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Happy New Year!
First of all a Happy New Year to all At Ease readers. 2004 was another great year for ateaseweb.com with millions of visitors. The site was a runner-up at the Digital Music Awards in the Best Fan Site category after winning the prize last year.
Looking back on Radiohead, 2004 was not the busiest year for the band, but certainly not without highlights:
Jonny Greenwood’s classical composition ‘Smear’ was performed by the London Sinfonietta in Leeds and Bruges. Jonny’s score for Bodysong was released on DVD and the album got released in the USA.
Radiohead have won 2 NME awards (Best Video & Best Album). ‘Hail to the Thief’ has won a Grammy Award for Best Production (Nigel Godrich). A range of artists were covering Radiohead songs. From Brad Mehldau, Jamie Cullum to String Quartets, Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung and even Hanson. And don’t forget the classic ‘Rodeohead’.
The band released a collection of b-sides on their Com Lag EP, anticipating their tour through Japan and Australia. Their last Australian gig (Melbourne) had to be cancelled due to Thom Yorke’s voice troubles. Only a few days later, the band ended their lenghty Hail to the Thief tour with their - now almost legendary - Coachella performance in California, USA.
Right after their tour, Jonny Greenwood got hired by BBC Radio to produce modern classical pieces for the BBC concert orchestra. And Ed, Phil & Colin team up with the actor Bill Nighy to perform the saccharine Love is All Around in Oxford for charity. Thom led a ‘No Star Wars’ rally at Fylingdales. A while later Thom appeared in a poster campaign for Oxfam.
In September a remixed version of ‘Go To Sleep’ got released through WarChildMusic.com. And some of Radiohead’s music was finally included on Apple’s iTunes store. The biggest Radiohead release in 2004 was the DVD ‘The most gigantic lying mouth of all time’ a collection of four Radiohead.tv episodes. The most succesfull release is Thom and Jonny’s contribution on the Band Aid 20 single ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’ which ended up at number 1 in the UK charts.
What will 2005 bring us?
Radiohead have said they will be returning to the studio this year. There’s also that rumoured Thom Yorke solo album. And the Field Day Festival organizer wants Radiohead to perform on his 2005 edition of the festival again. We’ll just have to wait and see if anything from the above actually takes place.
A new Radiohead book by Joseph Tate will be release in January, entitled ‘The Music and Art of Radiohead’. Some new work from Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood will see the light, performed by the London Synfonietta at the Ether Festival in March. Phil & Jonny will appear in the new Harry Potter movie as the ‘Wyrd Sisters’.
And for At Ease… the site turns 8 this year. The new ateaseweb.com t-shirts (with an excusive Stanley Donwood design) are in and can be ordered soon. Ateaseweb.com will move to a new server this month to speed things up and serve you better. Let’s hope this will be another great year with lots of new music and great gigs!
Have a great one!
Adriaan
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