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News for August 3, 2000

Explanation of this morning’s news

If you came here during the morning, you probably saw a news story about Radiohead playing a secret gig last night in Oxford. It was false. I knew it was false when I put it up.

A group of people in the Radiohead community organized an attempt to fool the NME in publishing a false story about Radiohead. If you paid attention to the NME’s “journalism” skills, you’ll notice that their news is very similar the news that many Radiohead fan sites have. The NME scours the fan sites to get news so they can sell their magazine. Beryl’s Follow Me Around site is a good example of this. This was especially highlighted when Steven Wells, a journalist for the NME, wrote a column about Radiohead and their “pretentious little pricks” of fans.

The plan was to throw up a story that was false but believable on a few Radiohead fans sites, including green plastic, hoping that someone like the NME would pick it up. It could have happened but I decided to take it down before it could spread any further.

The plan failed in that not enough consideration was given to the consequences that people close to the band, like w.a.s.t.e., would have to deal with because of our foolishness.

I hope you haven’t been too disappointed with our attempt. We didn’t want to fool the fans, just the NME. Bad idea.

-jonathan

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News for August 2, 2000

More Kid A cover rumors

According to someone who has seen the cover for Kid A, the art is composed of white mountains with sharp peaks and blue shadows. The mountains are transparent and there appears to be a city inside the base. Behind the mountains is the sky, which is black with three small red clouds.

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News for August 1, 2000

This Mess We’re In

PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey

Album information about PJ Harvey’s new release, entitled Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, were announced today. The album, Harvey’s sixth LP, will be released on October 23 and will feature Thom Yorke as a guest vocalist on a duet called “This Mess We’re In“. Harvey reportedly wrote the song with Thom in mind.

Thom will also be providing backing vocals on two other tracks from the album.

For more information about PJ Harvey and the new album, head on over to www.pjh.org.

Kid A cover rumors

Slowly the details are trickling in from the grapevine about the cover for the highly-anticipated Kid A. From what we’ve heard, the cover will be plain in a similar style as the recent tour posters. Also, “Radiohead” and “Kid A” are written at the top right. Also, the booklet will not be as thick as the one from OK Computer.

Stanley commented about the artwork yesterday saying that “it’s a nightmare for record companies.

Banging on Radiohead About…

You can now read the “delightful” column written by Steven Wells for the NME about Radiohead and their fans. Click here to read it.

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News for July 31, 2000

Album #5 Details

Radiohead are releasing a new album in March of 2001. According to a source close to the band, the album is pretty much done. According to another source close to the label, the songs that will appear on the follow up are more accessible (ie: closer to radio hits then anything appearing on “Kid A”) to fans and the public.

Again, nothing has been officially confirmed by the band. Stay tuned for more info…

The Meaning of Kid A?

Thom mentioned yesterday on the official message board that they named album #4 Kid A in dedication to the first human clone, which he suspects has already happened.

Other speculation is that the album was named after the children card game, Kid A in Alphabet Land.

[Thanks to Orion]

Radiohead included in Buy-cott

Following Colin’s vocal support on issues like Napster and like technology, Radiohead has been added to Napster’s “Buy-Cott” campaign, encouraging consumers to buy CD’s from Napster-friendly artists and bands.

You can view the list at www.napster.com/buycott.html

[thanks to Micken and Erkki]

Paul Oakenfold’s Remix of “Street Spirit”

You can listen to a mp3 of Paul Oakenfold’s live remix of “Street Spirit” by clicking this link. www.sandham.net/radiohead-vs-wonky-streetspirit.mp3 (6 Megs)

Thom’s page updated

Check out www.radiohead.com/thom.html and see Thom’s updated page. It looks like he put a picture of some fans in Berlin.

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News for July 28, 2000

Another album?

Yes, according to Shuki Weiss, the organizer for Radiohead’s concerts in Israel. He claims that the audiences enjoyed some of the new material that isn’t included on Kid A (“Egyptian Song”, “Knives Out”, etc…) that the band are planning to release another album this February or March. According to our sources here at Green Plastic, LP5 will be more like OK Computer than Kid A.

Nothing has been confirmed by the band or their management. This is just to let you know what’s going around in rumorland.
[thanks to followmearound.com]

Radiohead to play the US?

Recently a post was made to the alt.music.radiohead newsgroup by Zach Proulx detailing his adventure at Courtyard Management, Radiohead’s management group, and their studio nearby. Zach learned that the band may play two dates in the US this October – one in Los Angeles and one in New York City. The band will return a few months later to tour more extensively in the US and Canada. Again, nothing has been official announced so just keep in mind that this is just a rumor. We’ll have more once it’s available.
[thanks to ateaseweb.com]

Radiohead to play at Brad Pitt’s Wedding?

Rumours on the Radiohead front are that theyÌll be playing at the wedding of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston this weekend, but a spokesperson told Radio 1 the story is complete and utter rubbish.

[from the BBC]

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News for July 24, 2000

Thom’s page updated

drop the debt

Thom Yorke updated his page again today, this time blasting the G8 Leaders for not committing to drop the debt of the world’s poorest countries:

“You can’t eat the fucking web. This is free market killing. You have no-one to blame but yourselves and you know it. What kind of future are you expecting? You expecting to walk away, hands clean, white gloves? You expecting the trouble to cease? How will you sleep? When things turn nasty how will you explain yourself? What will you say to your children?”

For more info about the Drop the Debt campaign, head on over to www.dropthedebt.org. Also, check out www.nothingtofear.org.

Classic Radio 1 Sessions

You can listen to classic Radio 1 sessions with Radiohead this week every night between 8-10 pm (GMT). The sessions will also be available to those on the Web via realaudio atwww.bbc.co.uk/radio1.