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North American Tour

We just want to make sure everyone is clear about the ticket sales for the first leg of the North American tour. Turn to MTV.com to pre-order tickets to the first six dates. The pre-sale runs from Thursday, May 10, at 10am ET to Friday, May 11th, 10pm ET. Log on early! A sale to the general public will happen this weekend so to avoid any problems, we would advise you get your tickets through the pre-sale. For a list of the tour dates and more detailed ticket info, check our tour dates page. 🙂

Speaking of MTV, Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song” is one of the “Play My Song” videos listed for TRL. You can go here and vote for it to appear on TRL. For some reason MTV goofed and has the title of “Pyramid Song” as “Never Had a Dream Come True”. True, true…
Thom Yorke sits down and talks shop with the NME in their newest issue. Why has Thom decided to once again talk to the magazine after 5 years of ignoring them? “I just got sick of holding grudges basically.” Read more here.
HMV.com is holding a sweet contest that any Radiohead fan will salivate over. 5 lucky winners will win a prize pack with the following goodies:

– 1 Advance Limited Edition copy of ‘Amnesiac’
– 1 Limited Edition copy of ‘Kid A’
– 1 DVD of Radiohead film “Meeting People is Easy”
– 1 CD single for “I Might be Wrong”
– 1 vinyl & 1 CD version of the single for “Idioteque”
– 1 Interview CD with Johnny and Colin Greenwood

There is a catch, however. The winners will get their advance copy of Amnesiac before it’s release so they can put on their own listening party. For more details check here. Please note: The contest is only open to Canadians.

Make sure to check out the great interview Colin and Ed did for Ground Zero at www.spinner.com/groundzero

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Ticket Information

Here’s some more ticket information for you:

June 27, 2001 7:30pm Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California
Tickets go on sale May 13th at 10:00am PT at Ticketmaster
Ticket price is $38.50 for Reserved/General Admission and includes parking and charity.
June 18, 2001 7:30pm Woodlands Pavillion, Woodlands, Texas
Tickets go on sale May 12, 2001 at 12:00pm at Ticketmaster or by calling 713-629-3700.
Ticket price is $35.00
There is an 8 ticket limit per person.

Thom Yorke makes a brief appearance as an evil, robot-controlling mastermind in “The Meathead Perspective”, a Nine Inch Nails-related “humor” site, specifically in Chapter 68 of an ongoing fantasy story entitled “Where the Hell is the DVD”.
There will be an Amnesiac listening party in Singapore.

Date: May 24th
Time: 6pm
Venue: Vivamusic Hub, Cineleisure Orchard, Singapore

You may enter to win passes to the party by going to Radiohead Fanclub *Singapore Division*
“Life in a Glass House” will premiere on BBC Radio 2 on May 21, Humphrey Lyttleton’s Birthday. read the full article here.

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Pyramid Song Video

– Good news for those in the US who haven’t seen the “Pyramid Song” video yet. On Monday, May 7 at 10pm ET, MTV will premiere the video on their show Videos To Watch. {thanks to Eric}

– As stated yesterday, Billboard.com reports the following:

Radiohead’s publicity representatives have retracted the additional North American tour dates released to the media yesterday (May 2). 11 dates were announced, including a two-night stand in August at the Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., but the group’s representatives are now stressing that those dates are unconfirmed.

Stay tuned!!!

– The following news is courtesy of FMA, our partna in crime:
Thom answered three questions at Spin with a Grin. He commented on singles, politics and why there’s another version of Morning Bell on Amnesiac: “because it came from such a different place from the other version. because we only found it again by accident after having forgotten about it. because it sounds like a recurring dream. it felt right.”

– Stanley Donwood is publishing his own book! For more details, check his site.

– You can enter to win tickets to exclusive Amnesiac listening parties in the US at the Capitol Records site.

– From Planet Telex: BBC Radio One’s Evening Session and Mark and Lard show will be running a competition to win tickets to the Verona date on May 30th, listen to the station for more details. Thom will be in the studio with Mark and Lard (1pm-3pm) from Verona to play a live track on the day.

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News for September 13, 2000

Radiohead to play Los Angeles on October 20th

It’s official. Radiohead will be playing the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on October 20, 2000. You can read the full article at cdnow.com here.

Radiohead’s Plan B!

This is from nme.com:

RADIOHEAD are in the studio working on a new album, due for release in Spring 2001, just six months after their new, ‘KID A’ album is out, nme.com can reveal.

The album is believed to contain the more accessible, commercial material which the band have written and recorded over the last two years and will be promoted by a full-scale tour of the UK and Europe. Songs tipped to appear on the new album include ‘Knives Out’, ‘Egyptian Song’ and ‘Dollars And Cents’ which the band have played on recent live outings.

Unlike ‘Kid A’, which frontman Thom Yorke allegedly wanted to name ‘ENC’ to stand for ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’, the 2001 Radiohead album is expected to be accompanied by single releases and promotional duties.

Go here to read the full article.

Radiohead’s Kid A on M2

M2 (MTV 2 USA) will be playing KID A in its entirety on the channel Monday, September 18th at 10pm ET. M2 is also playing exclusive blips and Radiohead has been deemed buzzworth at MTV.

Kid A Press

Check out the latest issues of Jane and Mens Journal. Both have reviews of Kid A.

Chart Attack is reporting about the possibility of Radiohead playing in Toronto at the end of October. Go here to read the article. [thanks Jarrod]

Wall of Sound has a article about the Napster leaking. Go here for that. [thanks Plajia]

Thom talks about Optimistic on the radio

Thom made an appearance on the official message board this morning and made a comment about the Vancouver radio station (104.9 XFM) playing “Optimistic” before they were supposed to. (Read yesterday’s news for more info.)

Thom had this to say:

“yeah its fairly pointless i agree
but why should they get to play it exclusively first on RADio with no permission from us? that seems unfair. they new it would get on our tits.

its far worse to me than napster which is more just like home taping.
why should they be able to boast about having it? anyfool could do the same..

anyway it will be irrelevant next week…. its been a nightmare sitting on Kid A for 4months. having to destroy your CDs after listening all the stupid security around the journalists listening to it.

for us it was just to try and keep things nice and cool…

anyway you can all decide for yourselves now, which is cool. whatever we are proud of it we hope yooz like it. and that ll be that and we can get on with our lives”

Kid A release date in Latin America

Kid A will be released on October 2 in Latin America and most other parts of the world, except for the US and Canada, where it’ll be released the day after.

In Bogota, Colombia, there will be an event at the Tower Records on the release date in which limited edition copies of Kid A will be available for purchase.

[thanks to Andres]

Limited Edition Kid A

Many people have been questioning the availability of the limited edition version of Kid A, which includes a extra booklet that is hidden inside the jewel case. If you purchase Kid A on it’s first run, you’ll get the limited edition. This means that if anyone picks up a copy during the first week or so, they will get one. If you pre-order from stores or online vendors, you should get one also.

Listening Party in Chicago!

Aliveone, a bar in Chicago is throwing a listening party for Kid A on the Wednesday following the release (October 3rd). Along with the full album, many live tracks will also be played. For more info on Aliveone and directions, head on over to www.aliveone.com.

Webcast of last Tuesday’s show!

Go to www.menatwork.be to listen to 45 minutes of Radiohead show in Belgium last Tuesday!

[thanks to Nick]

Another playback added for the US

You can now enter to win tickets to a playback of Kid A in Chicago on October 2! Go here for more info and for more playbacks.

 

 

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News for September 6, 2000

Last night’s playback in NYC

The Kid A playback for media and fans went very well last night in the Sony IMAX theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City. The lucky people who were let in were treated to a multimedia display on the huge IMAX screen while they listened to Kid A. We have a couple of reviews for you, one from someone who attended the playback and the media cocktail party, and some from fans who were let in. Enjoy!

You can also read NME’s article about it here.

Now you can “see it all”

MTV has just introduced “webeos”, music videos on the web. On of their first ones is a webeo for Bjork’s “I’ve Seen It All” but unfortunately it is a version without Thom. Nevertheless, it’s pretty neat! Go here to view!

Thom recently did a duet with Bjork on the song for her soundtrack to her movie “Dancer in the Dark.” The soundtrack, with the Thom version, will be out on September 15th.

[thanks to Jarrod]

Just a reminder…

That Kid A will be played on Steve Lamaq’s show on the UK radio station, Radio 1, on Monday, September 18th. The album will also be aired on the Dutch radio station VPRO, on the same night. The airing will happen between 22:00 and 23:00.

If you can’t listen to it, there will be many airings of the album plus other goodies on a lot of the fan sites, including Green Plastic, courtesy of Capitol Record’s iBlip. If you have a Radiohead site and would like to host the iBlip, go here. The fun should start on September 11th.

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News for August 31, 2000

Radiohead Interview in Q

Thom Yorke Q MagazineRadiohead have admitted that the lengthy conception of their new album Kid A sparked a number of “crisis meetings” for the band – a reaction reflected by the revelation that one song – Knives Out (which didn’t even end up on the album) – took 373 days to complete.

In an exclusive interview in the October issue of Q Magazine (on sale 1 September), Ed O’Brien said that the absence of a deadline imposed by their label, Parlophone prompted “brain overload”. He said, “Human beings need a sense of order to what we can handle. If there are too many unfinished things, where do you focus? If you’ve got 30 or 40 things started and you’ve made no decisions on any of them, it causes you to knee-jerk and panic at times. We had several crisis meetings.”

The band also reveal their top secret publicity photographs for the launch of the album, a series of manipulated portraits created by Thom Yorke and his “mate Dan”, which depict each band member with modified features and pale eyes. The experiment he says, was because he’s “fed up of seeing my face everywhere. It got to the point where it didn’t feel like I owned it. We’re not interested in being celebrities, and others seem to have different plans for us. I’d like to see them try to put these pictures on a poster [giggles]”.

Read the complete interview in Q, out tomorrow (Friday 1 September).

-From Q

More Kid A Press

Why don’t you go over to www.juice.net and read a recap of their interview with Thom Yorke? To read the full interview, you’ll have to wait until the magazine is released to newstands in Australia on September 25.

NME also has some quotes made by Thom in one of his other interviews with Q. You can read them here.

Canoe, a Canadian music site, has a review of Kid A for your reading pleasure.