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News for April 24, 2000

Radioheadless Chicken

From Planet Telex:
Exeter-based label Hometown Atrocities have uncovered an early pre-Radiohead recording featuring Thom Yorke. Thom played guitar in the band Headless Chickens during the late 80’s while at Exeter University. Their song “I Don’t Want To Go To Woodstock” appears on the compilation CD “Year Zero / The Exeter Punk Scene 1977 – 2000”, available by mail order directly from Hometown Atrocities for 10 uk pounds or from Opal Music.

Greece Tickets
As mentioned last week, the dates in Greece are on sale now. For those who live outside of Greece but are wanting tickets, hop on over to http://www.didimusic.gr/index2.htm and click on the “news” section for info on how to get tickets.

For those living in Greece, head on over to Ticket House. There are two locations:
Thessaloniki: Patsis Record Shop, 39-41 Tsimiski St.
Musicland Records, 102 Mitropoleos St

Finally, the ticket’s price for all three shows is 12,000 DRS.

The doors will open at 20:00 and the start time is 22:00 (approximately).
(thanks to Nafsika)

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News for April 17, 2000

Radiohead.com #1

Shift Magazine has Radiohead’s own official website listed as number 1 in their “Top 5 Artist Sites”. Congrats to Stanley and rest of the gang at w.a.s.t.e. for their great work! You can read the article here.
(thanks to Steve)

“You won’t have to wait too long now.”
Ed has updated his diary again, with lots of great info about how the recording process is going. We suggest you go and read it now.

Bjork and Thom Not to Duet?
It wouldn’t be a Monday without some disappointing news. Q Magazine is now saying that the duet that was announced earlier this month between Bjork and Thom Yorke has not happened.

A spokesman for the Bjork said that rumor was not true, even though her official website has confirmed the rumor. Who do we believe? Stay near a monitor for further details as they come in. In the mean time, check out the article at Q Online.

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News for April 11, 2000

Thom and PJ Harvey – Update

We have confirmation from a source close to the PJ Harvey Camp that Thom Yorke is definitely collaborating with the singer/songwriter on at least one track for her upcoming album, due to be released this Fall. Thom is expected to join Harvey in the studio sometime in the near future. We still don’t have confirmation from Radiohead so stay tuned for more info!

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News for April 7, 2000

Thom and PJ Harvey?

Pitchforkmedia.com is reporting today that Thom will be on Polly Jean Harvey’s new album, scheduled to be released this Fall on Island Records. Thom will be lending his vocals on at least one track. We, of course, are still waiting some confirmation from Radiohead. This comes after last week’s announcement of Thom and Bjork collaborating on her movie/soundtrack project. (see below).

(Many thanks to Rania)

Another New Radiohead Book
American writer Mac Randall, the former senior editor of Musician Magazine who’s currently at Launch.com, also has a biography coming out this Spring, entitled “Exit Music: The Radiohead Story.”
(thanks to LLJay@aol.com)

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News for March 28, 2000

“Bjork and Yorke”

Gosh, how long have we waited for this?! Radiohead’s own Thom Yorke has done a duet with the Icelandic goddess, Bjork, according to nme.com. The song, which remains untitled, will be included on the new Lars von Trier film, “Dancer in the Dark”,in which Bjork will be taking her first cinematic leading role.

The film will premier at the Cannes Film Festival and will then open in Britain in September. You can read the NME article here. Before you slag it off as another rumor, check out Bjork’s official website. Stay tuned!
In New Album News

According to Planet Telex, the band has nearly completed recording and will now focus on mixing the album. The album release date could be pushed back until October… Nothing has been confirmed yet.

Check It Out…

Make sure to check out the newest issue of Melody Maker. It has a “Radiohead Revealed” feature with some tidbits about the new album and about Thom’s duet with Bjork. It’s available in all newsagents in Britain.

And Finally, Radiohead’s tour manager in France, Hilda Carr, was on B. Lenoir’s radio show (Radio France) last Thursday. She talked about the tour dates in France and said to tune in this week to find out how to get tickets for the French gigs. (thanks followmearound.com)

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News for March 24, 2000

Another Webcast

Radiohead held another webcast last night and at one point over 1000 people were tuning in, making it difficult for many to watch it without the dreaded “net congestion” popping up. The festivities began around 4pm EST and lasted until about 8:30pm. Thom and Jonny played DJ again, spinning some of their favorite tracks from various artists. Only one new Radiohead song was performed live. The title is still a bit sketchy but it contains the words “Wicked Child”, so we’ll just call it that for now.

Here’s a tracklist of the songs Jonny and Thom played:

THOM
Schizm – Track #2 Mix
Squarepusher
Christian Vogel – Mosquito 10
This Is Mike Ink – Polka Trax 4
Christoph De Babalon – On The Block (Meet Him)

JONNY
Country Preacher – Cannonball Adderly
Telephone Thing – The Fall
The Ink Spots – Java Jive
It’s Not Love – Talking Heads

THOM
Le Tigre – Hot Topic
Magazine – The Light Pours Out Of Me
Ad Vans vs. Gescom – Viral
Andrea Parker – Unconnected
Wevie Stonder – Questionable ( how ironic!)
Autechre – Various Artists 8.5 (fat cat)
Talking Heads – Cross Eyed and Painless

JONNY
La Fille Du Pere Noel – Jacques Dutronc
St James Infirmary – Louis Armstrong
Lulu Suite – Berg
Pahu Tahiti – Tearapo
? – 13th Floor Elevators
Laser Attack – Scientist
Where Is My Mind – Pixies

THOM
Alder & Elins – Digital Toddler
Autechre – 777
Justin Berkon – The Juice
Autechre – Rae
Can – ?
Funkstorung rmx of Wu Tang Clan
Faust – Skinhead
Autechre – tortoise rmx

JONNY
Down By The River – Neil Young
Faust Tapes – Faust
Limbo – Nina and Frederick
Prayer Metin – -Jimmy Smith
Groovin’ with – The Soulful Strings
Jazz Raga – Gabor Szabo
So Lonely – Tim bricky

THOM
Squarepusher/ Aphex Twin – FHM Acid
Gescom – Keynell
Can – Moonshake