing For Meltdown Tickets

Today w.a.s.t.e. drew 500 names of members who entered the contest to win a chance to purchase tickets to Radiohead’s performance at the Meltdown Festival this July. Winners were notified by email and phone today. Congratulations to the lucky ones!

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News for April 25, 2000

Bjork and Yorke Duet Update

Bjork’s official website, Websense, has this to say about the rumor of Thom Yorke and Bjork recording a duet together for Bjork’s upcoming film, Dancer in the Dark:

“Some confusion has risen once again around the collaboration between Bjork and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. The most interesting and speculative was similar to: ‘OhMYGawd! it is not happening!’ Why this was proclaimed Meester Fly and his team of web insects never understood. When the only thing they heard on the grapewire was that it was still on, but not yet happened. Things don’t happen until they happen, pretty obvious isn’t ?! So what can Meester Fly say today! Well, it has happened, (and if it has not happened he will retract this statement), but the act happened in a foreign country, at least foreign to England and Iceland.”

Everything has to be complicated, doesn’t it? 🙂

By the way, Meester Fly is the Websense reporter of news.

The newest issue of Rollingstone magazine has a blurb about the duet too… Check it out at your local book store or news agent! (thanks to Kevin B)

For more information about Bjork’s new movie, check out the official Dancer in the Dark website.

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News for April 24, 2000

Radioheadless Chicken

From Planet Telex:
Exeter-based label Hometown Atrocities have uncovered an early pre-Radiohead recording featuring Thom Yorke. Thom played guitar in the band Headless Chickens during the late 80’s while at Exeter University. Their song “I Don’t Want To Go To Woodstock” appears on the compilation CD “Year Zero / The Exeter Punk Scene 1977 – 2000”, available by mail order directly from Hometown Atrocities for 10 uk pounds or from Opal Music.

Greece Tickets
As mentioned last week, the dates in Greece are on sale now. For those who live outside of Greece but are wanting tickets, hop on over to http://www.didimusic.gr/index2.htm and click on the “news” section for info on how to get tickets.

For those living in Greece, head on over to Ticket House. There are two locations:
Thessaloniki: Patsis Record Shop, 39-41 Tsimiski St.
Musicland Records, 102 Mitropoleos St

Finally, the ticket’s price for all three shows is 12,000 DRS.

The doors will open at 20:00 and the start time is 22:00 (approximately).
(thanks to Nafsika)

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News for April 19, 2000

Recording is Finished!

Go to the bottom of Thom’s page on the official website and you’ll see:
“yesterday we finished recording. i am free and happy and now im going for a walk in the park goodbye.”
The album will now be mixed together and will probably still be released around September or October 2000. There is NO official release date so anything is possible.

Greece Tickets On Sale
You can apparently purchase tickets for the Greece shows now, even though no official sale date was announced by the band. The two Athens dates (June 26 and 27) went on sale yesterday. There is no way to purchase tickets on the internet so you’ll have to do it the old fashioned way: Go to the Ticket House at 42 Panepistimiou Ave in the center of Athens. Call (0030-1-)3608634 or (0030-1-)3608366 for information. There is no information about the June 25 show in Thessaloniki.
(thanks to Rania)

Here’s the press release about a new Radiohead book being released next month:
EXIT MUSIC: THE RADIOHEAD STORY
BY MAC RANDALL
Publication date: May 11th 2000
Price: ÂŁ10.95
from the introduction:

ìIn my capacity as senior editor at Musician magazine, I did what I could to gain the band more recognition, interviewing various members in late ’95 and early ’96. And I was privileged to be one of two American journalists attending the festivities that accompanied the European release of their 1997 album OK Computer in Barcelona, Spain…Finally, in June 1999, I traveled to Oxford to see for myself where the band had got its start…Ă®
Mac Randall has interviewed all the members of Radiohead. Although one of the worldĂ­s most famous bands, they are notoriously private and very few journalists have got as close to them as Randall has over the years.
Exit Music: The Radiohead Story is an attempt to explore the band and their unique musical expression, and Randall charts this progress from Pablo Honey and their alienation from the British music media as they made it huge on campus circuits across the USA following the overseas success of Creep, through to their current position as media darlings reappropriated by their native culture.

Mac Randall is the East Coast editor of LAUNCH.