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News for December 14, 1999

Lord! More article about the webcast, courtesy of the ever attentive Xavier, are at VH-1, Music365, Chart Attack, and those crazy Ink Blot guys. 🙂
And speaking of the webcast, expect more of them in the future. This is one of the latest additions in Ed’s Diary:

“first ‘live’ performance in front of an audience for exactly (and strangely) a year……..it was early morning so it was the 10th. it started with jonny (aka DJ REQUIRED) and thom’s dj set and then a last minute executive decision was made to play ‘knives out’ around the xmas tree. ‘amateur hour’ will hopefully become a regular night for us – but will be different each time – there will however be ongoing items like phil’s puppet show. for those who don’t know what i’m going on about – we did a live web broadcast to about 250 people – courtesy of tim bran and those lovely people at the ninja tunes label.”

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News for December 1, 1999

Radiohead made it on MTV’s “100 Greatest Videos Ever Made” special. “Fake Plastic Trees” came in at # 77. You can watch the countdown on December 6th through December 11th at 8PM Est.

Maybe you’d like to check out the new pictures that were taken and messed up by Jonny? They are quite nice and hopefully there will be more. This is what Stan (the Man) had to say:

“theyre jonnys photos done with liquid light onto scrappy peices of paper
hes going to do some more but i dont know how soon theyll be up in that gallery
ps youre supposed to imagine the music from ‘the gallery’ in take hart/vision on while you look at them”

Why don’t you go take a look.

If you’re a member of w.a.s.t.e., be on the look out for an email in the coming days. If you have no idea what w.a.s.t.e. is or would like to join it, go there.

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News for August 31, 1999

Not much going on really. There is an interview with Stanley Donwood (Radiohead’s resident artist) in the online music magazine Jetlag (www.jetlagmag.com). There’s even four new images available to see!

Members of the band were spotted at this year’s Reading Festival. Enough said.

BBC has begun showing adverts for the new drama series Eureka Street. It’s starting on September 13th and will air twice a week. There was some music playing in the background, which was probably the Radiohead stuff (sounded like their music, well produced and varied). The series itself looks to be excellent as well, with a gritty feel and decent acting.

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News for August 16, 1999

The official Radiohead site is due to have another over-haul, this time with diaries from the band and photos of rehearsals. The following note from Stanley Donwood was found at http://www.uppermilton.freeserve.co.uk:

> glad you like the site
> were changing it completely again
> very soon > work is thoroughly in progress
> there will be diaries from the band
> photos of rehearsals
> and much more fun

Ok, this isn’t really news, but it’s Radiohead related:
In the August issue of Details magazine, there is a article called “Turn Her On Without Touching Her.” Radiohead’s album The Bends was included in the “12 albums that we all agree ‘get us in our girly parts.'” Here’s the list:

Radiohead – The Bends
Liz Phair – Whitechocolatespaceegg
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Crowded House – Recurring Dream
Freedy Johnston – This Perfect World
Al Green – Greatest Hits
Lloyd Cole – Lloyd Cole
Heather Nova – Oyster
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Echo and the Bunnymen – What Are You Going to Do With Your Life?
Brian Ferry/Roxy Music – Street Life
Garbage – Version 2.0

thanks to willis.warren@cheerful.com

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News for June 26, 1999

Ok, back from vacation… let’s sum up:

In case you haven’t noticed, the official Radiohead website designed by the amazing Stanley Donwood has been updated with a whole new look with lots of irrelevant goodies. Take the day off from work and explore!

Happy Birthday to Colin who turns 30 today! He recently got married also in the U.S. Way to go Colin! Phil has become a father! His wife gave birth to a baby boy. If you would like to write to either Colin or Phil, or any band member for that matter, write to them at:

w.a.s.t.e. products
PO Box 322
Oxford
OX4 1EY
United Kingdom

“Meeting People is Easy” is selling very well in the U.S. Here is the latest Billboard Top Video Sales report:

“Austin Powers,” New Line Home Video
“You’ve Got Mail,” Warner Home Video
“Alien Resurrection,” Fox Video
“Radiohead: Meeting People is Easy,” Capitol Video
“A Bug’s Life,” Walt Disney Home Video

Thom played an amazing acoustic set aided by Jonny at the Tibetan Freedom Concert on June 13 in Amsterdam. They started off with a new song with Thom on piano. The song has no known title and has the lyrics ‘Nothing to fear / Nothing to die for’ in it. If you’ve visited the updated official Radiohead website you may notice that this page has those lyrics. Thom and Jonny also played “Street Spirit”, “Wear it Proudly” (an Elvis Costello cover), “Lucky”, “Karma Police”, and “Exit Music”.

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News for May 23, 1999

Not much going on…

This is from the Radiohead Announce List:

news on the ‘official’ hahaha radiohead site
:
as far as i am concerned
the site is ready and will be online on
first of june 1999
im becoming frustrated by constant delays
we have been working on the site for ages
its all new stuff and hopefully will be interesting
if it is later than first of june
i will be really pissed off
and it wont be my fault i am very sorry it has taken so long
its not because were slack
its to do with stuff so boring i cant even be bothered to talk about it
sincerely
stanley donwood