Machine Gun Fellatio’s recent US visit involved a flattering offer to open for Radiohead at Madison Square Garden – an offer eventually overruled by Radiohead’s record company – and an unfortunate encounter with a mechanical bull. “The whole Radiohead thing put me in a crazy mood,” says von Loopin Stab. “To be honest, there was quite a lot of alcohol and possibly a lot of rock cocaine involved, too. I was just on a bender and there was this cowboy bar on Sunset Boulevard. “So we go in there and I’m completely off my tits. Invincible. I’m feeling 100 feet tall. So I decide to ride the mechanical bull. I didn’t know at the time, but I’d chipped the top off my collar bone and there were all these fragments sticking straight into my muscle.” [from smh.com.au]
Radiohead news on this day..
- Out now: Radiohead’s The Daily Mail & Staircase [audio] – 2011
- Fred Armisen does Thom Yorke at Saturday Night Live – 2011
- Rolling Stone: Thom Yorke Eco-friendliest Rocker – 2010
- Kraftwerk to support Radiohead in Latin America – 2008
- How Radiohead (fans) can reduce CO2 emissions – 2007
- Byrne and Yorke on the Real Value of Music – 2007
- More ‘end-of-the-year’ lists – 2003
- ‘There There’ in Pitchfork’s singles list – 2003
- Webcast with two brand new tracks! – 2002
