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Later with Jools Holland

From KCET Magazine:

Moody music, songs of despair and more await as Later…Presents Radiohead. Hailed by fans and critics alike as one of the best alternative rock acts, the Grammy-winning quintet from Oxford, England, will perform material from their latest album Amnesiac as well as songs from their other albums: Kid A, The Bends and OK Computer. Hosted by Jools Holland, this long-running music show is a BBC program that showcases top contemporary acts in music.

Later…Presents Radiohead
Premieres Saturday, December 8 at 11pm.

{thanks to Jennifer}

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I Might Be Wrong EP

Planet Telex is reporting that “the next UK single from ‘Amnesiac’ will be ‘I Might Be Wrong’. It will be an 8-track EP with a mixture of new studio tracks and live tracks, which is likely to include versions of ‘Like Spinning Plates’ and ‘True Love Waits’.”

Additionally, the UK music industry magazine, Music Week, is saying that the single will be released in the UK on October 15. {thanks to Graham}

A video for “I Might Be Wrong” will also be released.

XFM Top 104 List
Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ has crashed into the top spot in this year’s X-List. Coming in at No. 25 last year, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ knocked last year’s winners, Radiohead , off the top spot. They do manage to cling on at at Number 2 although not with the X-List 2000 winner, ‘Just’ but with ‘Creep’, up 34 places from last year. Here’s how Radiohead did:

#2. Radiohead – ‘Creep’ (last year: 36)
#9. Radiohead – ‘Just’ (1)
#16. Radiohead – ‘Paranoid Android’ (New)
#37. Radiohead – ‘Fake Plastic Trees’ (16)

Read the full list… {thanks to amadeep}

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Strung Out On OK Computer

There is a tribute to OK Computer that is being released by Vitamin Records titled “Strung Out On OK Computer: The String Quartet Tribute to Radiohead” on October 23. For more information, read the press release.
Thom and Ed on KROQ
KROQ has an excerpt of their interview with Thom and Ed Online.
Knives Out video
In case you haven’t seen the full “Knives Out” video yet, HMV has it for your Online viewing pleasure.
When the news slows down, this is what you get…
Third Eye Blind’s Stephen Jenkins recently mentioned Radiohead in an interview he did with MTV:

“I feel like I’ve come out of my dark period,” he said. “I feel really romantic about the life that I’m living again and everything seems fresh and exciting. I heard Thom Yorke [of Radiohead] say he wasn’t interested in rock anymore. Well I am, and I’m still moved by it. I’m interested in creating these musical emotions and conditions that are real, and that you can step into.”

Read the rest of the article… {thanks to JibsnotJobs}

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Tonight

Tonight the band will be playing the Gorge in George, WA.

A concert set for Aug. 1 in Grant Park by the white-hot rock group Radiohead will mark an unprecedented experiment in outdoor admission-only concerts on Chicago’s “front lawn.” Producers will construct a temporary fenced venue for the show, which could attract fans who were unable to get a ticket.

The concert by the British quintet sold 16,000 tickets in four minutes last Saturday (as fast as the system can sell tickets), evidence of a great demand among fans to see the group, whose computer-heavy art rock sound is credited with transforming contemporary music. Whether the show will mark a successful new way of producing such events?raditionally held in amphitheaters or sports stadiums?s open to question, depending on how traffic, security and crowd control outside the concert is handled. Read more… {thanks to Emil}

MTV 2 (USA) will be airing a Radiohead special on July 4. During this special will be an “amazing” interview that all five members of the band did with Gideon Yago while at the Red Rocks concert. There will also be some live footage as well. {thanks to Ultragrrrl, Diskeater, & Torie}

VH1 has a new Radiohead Player for you to download.

The 1998 Amnesty International Concert that Radiohead took part in will air on TNT Latin America on Thursday, June 28th at 17:45 (GMT -5), 19:45 (in Argentina). Make sure to check your local listings. {thanks to italo rossi}

According to Radio 1’s Mark and Lard, the “Knives Out” single will be released in the UK on August 6. {thanks to Joe}

Check out this Amnesiac review.

A DJ called Dave Clarke has released an album caled “World Service”. It’s a double CD with an Electro and Techno mix. Featured on the Electro set is Radiohead’s “Idioteque” in full as appeared on Kid A without any re-mixing. Apparently Dave said the track was perfect as it was and required no-remixing to suit the electro genre. {thanks to Duncan}

Check out this page! It has got some really interesting stuff about Amnesiac and “Pyramid Song”.

www.meetingpeopleiseasy.de has gotten hold of some new promo pics. Yay!

Q Magazine has got a 20-page feature on Radiohead, their history, and what it was like to record OKC, Kid A, and Amnesiac. {thanks to Dave}

Radiohead: Meeting People Finally Is Easy

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Houston

Radiohead will play tonight in Houston.

London radio station 104.9 XFM will be broadcasting the July 7 Radiohead Oxford show starting at 5pm. For those who can’t get the station you can listen to it on the Website. {thanks to Karin}

Thom is on the cover of the July issue of Rolling Stone in Australia. {thanks to Ivana}

You can hear a clip of the Luka Bloom cover of “No Surprises” here. Here are some comments made by Bloom:

“People ask me if I have heard their new CD. I heard a few pieces on the radio and I’m not really interested. I respect the decisions and choices made by every artist, and whether or not I like the result is irrelevant. I just like songs. I think Thom Yorke is a magnificent writer. He has written some brilliant songs and Radiohead is a great band. No Surprises is a very beautiful, very sad song. It was not easy to catch the power acoustically. Thom Yorke sings it in a very intense way and I felt it was a real challenge to achieve that same feeling using just the acoustic guitar. But I like such a challenge. Records these days are so full of production gadgets that you have to listen many times to hear the good songs. I wanted to see if I could turn a Radiohead song into a Luka Bloom song.”

{thanks to Gerry}

Tickets for the September 11 show in Berlin can be bought at http://www.getgo.de or http://www.shownet.de. {thanks to Bj?rn}

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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]