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Beck’s puppets trash Radiohead’s hotel room

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Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

Cult rocker Beck was forced to apologise to British band Radiohead after his stage marionettes allegedly trashed the OK Computer stars’ hotel room. The Loser star and his band have been joined onstage at recent shows by marionettes, each representing a band member, who copy the movements of their human counterparts. The marionettes also star in a film between the end of the performance and the encore. Beck holds the puppets responsible after Radiohead found their hotel rooms trashed following the V Festival in the UK last month, where they both appeared. Beck says, “Yeah, we apologised to Radiohead for that. But, y’know – what can we do? They’re puppets.”
(source: ContactMusic)

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RH at the Beck gig

Here’s an article from CDNow about Radiohead showing up at the recent Beck show in Los Angeles:

Last week, New York may have had the VMAs, but L.A. had Beck, whose sold-out show on Friday (Aug. 30) at the intimate Wadsworth Theater gave those pesky folks at MTV a run for their star-power wattage.
Celebs literally took over the whole venue — spotted towards the front was a veritable convention of Hollywood’s young it-listers, including Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Lee, and Rachel Weisz. Hanging out on the sides were Ben Stiller and Tom Hanks’ wife, Rita Wilson (not together, silly!), while uberproducer Jon Brion and his celeb plus-two (that would be Fiona Apple and beau Paul Thomas Anderson) held court right in the middle of the theater.
By far the coolest star sighting, though, were all five members of Radiohead, fresh from a European tour, giving Beck a standing ovation for his subdued encore run-through of Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning.” Instead of leaving right after the song, Thom Yorke and Co. just stood there looking stunned before being whisked by security into the backstage area.

(thanks to Zack)

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Thom Yorke

MP3 of “I’m Set Free”

To download the mp3 of the Velvet Underground’s “I’m Set Free” that Beck and Thom performed last week at the Wiltern in LA, go to http://www.injektilo-ftp.com/.

Happy downloading!

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Thom Yorke

Nigel Godrich & Beck

The original genre-hopper, Beck, has teamed up with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich to work on his upcoming album. The pair previously worked together on Beck’s 1998 acoustic departure, Mutations, which was recorded in around two week’s time. According to NME, sources close to the singer say that Beck hopes to have the same type of work schedule on the new album, about a song a day. As previously reported, Dan the Automator has also been working on the new album, which has yet to be named or given a release date. Beck took time out from working on the album on Tuesday (February 26) to take part in a benefit for the Recording Artists’ Coalition in support of of Senate Bill 1246 – legislation to repeal California Labor Code 2855 that excludes recording artists from 1987’s “Seven-Year Statute.” At the event, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke made a surprise appearance, joining Beck for a show-stopping rendition of the Velvet Underground’s “I’m Set Free.”

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Thom Yorke

Thom and Beck!

Last night Thom joined Beck onstage at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles to sing a duet of the Velvet Underground’s “I’m Set Free”. The concert was a benefit for RAC (Recording Artists Colilition). If you have a recording of this, please email us!

Don’t forget the Grammys tonight!

{thanks to KarmaJunkie & Ben}

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Radiohead

News for April 13, 1998

In the current issue of Spin magazine, Radiohead is listed as the second most vital artist or band in rock today. Beck is number 1.