Announced today on the official festival site, Thom Yorke will be playing the third and final night of Coachella. He is billed as Thom Yorke ???? which we assume is still the running name of his side band.
More information can be found at coachella.com.
Oh, and sorry about the lack of updates. It’s been a long time and sometimes life comes up and have you to ignore some things in order to focus on the more important. We’re back and looking forward to an exciting year!
The following is a review of the recent European tour by Vincent Cornelli, a photographer in New York City, who attended every one of the shows. He graciously offered to write up a review of the whole tour, as well as take photos for us. Make sure to see all the photos after the jump.
In my opinion, there’s no better way to see the world than to hit up destination festivals and tours. It fosters the best of encounters, friendships, and ultimately, sonic experiences…especially when it comes to a band like Radiohead. I recently returned from a trip to Europe following Radiohead’s five show mini-tour.
On August 19th, I set out on my mission. First stop, Austria’s Frequency Festival.
For many of us, Radiohead is a band that continues to remain relevant in our lives. For me, it started when The Bends surfaced. Upon it’s release, I was not the biggest fan of Pablo Honey…not to fault the album, but at that point in my life I was counter to anything mainstream. So, from the days of The Bends to present, Radiohead continues to create amazing music by pulling from older influences of styles, percussions, etc, and fusing it with their iconic sound and direction. Their lyrics, ideologies, and actions tend to strike a chord that allows us to look past the current pretenses we’re spoon fed, and they continue to suggest that we look forward.
But, the greatest part of it all is that I am not alone here.
Radiohead’s live experience means something. One thing in common at all of the Radiohead shows I’ve attended is that incredible people permeate, and share this same view. In the nine countries I’ve ever traveled to see this band, I am always surprised to come back to the same conclusion – I am not alone. This tour has again proved exactly that – I have met individuals who traveled from six of our seven continents to bare witness to this five show stint. Call me a hippie, but this tour is proof positive that the dream is alive.
For many reasons, I would have to say that Poznan, Poland proved to be their best show of 2009.
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Radiohead performed their first show last night of the new tour, and their first ever show in Austria. The setlist contained a good selection of songs from all albums except Pablo Honey, including a rare “(Nice Dream)” performance. As expected, the band played “These Are My Twisted Words” live for the first time and it was described as “amazing.”
Here’s the setlist:
1. 15 Step
2. There There
3. Airbag
4. All I Need
5. Kid A
6. The National Anthem
7. Nude
8. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
9. The Gloaming
10. Myxomatosis
11. Climbing Up The Walls
12. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
13. Videotape
14. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
15. Karma Police
16. Bodysnatchers
17. Idioteque
Encore:
18. These Are My Twisted Words
19. Pyramid Song
20. Reckoner
21. (Nice Dream)
22. Paranoid Android
Encore 2:
23. Everything In Its Right Place
If you went to the show, make sure to leave a review in our gigography!
Radiohead continue the tour tomorrow night in Prague.
Radiohead is back on tour starting tonight at the Frequency Festival in Austria. As always, we welcome your reviews at our gigography.
What can we expect tonight? New songs? Jonny alluded to that on DAS on Monday. We’ll see….
Excellent recap of what’s been going on lately in Radioheadland from Spinner about the whole “Radiohead is not making any more albums” hysteria:
Is the world over-reacting about the possible “no albums” future of Radiohead?
Media reports have barked, blared and bleated this week that the band is turning its back on albums after an interview with frontman Thom Yorke in the Believer magazine hit the internet.
“None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again,” Yorke told the magazine. “Not straight off … It worked with ‘In Rainbows’ because we had a real fixed idea about where we were going. But we’ve all said that we can’t possibly dive into that again. It’ll kill us.”
Yorke then spoke of his desire to release an orchestral EP, using multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood’s increasingly impressive talents as an arranger.
Playing at the 7 Worlds Collide show at London’s Dingwalls on Tuesday, drummer Phil Selway showed an impressive voice as he sang two songs ‘The Ties That Bind Us’ and ‘The Witching Hour’.
He and guitarist O’Brien spent a month in New Zealand in December and January helping with the Neil Finn-helmed album ‘The Sun Came Out’.
Selway later told Spinner he will record his debut solo album in Radiohead’s studio in September.
Radiohead are currently rehearsing for their appearances at Reading and Leeds festivals later this month, the latest in a string of live dates since the digital-then-physical release of seventh studio album ‘In Rainbows’ at the end of 2007.
It seems that amid the revelations the band want to do more single-song releases or EPs — like the recent ‘Harry Patch (In Memory Of)’ — Yorke’s proviso “not straight off” has been glossed over.
The torturous recording of ‘OK Computer’ (1997) and the subsequent touring put Yorke in a less than sanguine mood, but after a three-year gap the band responded with not one album but two (‘Kid A’, ‘Amnesiac’) with a little over a year.
At the 7 Worlds Collide show, as Neil Finn rounded off the various band members recording achievements, guitarist Ed O’Brien offered a shaky hand single for “maybe” when Finn mentioned Radiohead might be working on a new record. That’s not a no, but a maybe.
Interviewed on the UK’s BBC Breakfast TV news on Wednesday, Selway left the question regards “no new albums” unanswered.
Maybe Radiohead need to attend to some personal projects before they reconvene to make another album, with all the effort that requires. It would be churlish not to let them.
Spotted on our message board, Mortigi Tempo: Full Radiohead performance at Glastonbury 1997. It was filmed from the crowd, so not the best visual quality but the audio is top notch, especially considering this is from a VHS to DVD transfer. Enjoy!