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News for August 20, 2000

Radiohead in LA Times

An article appeared in today’s edition of the LA Times containing Radiohead’s attempts on preventing piracy on their upcoming album, Kid A. Below is an excerpt:

“Before Radiohead’s “OK Computer” was released in 1998, cassette copies were sent to the press, radio programmers and retailers in portable tape players that had been glued shut.

Now, advances of the same band’s “Kid A,” due for release Oct. 3, will be sent to select writers, programmers and retailers stored electronically in Sony VAIO Music Clips–pocket-size digital players that look something like fat fountain pens.

The cassette was a gimmick designed to emphasize that the album should be listened to as a whole in one session.

The new package, say representatives of the band and Capitol Records, is born of necessity–to guard against Internet pirating. The music files are encoded to prevent them from being copied or transmitted via the Internet.

OK, it’s a gimmick too, although the devices–at a cost of more than $200 each–will only be loaned, not given, to writers working on reviews and stories. But with Radiohead, the gimmick is not the hook, given the great support the band has long had among critics.”

Click here to read the rest of the article…

[many thanks to Ed]

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News for August 17, 2000

NME’s review of KID A

Click here to go and see NME’s review of Kid A!

If you were at the playback today and would like to give us your review of Kid A, please send it to us!

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News for August 16, 2000

Congrats to the lucky ones!

All the winners who were chosen to hear Kid A tomorrow should have been contacted by now. If you haven’t been emailed, you didn’t win. The Kid A playback will be tomorrow at a secret location in London for 100 w.a.s.t.e. members.

On Friday, press and other media outlets will get a chance to hear the album in another playback.

NME hears Kid A

Go and read the latest from the NME.

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News for August 15, 2000

Official Media Clips

Two short Quicktime movies are available to download. They both feature studio versions of “Optimistic” and “Everything In Its Right Place.” Click here and here. (If you can’t hear any sound, you will need the latest version of Quicktime).

[many thanks to jon]

Bjork on working with Thom

Bjork was recently interview by Time Out and said the following about working with Thom on “I’ve Seen It All”:

“It was my idea to work with Thom. We spent four days in Spain just singing as and when we felt like it. He doesn’t do things lightly.”

The latest from the NME

RADIOHEAD’s long-awaited new album ‘KID A’ will be unveiled on Friday morning (August 18) – and nme.com will be among the first people in the world to hear it.

Our reporter will be on hand to bring a track-by-track report as soon as the playback has taken place, at 10am in a secret location in north London.

In other Radiohead news, mystery surrounds a press release, supposedly from the US, which has been “leaked.” It claims that the release of ‘Kid A’ will be accompanied by, amongst other things, a direct link to ‘Lost Children’ – a hidden website containing constantly changing Radiohead rarities, a “four-hour webcast at the end of August from the band’s studio in Oxford” and a live performance at the Air studios in London on September 4-5 for 200-300 invited guests.

A UK spokesperson for the band has been unable to confirm or deny the authenticity of the “press release”.

She told nme.com that some of the information on the release was “definitely true”, such as the band producing a series of animated “video blips” which will be used for Internet and regional promotion, but questioned the other, more ambitious claims on the release.

There is currently no confirmation on the official Radiohead website, www.radiohead.com, and the more credible unofficial band sites, such aswww.followmearound.com have dismissed the release as a hoax.

-from the NME

 

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News for August 11, 2000

Call in sick. Kid A is playing.

The following message was posted on the official RH message board:

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Okay stand by your beds polish your medals and listen in.

I would be grateful if you could let anybody you have on your mailing list find out about the following. ”

CALL IN SICK. KID A IS PLAYING

KID A playback session

If you can be in London on the Thursday 17th August and would like to be one of the first to hear the new album please read on.

At a secret venue in somewhere in London 100 w.a.s.t.e.r.s will get the opportunity to listen to KID A.

here’s how it will work…………..

If you can be in London on the 17th August send one (and only one) e-mail with your name as the subject to correspondence@waste.uk.com

the first fifty w.a.s.t.e.r.s chosen at random will be notified (on tuesday 15th by return e-mail) of the details of the playback sessions . You will be allowed 2 places (so you can bring a friend) for one of the sessions that will take place during the day of the 17th. As yet we cannot confirm the timings so please make sure you can be free all day. You may have to call in sick!!

If you haven’t heard anything by the end of play on tuesday 15th, assume that you haven’t been chosen.

Unfortunately, I haven’t the time to enter into any correspondence about the playback sessions, so please don’t expect me to answer your questions.

Good luck everybody.

Tinkerty Tonk
Mungo

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If you aren’t a member of w.a.s.t.e., you better join now! It’s free! Go towww.waste.uk.com for more info.

Preorder Kid A!

You can now preorder Kid A at amazon.com!

 

 

 

 

 

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News for August 10, 2000

Kid A – Song by Song

Can we say jealous? The fine folks over at the French fan site ne pas a.v.a.l.e.r. got to listen to the new Kid A album and has written a nice recap featuring descriptions of each song! They also confirm our report of the cover, which features a mountain with a black sky and red clouds. It is also mentioned that the cover inside the jewell case is sixteen pages and will fold out into one line.

Click here to read it in French or click here for the English version.

Shynola

It looks as if the people behind Shynola will be taking on the illustrious task of making a video for Radiohead. It was revealed on “Mirrorball”, a show airing on the UK Channel Four, that the group, who has previously done work for such acts as UNKLE and Grooverider, will be taking on the video project or projects for Radiohead. Shynola is known for their computer animated videos, including the amazing “Guns Blazing” video for UNKLE. You can view that video in Quicktimehere.

The members of Shynola (Gideon Baws, Jason Groves, Chris Harding and Richard Kenworthy) told “Mirrorball” that working with Radiohead was a “dream project”.

[thanks to Matt]