Cathing up: The News

Posted on March 10th, 2002.

Radiohead will begin recording the follow-up to ‘Amnesiac’ next month. Colin Greenwood revealed that work will begin on new music in just a matter of weeks. He commented: “We’re going to start work again in April. We’re going to give it a bit more of a break than the last time.” Ed O’Brien added: “We don’t know what it will be like yet. You get asked this question before you make a record and we just don’t know. So many times you say it’s going to be the three minute pop song record, and other times you say it’s the prog rock record and it never turns out that way. We’ll just get back into rehearsal and then back into the studio and we’ll see what happens.” Greenwood told NME.COM: “We’re planning to play some shows in Europe in the summer and we’ll take it from there.” [from NME, thanks Adam]

In short: You can download the MP3 of Thom and Beck performing “I’m Set Free” in LA here. The w.a.s.t.e. shop has some new merchandise. There is an article on Stanley Donwood and some artwork in the new Bristol (UK) magazine Decode, out March 7. Have a look at a clip of Thom from 1994 when Radiohead won Best Single for Creep at the NME awards. [thanks to Marla for all these bits]

Back in march 1992, a certain band called On A Friday signed a record deal with EMI Records, changing their band name into ‘Radiohead’. The rest? Well, the rest is history. Not sure about the exact date, but anyway: … Happy 10 Years Anniversary Radiohead!! [thanks to Marc for the reminder:)]

There’s a brief Radiohead mention in an interview with David Holmes, a Northern Irish DJ.
“A lot of people in the industry don’t have to balls to take chances. Radiohead was the prime example of a band who just did exactly what they wanted. They didn’t care about success, they just took this massive risk and said – this is who we are, this is the music we believe in” [thanks William]

This appeared in an article in Newsweek about the downfall of the music industry, Moby said this: “As much as I love Radiohead, I wish they had a couple of hit singles on their last album so I could hear them on the radio instead of O-Town.” [thanks Scott]

..and Moby mentioned Radiohead’s ‘Knives Out’ as one of his favourite songs. Here’s more. [thanks Šime]

The BBC are using radiohead’s “everything its the right place” as the advertising campaign music in the forth coming series named “trenches”. It is a television drama/history show on the first world war. It is being screened on BBC 2 this month. [thanks Ryan]

Radiohead #2 on Spin’s Top 40: “Radiohead are, for the moment, what great rock bands should be- weird, arrogant, earnest, and beautiful.” Thom quote: “We’re at a time when we are being presented with undeniable global changes and we’re listening to the most hokey shit on the radio and watching various bullshit celebrities…which is fine, you know, but I can’t do that.” [thanks Chance]

There’s an article from the Chicago Tribune about Music downloads on the internet with Ed interviewed: “I download MP3s myself,” says Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien. “I’d be a hypocrite if I were against it. It does our music a lot of good, because in many ways it takes a while for people to get used to our music. People who are into a band, they’ll download the music, but they also want a copy of the album. I’d be worried if we were a straight-ahead pop band, where you hear a song 10 times, and you don’t really want to hear it again. But I’ve got confidence in our music, that there is enough depth and breadth there to survive `Napstering.’” Read it in full here. [thanks Carl]

In Q Magazine this month there was a feature on the Pulk/LSP video plus images from the video, which appears to be mainly computerised. It says it is ‘unlikely to be shown on TV because of it’s “difficult” subject matter, although it may appear in the future as a DVD. It was directed by Johnny Hardstaff, and took 4 months to complete, and features conjoined twins inside a giant centrifuge. The film came about after last year when Radiohead asked Hardstaff to take any of the songs off Amnesiac to make a film for, and he was touched by the fragility in Thom’s lyrics for the songs. [thanks Sam]