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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 19, 2000

Recording is Finished!

Go to the bottom of Thom’s page on the official website and you’ll see:
“yesterday we finished recording. i am free and happy and now im going for a walk in the park goodbye.”
The album will now be mixed together and will probably still be released around September or October 2000. There is NO official release date so anything is possible.

Greece Tickets On Sale
You can apparently purchase tickets for the Greece shows now, even though no official sale date was announced by the band. The two Athens dates (June 26 and 27) went on sale yesterday. There is no way to purchase tickets on the internet so you’ll have to do it the old fashioned way: Go to the Ticket House at 42 Panepistimiou Ave in the center of Athens. Call (0030-1-)3608634 or (0030-1-)3608366 for information. There is no information about the June 25 show in Thessaloniki.
(thanks to Rania)

Here’s the press release about a new Radiohead book being released next month:
EXIT MUSIC: THE RADIOHEAD STORY
BY MAC RANDALL
Publication date: May 11th 2000
Price: £10.95
from the introduction:

ìIn my capacity as senior editor at Musician magazine, I did what I could to gain the band more recognition, interviewing various members in late ’95 and early ’96. And I was privileged to be one of two American journalists attending the festivities that accompanied the European release of their 1997 album OK Computer in Barcelona, Spain…Finally, in June 1999, I traveled to Oxford to see for myself where the band had got its start…î
Mac Randall has interviewed all the members of Radiohead. Although one of the worldís most famous bands, they are notoriously private and very few journalists have got as close to them as Randall has over the years.
Exit Music: The Radiohead Story is an attempt to explore the band and their unique musical expression, and Randall charts this progress from Pablo Honey and their alienation from the British music media as they made it huge on campus circuits across the USA following the overseas success of Creep, through to their current position as media darlings reappropriated by their native culture.

Mac Randall is the East Coast editor of LAUNCH.

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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 21, 2000

At Last!

The band posted up confirmed tour dates for this summer on their official website, including the two Berlin dates reported earlier here. The dates are:

June 13, 2000 – Theatre Antique d’Arles, Arles, France
June 14, 2000 – Theatre Antique de Vaison, Vaison La Romaine, France
June 15, 2000 – Teatro Tivoli, Barcelona, Spain
June 17, 2000 – Arenes de Frejus, Frejus, France
June 18, 2000 – Villa Reale, Milan, Italy
June 19, 2000 – Villa Reale, Milan, Italy
June 21, 2000 – Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
June 22, 2000 – Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
June 25, 2000 – Earth Theatre, Thessaloniki, Greece
June 26, 2000 – Lycabetus Theatre, Athens, Greece
June 27, 2000 – Lycabetus Theatre, Athens, Greece
June 30, 2000 – Le Grand Rex, Paris, France
July 01, 2000 – Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
July 03, 2000 – SFB Sendesall, Berlin, Germany (on sale now!*)
July 04, 2000 – SFB Sendesall, Berlin, Germany (on sale now!*)
July 07, 2000 – Cinerama, Tel Aviv, Israel
July 08, 2000 – Cinerama, Tel Aviv, Israel
July 09, 2000 – Old Roman Amphitheatre, Caesaria, Israel

None of the tour dates listed above are on sale yet, except for the two Berlin dates. Tickets can be bought on the internet for those two dates at:

www.eventim.de
www.icf.de/koka36
You can also order by phone at 30-61401011
Check the official site often for notification of when the rest of the tickets will go on sale.

What About Me?
Radiohead will tour the UK around the release of their new album, sometime in September. Be on the lookout for dates to pop up soon.

Radiohead will tour the rest of the world, including North America and Australia, sometime at the end of 2000/early 2001.

New Album Information
Ed’s diary has been updated with some encouraging news about the new album. Go and check it!

Slowlydownward.com
The often mysterious, always influential Stanley Donwood has launched his own website at www.slowlydownward.com. Stanley is Radiohead’s resident artist who designs neat little things like their website and album covers. Go take a look!

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News for March 17, 2000

More Radiohead Dates?

Please take into consideration that this is all unconfirmed by Radiohead and their management.

You can apparently order tickets for two Radiohead shows in Berlin on July 3 and 4, 2000, by going to eventim.de (just type in “Radiohead” at the search engine at the top).Nothing has been announced officially. Be on the lookout for more European dates to pop up over the next few weeks. (thanks to Jan)

In other tour news, an unconfirmed source is claiming that Radiohead will be taking part in the Roskilde Festival, June 29 – July 2, 2000, in Denmark. We are still waiting confirmation so don’t go all crazy yet!

Radiohead Mentioned in Chats
Radiohead was mentioned in two chats earlier this week with David Gilmour and Roger Waters, both used to be in Pink Floyd. Here’s the excerpts:

MSNLive: People have compared Pink Floyd to Radiohead and Bush and Manson and others – are there any bands that you think carry on your tradition?
David Gilmour: I think some of those bands are creating their own tradition. I think Radiohead are great but I don’t think they need us, for their own path.
MSN Live
“Roy Harper” whispers to MSNLive: How do you feel about the comparisons Radiohead draw with Pink Floyd? also: “MR Jones” whispers to MSNLive: Radiohead has been compared frequently to Pink Floyd. What do you think of their music?
Mr. Roger Waters: I don’t know Radiohead’s work because I don’t listen that much to other people but people tell me they are a great band.

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News for March 13, 2000

Did You Get Your Tickets?

Don’t worry, you’re not alone if you didn’t. Radiohead’s only announced show this year at the Royal Festival Hall in London sold out in less than 30 minutes! A spokesman of the venue told NME: “This is totally unprecedented for us, although not unexpected. All of our 40 phone lines have been jammed all morning and we have one of the biggest box offices in London. There is still a huge amount of traffic on our website, but people are just getting turned away!”

The concert in set for July 1, 2000, and as reported earlier is part of Scott Walker’s Meltdown 2000 Festival.
If you did not get a ticket and are a member of W.A.S.T.E., don’t fret… W.A.S.T.E. has reserved 500 tickets for it’s members to purchase. Here’s some info from W.A.S.T.E.:

w.a.s.t.e has 500 tickets to sell to members at £20.00 per ticket
To join w.a.s.t.e click this link (if you are not already a member) http:www.waste.uk.com
Please send by post, your full name, address, postcode, day-time telephone number and e-mail address (where possible) and indicate whether you would like to buy one or two tickets.
Pop that information into an envelope and send to:

Meltdown @ W.A.S.T.E.
PO BOX 322
Oxford
OX4 1EY
UK

The closing date for this is April 24th 2000, when we will pick winners out of a big box. We will contact all winners using various communication methods by the 30th April 2000 and give payment information at that time.

N.B. Please do not send w.a.s.t.e any e-mails for tickets – only postal requests will be accepted. Do not send any payment until contacted by w.a.s.t.e after the 24th April 2000. Please remember to state whether you would like one or two tickets.