The Vapour Brothers have a new website up with a lot of Radiohead goodness, including clips of the “amateur night” webcasts Radiohead did while recording Kid A. The Vapour Brothers directed the “I Might Be Wrong” video and helped out with the promotional blips.
http://www.vapourbrothers.com/
(thanks to Kevin)
From www.worldpop.com:
Radiohead plan to go back into the studio in May to record a new album according to Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien. The guitarist told worldpop: ‘The band are planning a get-together in May in the studio. We’re putting all gigs on hold at the moment to concentrate on writing new material.’
Speaking at yesterday’s NME/Carling Awards where the band won the award for Best Video for Pyramid Song, O’Brien said the new album may be a return to a guitar based format, ditching the electronica the band experimented with on Kid A and Amnesiac. ‘We’re listening to a lot of guitar music at the moment,’ said O’Brien. ‘I like a lot of the new bands like Electric Soft Parade.’
‘It’s a bit embarrassing to pick up an award for Best Video,’ continued the guitarist, ‘because it wasn’t made by us.’
O’Brien also refuted the band’s critics who claim they make depressing records. ‘We don’t make unhappy records. We make uplifting ones,’ he said.
Radiohead’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood has also contributed to a new Bryan Ferry solo album entitled Frantic. The album is released on 15 April and Greenwood played on the track, Hiroshima.
{thanks to Dale at Liquidcat.}
Last Friday we told you about a short film called Reflections on Kid A being part of the Noise Pop Film Festival in San Franicisco on March 2, 2002.
Here’s the description from Noise Pop:
RADIOHEAD – REFLECTIONS ON KID A
Radiohead’s lead singer Thom Yorke gives a rare interview, interspersed with full-length live clips. The reclusive, private singer talks in-depth about the creative process, Kid A itself and the fallout from their massive hit LP OK Computer.
Dir. Rob Hodselmans, Netherlands 2000, 38 min.
Channel V in Australia will also be showing the interview on February 6, 2002 at 9pm.
{thanks to Deborah, Dean, Grant, Wookie, Dom, & Doug}
This year’s Noise Pop Film Festival in San Francisco will include a film called Reflections on Kid A. The only info we have on this film is that it will show at 3:30pm on March 2, 2002 at Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street.
Check out the Noise Pop website at http://www.noisepop.com/2002/
Radiohead picked up two nominations for this year’s Brit Awards – Best British Group and Best British Album (Kid A). The awards will be held on February 20, 2002 and will air on British TV the following day. For a full list of nominess, head on over to http://www.brits.co.uk.
{thanks to Richard, Paul, & John G}
Radiohead made it to # 15 in Spin magazine’s 50 Greatest Bands of All Time. Here’s the excerpt from the article:
On 1995’s The Bends, Radiohead were a compelling young Brit-pop band, but with follow-up OK Computer, they spooked rock fans into a new level of obsession. The album’s brooding minor chords and white-noise buzz grew more claustrophobic with each track, even as Thom Yorke’s personal-yet-impersonal lyrics made songs about car crashes and crushed insects somehow moving. Newer bands began to cop Radiohead’s paranoid but confessional, slurry but catchy approach. In response, they sighed deeply and recorded Kid A, somehow transforming glitchy prog rock into classic pop.
INFLUENCED: Travis, Sigur Ros, Coldplay, Clinic, JJ72, Doves, Elbow, Wes Borland
CLASSIC ALBUM: OK Computer
Chris Martin of Coldplay had the following to say about Radiohead: “When I saw Radiohead, I thought ‘Wow, maybe you really can do what you want and get away with it. They did exactly what they wanted and people responded…not everyone wants to listen to nonsense rock.”
{thanks to Lou}