We would like to wish Thom Yorke a Happy 33rd Birthday! The fine people at nothing-to-fear.org have set up a way that you can help contribute to Thom’s birthday present while also helping out with a very important issue. Click here for more info.
In Time magazine’s special “Music Goes Global” issue, Radiohead was named as one of the “Ten Best Bands on the Planet Earth.” The list is described as “the top contemporary acts outside the U.S.” Other notables that made the list include U2, Sigur Ros, and Portishead.
The band was also mentioned in the main article (along with a picture of Thom):
“Thom Yorke of the British band Radiohead wrote some songs for his album Kid A by cutting up lyric sheets and pulling lines out of a top hat.”
{thanks to Paul & Seema}
The very funny site, http://www.thewafer.co.uk, has the following “satirical” article up on their site:
Radiohead’s lead singer, Thom Yorke has controversially announced that he, “can’t think of anything to be sad or angry about, anymore.” The Oxford born singer/songwriter, best known for some of the most angst ridden and meaningful songs in music told Musical Box magazine in an interview published this week that, “I’ve come to a stage, and I think that the band have aswell, where we’ve run out of things to be bothered about. Everywhere you look there’s celebrities taking up world issues and going on the television, and making speeches. Our manager showed us a list of things that we could adopt as our like, personal crusade. But all that was left was a nature reserve in Malta. It wasn’t even a big nature reserve. I mean, bollocks…”
Livid Festival
There was a rumor that Radiohead may play the Livid Festival in Australia. Unfortunately, their name did not appear on the just released line-up. {thanks to Nick}
Kim from radiohead.org got to meet and interview Thom after the show in Oslo. Go here to read it!!
Thom recently told P3, a Swedish Radio station, that Jonny was currently writing some music for a film. He didn’t give any details on it but said that he might be in on it too. Stay tuned!!! {thanks to Lola}
You can now download and watch the episode of Space Ghost with Thom and Bjork here! 🙂