It’s been forever since I last updated, so let me attempt to catch up…
As many of you know, Radiohead has pretty much ended their campaign for OK COMPUTER. No more singles, no more videos. The only scheduled appearance they have is the Tibetan Freedom Concert this weekend (June 13 & 14) in Washington DC. The show is sold out, but there will be a live webcast. For more info on that, check out www.tibet98.com.
the line-up for the show is listed below:
Saturday, June 13, 1998
Opening: Monks & Nuns
Money Mark
Mutabaruka
Wei Jingsheng (speaker)
Live
Chaksam-Pa
Patti Smith
KRS-One
Palden Gyatso (speaker)
Dave Matthews
Herbie Hancock and Guru
with the Headhunters
Tracy Chapman
Sonic Youth
Drepung Loseling Monks
R.E.M.
Beck
Radiohead
Closing: Monks & Nuns
Sunday, June 14, 1998
Opening: Monks & Nuns
Buffalo Daughter
Sean Lennon
Xiao Qiang (speaker)
Pulp
Luscious Jackson
Nawang Khechog
Blues Traveler
Palden Gyatso (speaker)
Wyclef Jean
Kraftwerk
The Wallflowers
A Tribe Called Quest
Drepung Loseling Monks
The Verve
Beastie Boys
Pearl Jam
Closing: Monks & Nuns
from NME.com:
As previously reported on NME.com, the documentary was filmed over the past year, with ‘No Surprises’ video director Grant Gee tracking Radiohead as they toured the world in support of ‘OK Computer’. No release date for the movie has been set yet.
Speaking to NME last week, Ed O’Brien said the film was now being edited and that a “low-key” premiere was being planned. He said: “It’s coming on really well. We went down last week and saw some of the rushes. Grant’s got about eight hours’ worth of stuff and it’s got to be condensed, obviously. It’s very honest, but it’s not a rockumentary, that’s the last thing we wanted it to be because that would be so Spinal Tap.”
Ed said the main thrust of the film was to convey the strange life of a rock group on the road, so they gave the director free rein. “I mean, you make a record within the confines of the five of you, and whoever else, then after that, you go out and tour this record and that’s when it gets bizarre, then it’s the rock’n’roll circus thing. It’s not normality and it’s not real. It’s his slant on that and I think it’s going to be quite interesting.”
Ed scotched widespread stories there would be a new Radiohead album before the end of this year, although he admitted that they have been recording in the back of the tourbus while they toured the last album.
He said: “We demoed stuff and things like that. But basically, I think an album has to be recorded over a certain period of time. So we’ll start work on it properly in November.” OK COMPUTER has gone platinum in the US.
The 7 Television Commercials will be released the United States on June 30.
Radiohead picked up two awards at the Ivor Novello Awards last month:
BEST CONTEMPORARY SONG – Karma Police
BEST SONG MUSICALLY AND LYRICALLY – Paranoid Android