There is a really good interview (and some pictures!) with Colin at Culture Lab. He discusses everything from Alice Coltrane to Apple Powerbooks to Jonny’s new pet, a dog named Brixton Bruxelles. Go forth and enjoy… {thanks to Liz & Chuque}
“We’re complete girls.”
107.7 The End has an interview with Thom from right after the Gorge show the other night. You can listen to the interview in Real Audio here. {thanks to Chris}
We almost forgot to wish Mr. Colin Greenwood a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Coz turns 32 today!
Amnesiac will be released today in the United States and Canada. Go forth and buy!
Radioheadpreorder.com has some pictures up from the three recent Amnesiac listening parties in Chicago.
You can listen to an interview with Colin from yesterday’s Pinkpop Festival. The interview runs for about 7:46 minutes in RealAudio. {thanks to Rik}
You can see the setlist for last night’s show here.
From Launch: U2’s “Bad,” Radiohead’s “No Surprises,” and the Cure’s “In Between Days” are among the tracks featured on Keeper Of The Flame, a new album of covers by Irish contemporary folk veteran Luka Bloom, due June 26 from Bar None Records.
Win Radiohead ‘…Later’ tickets and loads of goodies at NME.com! {thanks to Steve and Aurora}
There is an effort forming to get Radiohead to play “Nude” (aka “Big Ideas”) at the June 30th Santa Barbara show in California. Spread the word!
MTV.co.uk is currently running a contest in which a selected winner will win an all expenses paid trip to Seattle to see Radiohead! For more details, click here.
PRESS:
– Article about Radiohead in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. {thanks to Dave}
– W Magazine has a small article about Radiohead in their current issue. It can be found on page 92. {thanks to Carol}
Vote Killerbear? If you visit the city of Nottingham (UK) you may see little posters of the Radiohead bear with the words “Vote Killerbear”. They are apparently in a lot of locations as documented here. What are they for? Who put them up? Did the band have something to do with it? These are questions that we can’t answer. Maybe it has something to do with the upcoming elections on June 7.
The NME has given Amnesiac an 8 of 10 rating. {thanks to Chris}
The setlist and review for last night’s show in Verona, Italy is here.
Thom, Colin, and Jonny appeared on Mark and Lard yesterday live from Verona. Thom and Colin played Wheel of Misfortune in which Thom confessed that they had picked “The Tourist” for the encore in France only to discover that they couldn’t remember (talk about Amnesia!) the last chord to the the song! They discovered this about 2 minutes before they went on stage and couldn’t locate a copy of OK Computer so the song was ditched. You can listen to the Thom and Colin’s Wheel of Misfortune and the Yes No Game with Thom at the Mark and Lard Site. The full interview should be available Online soon. {thanks to Paul}
To hear Thom’s solo version of “Pyramid Song” from the same show, check out http://www.kornmuse.fr.st. Apparently Jonng was itching to play drums with a Yamaha Beatbox or something… 🙂 {thanks to Titof}
According to Pitchforkmedia, a “Knives Out” EP will be released in the UK on July 24. {thanks to Keegan}
Two local bands, The Rock Of Travolta and Hester Thrale have been added to the support list at the July 7 Radiohead “hometown” show in Oxford. {thanks to Alex and Andrew}
Thom is interviewed in the latest edition of the Dutch magazine OOR.
The PinkPop festival, in which Radiohead is taking part of, will be available to watch and listen to Online at this Site on Monday, June 4. {thanks to Willem}
The concert that Radiohead played for Canal+ on April 28 will be aired on the following channels on June 5:
– Canal+ Spain @ 23:45
– Canal+ Sweden @ 21:35
– TELE PIU’ BIANCO (Italian satellite network) @ 6:05pm
A “Making of…” special will also be shown. {thanks to Linda}
There is supposedly going to be an Amnesiac listenening party on June 3rd at 8:00 PM at the Zia Records on University & Mill Ave. in Tempe, Arizona.
More Zia Records info: 105 W. University, Tempe, AZ (480) 829-1967. {thanks to Meggie}
Amnesiac will be released tomorrow in Ireland! {thanks to John}
Boris Becker is Thom Yorke? We didn’t even know you liked tennis Thom! {thanks to Nicolas}
Nude as the News has launched three new articles on Radiohead, including a review of the new album, a band profile and an odd piece of humor, called Trivee. ‘Head on over and check it out!
There is an article (in Portuguese) about Radiohead and their show recently in Bilbao, Spain at www.blitz.pt. {thanks to bey}
Mexican radio station Radioactivo is celebrating it’s 9th anniversary with many specials and contests, and they sure won’t leave Radiohead out of it. Here’s a list of Radiohead events in Radioactivo:
– June 4th: Amnesiac will go on sale, and radioactivo will be at Mixup G?nova (a record store in Mexico City)at 6:30 local time giving away special radiohead gifts to people who buy the cd.
– June 5th: Radioactivo will be airing one of Radiohead concerts in Dublin.
– During that week radioactivo will be giving away a trip to the U.S. to watch one the Radiohead concerts, so stay tuned and be ready to do whatever it takes to win that trip!.
oh, and there«s a poll at www.radioactivo.com.mx/98.5 about which is the most awaited cd. So far Amnesiac is in the lead.
{thanks to Nicolas}
Thom, Ed, and Colin joined three Radiohead fans on Steve Lamacq’s Evening Session on Radio 1 last night. One of the highlights of this interview was the talk of the legend that is “True Love Waits”, the song everyone loves but hasn’t been released yet making the title very appropriate. Thom gave us a simmer of sunshine when he talked about the recording of “True Love Waits”:
“We’d love to record that. We’d love to find a way to do it, other than on an acoustic guitar. We have an entire section in our tape store just for ‘True Love Waits’ versions. Every time we start a version of it we get a different song. For ‘OK Computer’ we got ‘Push Pull’ out of it.”
To listen to this wonderful interview, check out the Radio 1 site.
The concert that Radiohead played for Canal+ on April 28 will be aired on Spain’s Canal+ on June 5 at 23:45. It will also air the same night on TELE PIU’ BIANCO (an Italian satellite network), which will also show a “Making of…” special at 6:05pm followed by the concert at 10:45pm. {thanks to Francesca and Mar}
You can still watch last Monday’s concert in France at http://orange.lesinrocks.com/radiohead/. {thanks to Pieter and Jon Paul}
Radiohead will appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine for the first time. The mag will hit US store shelves on June 29. {thanks to David}
There is a French interview with Ed here. {thanks to Ludovic}
Colin is interviewed at Wall of Sound and is already talking about album number six:
“We’ve talked about doing a guitar album next,” Greenwood reports. “The reason we did these two records is to show that anything is possible rather than everything is expected; the last thing we wanted to do was go into the studio and make another version of OK Computer. My best guess for the next album is a combination of Amnesiac with more guitar music. But the most important thing is, it’s song-based music rather than sort of instrumental, non-lyric based music. We try not to insult or bore the intelligence of our audience, because we’re aware their tastes are moving on as well as ours with music, and it’s exciting to be part of that.”
You can read the rest of the interview here.
This following is a snippet of the new Mojo interview with Thom that our good friend Lunargirl of Ultimate Intimate (now bjork.com)sent us:
Q: The rumoured Oscar duet with Bjork: what happened?
A: I was briefly on the cards for being A-list – which was great. But only briefly. Because they messed her around quite a lot. In the end, it was probably good I didn’t go over to join her there.
Q: Was it your choice not to perform then?
A: No, it was her decision. Hopefully, we’ll do it somewhere else – like a better place. Working with her was funny, though, because I went and did that session literally the day we’d finished putting “Kid A” together so I was going ‘Yes! I’m out! I’m in someone else’s studio and it’s not my session and I’m not under any kind of pressure.’
Q: Your voices blend well together….
A: Yeah, but it took quite a while to find that blend(laughs). My whole tip at the time was ‘Well, if this is a duet, then we really need to record this together.’ And stylistically, we sing quite differently. I sing quite softly while she really belts it out. And the key was incredibly low for me. So we had to work at it but when our voices finally fitted together it was just the best. Great fun. I haven’t seen the film, though.
You can purchase Mojo at your local newstand.