There are a couple of showings of Radiohead’s Meeting People Is Easy coming up. One will be at the Walter Reade Theater on Aug 21 (2:45pm & 6:45pm) and Aug 22 (1:00pm, 5:10pm, & 9:15pm).
On August 23 and 24, The Dundee Theater in Omaha will be holding midnight screenings.
(thanks to Radiohead25 & Alex)
Meeting People is Easy will be aired on the Film & Arts channel in Latin America on Sunday, July 21 at 5am, 11am, and again at 8pm.
(thanks to happy knappy)
Radiohead’s unofficial sixth member, Nigel Godrich, has been interviewed by The Guardian Online. Nigel talks about computers, Napster, and why pen and paper is better than a Palm Pilot. {thanks to Spooky & Kate}
More Chicago Tickets!
According to Q101 FM, a limited number of additional tickets will go on-sale this Saturday (7/21) at 10am at all Ticketmaster outlets and the Park West Box Office for the August 1 show at Hutchinson Field in Grant Park (just South of Buckingham Fountain and North of Arvey Field) in Chicago. Tickets will NOT be available Online… only at the box office and TM outlets. Q101’s Robert Chase will be giving away tickets all this week between 10am – 2pm. Listen for your chance to be caller 101 at 312-591-8300 to win! {thanks to emil}
Radiohead Night
MTV 2 (UK) will be doing a “Radiohead Night” on July 23, 2001 starting at 9pm. Expect lots of goodies including interviews, live footage, and videos! {thanks to Poky & Gary Faulder}
Meeting People is Easy
The Bloor Cinema, located at 560 bloor west (Bloor and Bathurst) 416-516-2330, in Downtown Toronto will be showing Meeting People Is Easy on Friday, July 20 at 9:30 pm as a part of the opening night of the Britpics movie fest. {thanks to Marc}
Radiohead’s fifth album, Amnesiac, will be released today in pretty much all of the world. The United States and Canada will get it tomorrow, while New Zealand will have to wait until June 11. Enjoy!!
In video news…
In the latest newsletter from shots.net (the UK promo/ad industry mag), they indicated that Michel Gondry is set to direct a promo for Radiohead in June. Gondry has done videos for Bjork, Chemical Brothers, Rolling Stones, and Cibo Matto. For more info about him, check out this site and this site. {thanks to Kevin}
Radiohead has been nominated for the Band of the Year award at this year’s GQ Awards. You can vote for them at www.gq.com. {thanks to Christina}
You can now view scans of the Q & A special Thom did with Blender Magazine. {thanks to Sid}
Amnesiac is being featured as Record of the Month at the Portuguese site www.alternativeyouth.com/. Coincidentally, Green Plastic is featured as the Site of the Month! 🙂 {thanks to JM}
w.a.s.t.e. is now selling tickets to the shows in Japan.
Air-Radiohead.com has some photos of the Rock am Ring show and some mp3s of the Rock im Park show.
Speaking of the Rock im Park concert, you can see the setlist here.
There is a midnight showing of “Meeting People is Easy” at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL on June 8 & 9, 15 & 16 (Friday and Saturday nights). Here is the web site for more information. {thanks to Julia}
Here’s the latest press roundup:
– The Dallas Morning News gave Amnesiac a C+. {thanks to Jerry}
– Review of Amnesiac by Chicago Tribune. {thanks to Jason}
– People Magazine’s review of the new album. {thanks to Aurora}
– Nightshift’s review. Amnesiac is also mentioned on this page. {thanks to Karine}
More Playbacks!
An announcement was made on the official message board this morning that there would be more Kid A playbacks! Here’s what was posted:
Here’s an idea that may please some people. The very nice chaps at the record company are letting people listen to KID A before it is released…..in fact on the 4th or 7th of sept, depending on where you live.
here’s how.
You will need to go to your local indie record shop (see list below) to queue for your
ticket early on 2 September (probably earlier than opening time, yikes!!) – there
should be posters up instore about the playbacks.
– Tickets will be handed out on a first come, first served basis – strictly
1 ticket per person.
– The playbacks on either 4th or 7th September (depending on city) will
start at 7pm and finishing around 9pm at each venue.
MANCHESTER
Record shops to get ticket from: Picadilly, Vibes (in Bury), X Records (in
Bolton)
Playback date: Monday 4 September
Venue: The Roadhouse, 8 Newton St, Piccadilly, Manchester
GLASGOW
Record shops to get ticket from: Fopp, Avalanche, Record Factory (in
Paisley)
Playback date: Monday 4 September
Venue: King Tuts, 272A St Vincents Street, Glasgow.
NEWCASTLE
Record shops to get ticket from: Windows, RPM, Spin
Playback date: Thursday 7 September
Venue: The Cluny, Lime Street, Newcastle
OXFORD
Record shops to get ticket from: Polar Bear, Chalkys (in Banbury), Modern
Music (in Abingdon), Powerplay (in Newbury), Music Box (in Wallingford)
Playback date: Thursday 7 September
Venue: Zodiac, 190 Cowley Road, Oxford
CARDIFF
Record shops to get ticket from: Spillers, Hitman (in Newport), Diverse (in
Newport)
Playback date: Thursday September
Venue: Ifor Bach, 11 Womanby Street, City Centre, Cardiff
I think that’s about it.
Good luck people, we are relying on you.
Tinkerty Tonk
Mungo
It was also mentioned that some playbacks of Kid A will most likely happen in the United States soon!
Phil on Radio 21
Phil will be interviewed on the Belgian radio station, Radio 21, on Monday, August 28, between 2 and 3pm.
More blips to be made available
Pretty soon you’ll be able to view more official Radiohead blips promoting Kid A at www.chartattack.com. Go here to find out more!
Just when you think they’re gone
w.a.s.t.e. has graciously put up more tickets for the tent tour starting next month. Head on over here to order!
More articles
NME is running a story about Grant Gee (MPIE director) and Radiohead working on some live footage. Read that story here.
Dotmusic has a story about Radiohead’s fifth album, rumored to be out next Spring. They talked to one of Radiohead’s managers, Chris Hufford, who confirmed the release of a fifth album. Go here to read that article.
Godspeed to open for Radiohead?
More Blips at Capitol
That’s right. You can now see some more media blips at hollywoodandvine.com/radiohead/rh_news.shtml. There’s also some more goodies there!
Everyone has the exclusive
Here’s some of the review of Kid A from various news sources:
–NME
–Dotmusic
–Music365
–Telegraph
Radiohead’s Meeting People is Easy on the Sundance Channel
From Sundance:
While most rock documentaries simply record concerts and the daily grind of the road, in Meeting People Is Easy, filmmaker Grant Gee’s lenses focus on an important, though less-well-chronicled, aspect of the big-time music business: the PR tour. With Super 8 and hand-held video cameras Gee followed the British band Radiohead on its 1997-98 world tour for an unsettling glimpse of countless photo sessions, vapid interviews and tedious press junkets. The San Francisco Examiner praised the film as “Kubrickian in its atmospheric melancholy, foreboding disorientation and technical mischief.” (1999) TVPG (AC, AL) (1:34) Stereo Airing: Sep 6 2:35pm; 12 11:05am, 9:00pm; 18 9:00pm; 24 9:05am; 28 5:35pm, 3:00am