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News for April 17, 2000

Radiohead.com #1

Shift Magazine has Radiohead’s own official website listed as number 1 in their “Top 5 Artist Sites”. Congrats to Stanley and rest of the gang at w.a.s.t.e. for their great work! You can read the article here.
(thanks to Steve)

“You won’t have to wait too long now.”
Ed has updated his diary again, with lots of great info about how the recording process is going. We suggest you go and read it now.

Bjork and Thom Not to Duet?
It wouldn’t be a Monday without some disappointing news. Q Magazine is now saying that the duet that was announced earlier this month between Bjork and Thom Yorke has not happened.

A spokesman for the Bjork said that rumor was not true, even though her official website has confirmed the rumor. Who do we believe? Stay near a monitor for further details as they come in. In the mean time, check out the article at Q Online.

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News for April 15, 2000

We would like to wish Ed O’Brien a very happy birthday today! What is Ed planning for this wonderful day? I don’t know, but the other old folks at the shuffleboard court better watch out! 🙂

Seriously, we hope the young Ed has a great day!

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News for March 9, 2000

Ed Makes the News

Dotmusic is reporting about one of Ed’s latest diary entries, in which he “attacks” former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Meltdown 2000 News

The official Meltdown 2000 Festival website is up and running at www.meltdown.co.uk.

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News for February 21, 2000

Everything Back In It’s Right Place

The band return to work today after having last week off. Ed updated his diary recently with some promising news:

“…who knows maybe in the next few weeks we may even finish off the recording of the songs we’ve been working on?”

Boy, wouldn’t that be great!
You can read the rest of his diary at www.radiohead.com/us.html.

Those Aussies Love Their Radiohead
The Australian music magazine, Massive, recently had their “Hottest 100 Albums of All Time”, voted by the lovely people of Australia. Radiohead scored twice in the top ten:
1. OK Computer – Radiohead
2. Nevermind – Nirvana
3. Grace – Jeff Buckley
4. The Beatles – The Beatles
5. Stone Roses – Stone Roses
6. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
7. The Joshua Tree – U2
8. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – Midnight Oil
9. Houses of the Holy – Led Zeppelin
10. The Bends – Radiohead
(thanks to Stanard)

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News for February 11, 2000

What a night! The band put on their second webcast last night and left us all wanting more! At around 6pm Eastern time, Radiohead set up their turntables and video cameras and partied for almost 4 hours!

The evening was full of excitement. Ed, Phil, and Colin took turns playing DJ, while the others danced around (Go Mel!) and sat by the fire outside. The highlight of the evening was definitely the introduction of three new songs. Thom, Jonny, and Phil had a little jam session which was incredible, called “There there”, by Thom. That was followed later by Jonny and his electronic toys.

The band got together at the end and played another new song with Ed on vocals, even though he wasn’t really singing. “Ed was pulling wurds out of the magic top hat which i use,” said Thom.

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News for February 9, 2000

Ed’s online diary has been updated again with all the latest on the recording process. Here’s an excerpt:

“what an amazing day. fantastic string arrangements by jonny and what players. many many thanks are due to john lubbock(who conducted and organised) and the string players from the orchestra of st. john’s, smith square. the whole session was the complete antithesis to the ok computer experience; firstly rather than de-camping to some london studio we used an old abbey near us with the most fantastic acoustics to record in. i think nigel was totally blown away by the whole sound of it. but most importantly john and the players were so enthusiastic about it all…..jonny has certain things that he wants/wanted to try out that aren’t your usual string arrangements. and rather than dismiss his ideas ( which is what happened on the ok computer session) they were open-minded enough to try them.”

Ed also mentions that the master tape of “Innocents Civilian” has come up missing. Nigel had this to say on the official message board:

“Personally I think we have a bit of a tape labelling/catalogueing user interface error, but certain others are somewhat freaking about it. I’m sure it’ll turn up.”

OK, go and read the rest of the diary.
Copyright

Another new and unreleased song has been found copyrighted. The song “I Will” joins “Follow Me Around”, “Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any), and “Living in a Glass House” as possible finished songs that are copyrighted with Warner/Chappell.

Also, two unknown songs were found copyrighted by Jonny Greenwood: “Jet” and “Tinitus”. (click on each song to view the description from Warner/Chappell)
Again, this is no indication on what songs will be on the new album.
(thanks to Xavier)