Author: Jonathan

New York, NY

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Radiohead tour

News for March 8, 2000

Ticket Information for Meltdown 2000

For those of you looking to see Radiohead’s gig at Scott Walker’s Meltdown in London this summer, tickets will go on sale at www.meltdown.co.uk. on March 13, 2000. The tickets are £20. Radiohead will be performing on July 1, 2000, at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The box office will be also selling tickets by phone. Their number is 0207 960 4242.

As mentioned earlier, W.A.S.T.E. will be selling 500 tickets to W.A.S.T.E. members. Keep your eye on the bulletin page at www.radiohead.com for further details.

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News for March 7, 2000

Gather Around Now…

We finally have a confirmed tour date for this year! In a announcement made on their official website yesterday, Radiohead stated that they will take part in this year’s Meltdown Festival, presented by Scott Walker. The band will perform on July 1, 2000, at the Royal Festival Hall in London. There will be more shows around this time in Europe that will be announced in the near future.

Tickets go on sale on March 13, 2000. W.A.S.T.E. will be offering 500 tickets for purchase to W.A.S.T.E. members. More on this later.

You can read the announcement at the official Radiohead site.
(thanks to Xavier)

In Other Exciting News…

It seems that the band have given themselves a deadline to finish the new album. They plan to cease work by the end of March, meaning that there is a possibility of a September release. Of course, this is subject to change.

From the 30 songs that they have been working on, the band has shortlisted the tracklisting to 16, and will most likely cut it down to 12 or 13. The songs that are reported to have made

the cut are:
Cuttooth
Egyptian Song
Dollars and Cents
Everyone (The National Anthem)
Follow Me Around
How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
I Will
Keep the Wolf From the Door
Kinetic
Knives Out
Lost At Sea (In Limbo)
Morning Bell
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Optimistic
You and Whose Army
True Love Waits
(thanks to Planet Telex)

*blushes*
Many thanks to Rosemary and the fine folks at the Ultimate Bulletin Board who named Green Plastic as “Site of the Week”.

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News for February 21, 2000

Everything Back In It’s Right Place

The band return to work today after having last week off. Ed updated his diary recently with some promising news:

“…who knows maybe in the next few weeks we may even finish off the recording of the songs we’ve been working on?”

Boy, wouldn’t that be great!
You can read the rest of his diary at www.radiohead.com/us.html.

Those Aussies Love Their Radiohead
The Australian music magazine, Massive, recently had their “Hottest 100 Albums of All Time”, voted by the lovely people of Australia. Radiohead scored twice in the top ten:
1. OK Computer – Radiohead
2. Nevermind – Nirvana
3. Grace – Jeff Buckley
4. The Beatles – The Beatles
5. Stone Roses – Stone Roses
6. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
7. The Joshua Tree – U2
8. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – Midnight Oil
9. Houses of the Holy – Led Zeppelin
10. The Bends – Radiohead
(thanks to Stanard)

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News for February 18, 2000

Nothing Here

Not much has been going in the Radiohead camp as of late. The band will return next week from their week off to settle back in to getting us a record to listen to!

Webcast Leftovers

The playlist for the February 10 webcast has been posted up by the wonderful Mel. Here’s what Colin, Phil, and Ed spun:

Marlene Shaw- California Soul
Stetsosonic – All that jazz
Captain Beefheart – Sun Zoom Spark
Five Ounces of Soul – Love Got a Piece of Your Mind
Commodores – Machine Gun
PJ Harvey – O Stella
PIL – Flowers of Romance
John Barry – The Danny Scipio Theme
The Beat – Save It For Later
Lou Reed – Vicious
Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock
Charles Wright – I’m Aware
The Movie Album – Goin’ Hollywood
Charles Sherell – Yes It’s You
Schooly D – Do it Do it
South Bronx – Hip Hop Till You Drop
Charles Sullivan – Genesis
Betty Davis – f.u.n.k
Ray Charles – Night and Day
Hall and Oates – Had I Known You Better Then
Kraftwerk – Tour de France
? – Felicidade
With These Themes 3 – Avro Car
Neu! – Fur Immer
Bob Marley – Single Dub
Linda Lyndelt – What A Man
The Specials – Ghost Town
Sergio Mendes – After Sunrise
Velvet Underground – Who Loves The Sun
Virna Lindt – Attention Stockholm
Barrett Strong – Money
Tom Waits – Such A Scream
Marvyn Gaye – ?
Gerry Mulligan – Morning Of The Carnival
Joe Quarterman and Free Soul – Live Now Brothers
(thanks to Xavier)

And Now For Your Radiohead Feel-Good Story of the Month:

“There is a radio station in little Spokane, Washington, that never plays Radiohead (other than Creep and High and Dry)……but yesterday something amazing happened. The Peak (105.7, Spokane, WA) interviewed a band called BoxCar Children on their Local Band night where a band is interviewed and played on the radio. Well the Peak had to go out and buy a copy of OK Computer in order to play Karma Police which was requested to be played by BoxCar Children (or else there would be no show). Almost brought me to tears………Radiohead being on the radio and all, it is good to see that someone out there is showing us the true way of the Radiohead.”
(thanks to Tony for that one)

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News for February 11, 2000

What a night! The band put on their second webcast last night and left us all wanting more! At around 6pm Eastern time, Radiohead set up their turntables and video cameras and partied for almost 4 hours!

The evening was full of excitement. Ed, Phil, and Colin took turns playing DJ, while the others danced around (Go Mel!) and sat by the fire outside. The highlight of the evening was definitely the introduction of three new songs. Thom, Jonny, and Phil had a little jam session which was incredible, called “There there”, by Thom. That was followed later by Jonny and his electronic toys.

The band got together at the end and played another new song with Ed on vocals, even though he wasn’t really singing. “Ed was pulling wurds out of the magic top hat which i use,” said Thom.

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News for February 9, 2000

Ed’s online diary has been updated again with all the latest on the recording process. Here’s an excerpt:

“what an amazing day. fantastic string arrangements by jonny and what players. many many thanks are due to john lubbock(who conducted and organised) and the string players from the orchestra of st. john’s, smith square. the whole session was the complete antithesis to the ok computer experience; firstly rather than de-camping to some london studio we used an old abbey near us with the most fantastic acoustics to record in. i think nigel was totally blown away by the whole sound of it. but most importantly john and the players were so enthusiastic about it all…..jonny has certain things that he wants/wanted to try out that aren’t your usual string arrangements. and rather than dismiss his ideas ( which is what happened on the ok computer session) they were open-minded enough to try them.”

Ed also mentions that the master tape of “Innocents Civilian” has come up missing. Nigel had this to say on the official message board:

“Personally I think we have a bit of a tape labelling/catalogueing user interface error, but certain others are somewhat freaking about it. I’m sure it’ll turn up.”

OK, go and read the rest of the diary.
Copyright

Another new and unreleased song has been found copyrighted. The song “I Will” joins “Follow Me Around”, “Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any), and “Living in a Glass House” as possible finished songs that are copyrighted with Warner/Chappell.

Also, two unknown songs were found copyrighted by Jonny Greenwood: “Jet” and “Tinitus”. (click on each song to view the description from Warner/Chappell)
Again, this is no indication on what songs will be on the new album.
(thanks to Xavier)