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News for December 31, 1997

hi, how are you?

well, it’s the end of the year and all the awards are being passed out. Q magazine’s readers chose OK COMPUTER as the best album of all time. they also chose THE BENDS as the sixth best. Select magazine gave OKC 2nd best album of the year as Rolling Stone’s critic’s poll named radiohead band of the year. as stated earlier, Spin magazine also named radiohead band of the year. the british magazine, Mojo, named OKC album of the year also and also asked thom and colin what their favorite albums of 1997 were:

Thom: “Five of my favorite records from this year: Laika, ‘sounds of the satellites’. They toured with us and deserve more recognition; ‘Portishead’ by Portishead. This is their second album. It is better than the first. I love them… Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s ‘Arkology’. This counts doesn’t it? My favourite thing is listening to it while looking at photos of the studio before it burnt down. Guided By Voices, ‘Mag Earwhig’. The only band who have sussed recording and are happy to make things as long as my limited attention span will allow. Reminds me of Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’. Also Dr Octagon, ‘Octagynecologist’. Blue flowers is my favourite song of this year. Not sure about the sex stuff, but the rhymes shit all over the lyrics I’ve written.”

Colin: “Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, ‘Arkology’. ‘Portishead’ by Portishead is the best record this autumn… Belle & Sebastian’s song ‘A Century Of Fakers’. Teenage Fanclub, “songs from northern britain’. Supergrass, ‘in it for the money’. And Manuel Ponce, ‘Preludes’. Ah. Guitar!”

there will be a home video released soon which was filmed while the band was on tour earlier in the year. it will probably be released only in canada.
radiohead will not be at next year’s V98 festival in chelmsford/leeds. don’t look for them at glastonbury either.

singer stina nordernstam has been asked to help the band in their next video which still has yet to be named but will most likely be lucky. you might recall her from the romeo and juliet soundtrack which radiohead also was on.

the no surprises single will be released in australia on january 19 with the following b-sides: palo alto, how i made my millions, and airbag (live from berlin).

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News for December 18, 1997

select magazine has named thom the 2nd most important person in the world. noel oasis is 1. jonny was number 10, narrowly losing to bill clinton.

(gulp)

the ITV Chart Show is running a series of clips from my iron lung/ fake plastic trees/ creep and the first ever showing of the no surprises video on saturday december 20 at around 11:30am.

speaking of no surprises, it has been brought to my attention that it will not be chart eligible since it is being released on 4 formats. come again?
another piece of entertainment from the january issue of Select:

“Bought One Of Your Own Records?”
Colin Greenwood:
“No, we weren’t allowed to. We all walked into a record shop in Nottingham the day the first single, ‘Drill’ EP came out. We walked in, like ‘Mmmm, I’ll buy one of those.’ The guy behind the counter said, ‘Don’t worry man, we’ll give you one.’ We said, ‘No! We really want to buy one.’ He said, ‘Look- your record company’s just given us 20 free ones, and we can’t shift them, not even for 99p, so you might as well have a free one.’ We were very depressed.”

the no surprises/running from demons japanese tour ep has been released. it includes a nice remix of the song pearly*.

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News for December 13, 1997

well, the tour dates for the australian tour have finally been announced. doesn’t mean much to me for i live on the other side of the world. oh well, here they are anyway:

tuesday january 27, 1997- wellington, new zealand
wednesday january 28, 1997- auckland, new zealand
sunday february 1- melbourne, australia
wednesday february 4- sydney, australia
friday february 6- brisbane, australia
sunday february 8- adelaide, australia
tuesday february 10- perth, australia

tickets for these dates will go on sale december 15 through ticketmaster.

jonny greenwood has reportedly been recording some material with tori amos in england recently, probably for her new album coming out this spring. more info on this when it is made available.

the b-sides for the next UK single, No Surprises, are:
CD1 No Surprises, Palo Alto, How I Made My Millions
CD2 No Surprises, Airbag (live from huxley’s, berlin 11/03/97), Lucky (live)
7″ No Surprises, Palo Alto
No Surprises will be released in the UK on january 12, 1998

hey, puff daddy loves radiohead. is that good? will he be in the next video? read the new rolling stone magazine for puffy’s love for complaint rock and a nice feature with thom.

if you live in france, then you can get the new Lucky single with the b-sides Meeting in the Aisle and Climbing Up the Walls (fila brazilla mix)
the video for No Surprises has been shot and will hopefully get aired in the UK during christmas.

if prodigy can show full frontal nudity on MTV USA with their video Smack My Bitch Up, why did MTV blur radiohead’s animated breasts in the video for Paranoid Android? sheeesh

Spin Magazine has named our boys “Band of the Year.” they would of had “Artist of the Year” and a cover picture but Spin decided to choose an artist who only lived in 1997 for 2 months.

hey, this page was featured on MTV UK’s “Up For It” program.

don’t forget to watch radiohead perform this friday on MTV’s Live at the 10 Spot. they’ll get 90 minutes to play so get your vcrs ready, it looks like daddy’s gonna stay in on friday night.