Radiohead will not only release their 8th album ‘The King Of Limbs’ on Monday, but also a newspaper and a website; The Universal Sigh.
When Radiohead announced their new album, The King Of Limbs, on February 14, they said it was going to be the first newspaper album. The actual Newspaper album will not arrive till early May, but Radiohead are set to issue a Newspaper on the date of the physical retail release: Monday March 28. In some countries (i.e. The Netherlands), the record will be out on Friday March 25 and in other countries (USA, Canada) on Tuesday March 29.
Fans will be able to acquire a newspaper made by the band. The newspaper will be distributed in many capital cities (and several other locations) around the world. Radiohead have produced a newspaper which will be given away, free, gratis, without cost to the consumer by accredited vendors from a multitude of locations WORLDWIDE!
In the USA, in the Netherlands, in Belgium, Poland, Germany, Austria, in the Czech Republic, in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Ireland, France, Italy, Slovakia, Finland, Greece, Norway, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Australia, Latvia, Iceland, Romania, New Zealand, the UK and a load of other places around the globe, our dedicated teams of newspaper delivery people will be handing out copies of THE UNIVERSAL SIGH to anyone who wants one, until we run out!
In conjunction with this unbelievable offer, Radiohead have established THE UNIVERSAL SIGH as a website on the internet, where details of your nearest vendor can be found, as well as more informations and a photogallery where we will be posting photos and the lucky owners of the gratis tabloid are invited to post pictures of themselves and their friends reading the newspaper in locations diverse and unusual.
The band state that there will be other stuff too, “but we haven’t thought of it yet.” But, just in case you were wondering: This newspaper IS NOT the newspaper that accompanies the Newspaper Album version of The King of Limbs. This event WILL NOT be repeated. This event IS NOT a live performance by Radiohead.
The event will be all around the world as a website will be operational which will host photos of people who have obtained the newspaper, The Universal Sigh, as photos will appear on www.theuniversalsigh.com.
Radiohead will measure the carbon footprint of this project, and to offset the potential ecological impact we will retire the carbon credits used. Carbon Retirement is the most effective method of offsetting, because it is the only way you can be 100% sure that the emission reduction you pay for will take place.
Here are all the locations:
AMSTERDAM Utrechtsestraat 52- 60, 1017 VP Amsterdam
ATHENS 54 Panepistimiou street, Athens, 10678, Greece
AUCKLAND Outside Real Groovy Records, 438 Queen St, Auckland CBD, 1010
BARCELONA Plaza Universidad (08007), Barcelona, Spain
BASEL Media Markt Basel, Güterstr. 115, 4053 Basel, Switzerland
BERLIN Bergmannstrasse / Ecke Mehringdamm, 10961 Berlin, Germany
BOSTON, HARVARD SQUARE 22 Jfk Street Cambridge, MA 02138
BOSTON, NEWBURY STREET Outside Newbury Comics, 332 Newbury Street, Boston 02115
BRATISLAVA Dr. Horak, Medena 19, 81101 Bratislava, Slovakia
BRUSSELS FNAC Brussels, City 2, Nieuwstraat/Rue Neuve, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
BUCHAREST Carturesti, Str. Pictor Arthur Verona 13, Bucharest 010312, Romania
BUDAPEST neon music/musicland, almassy ter 8, 1077 Budapest, Hungary
CHICAGO, UKRAINIAN VILLAGE 1957 West Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60622-5580
CHICAGO, WICKER PARK 26 East Madison st. Chicago, IL 60602
COPENHAGEN University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 76, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
DUBLIN Outside Tower Records, 6-8 Wicklow Street, off Grafton Street, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland
GLASGOW Queen St, Glasgow, G1 2AQ
HAMBURG Schulterblatt / Höhe Flora, 20357 Hamburg, Germany
HELSINKI Stupido Shop, Iso Roobertinkatu 23, 00120 Helsinki, Finland
JAPAN Distribution details coming soon
LAUSANNE FNAC Lausanne, Rue de Genève 6, 1002 Lausanne, Switzerland
LISBON Praça Luís de Camões, 1200-243, Lisboa
LONDON Dray Walk, Truman Brewery, London, E1 6QL
LOS ANGELES, HOLLYWOOD 6400 West Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90028
LOS ANGELES, SILVERLAKE 3700 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026
MADRID Plaza Matute 12, (28012), Madrid, Spain
MANCHESTER Outside Bread and Butter Cafe, Tibs St, Northern Quarter, Manchester
MELBOURNE Polyester Records, 288 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
MILAN Santeria, Via Paladini 8, 20133 Milano, Italy
MINNEAPOLIS, DINKYTOWN 1308 4th Street Southeast Minneapolis, MN 55414
MINNEAPOLIS, UPTOWN 3001 Hennepin Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55408
MONTREAL HMV – 1020 Ste Catherine O, Montreal, QC H3B 2V5
MOSCOW Moscow – 119072, Russia
NEW YORK, SOHO 560 Broadway New York, NY 10012
NEW YORK, TIMES SQUARE 1515 Broadway New York, NY 10036
NEW YORK, UNION SQUARE 4 Union Square South New York, NY 10003
NOVOSIBIRSK Novosibirsk – 630099, Russia
OSLO Platekompaniet, Oslo City, Stenersgate 1, 0050 Oslo, Norway
PARIS Place Georges Pompidou, Junction between Rue Saint Martin and Rue Aubry le Boucher, 75004 Paris
PHILADELPHIA, SOUTH STR AND S. 6TH 538 South Street Philadelphia, PA 19147-2219
PHILADELPHIA, UNIVERSITY CITY 133 South 36th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-3246
PORTLAND, HAWTHORNE 3610 Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard Portland, OR 97214-5144
PORTLAND, MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Portland, OR 97227
PRAGUE Vaclavske namesti 1, 110 00 Praha, Czech Republic
REYKJAVIK Smekkleysa, Laugavegur 35, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
RIGA Nabaklab, Zigfrida Annas Meierovica bulvaris 12, Riga, Latvia LV-1010
SAN FRANCISCO, HAIGHT ST Outside the Amoeba, 1855 Haight Street San Francisco, CA 94117
SAN FRANCISCO, MISSION DISTRICT 3004 16th St # 303 San Francisco, CA 94103-3462
SANTA MONICA 1248 3rd St. Promenade Santa Monica, CA 90401
SEATTLE, BALLARD 5449 Ballard Avenue Northwest Seattle, WA 98107-4052
SEATTLE, CAPITOL HILL 917 East Pine Street Seattle, WA 98122-3843
STOCKHOLM Bengans Skivbutik, Drottninggatan 20, 111 51 Stockholm, Sweden
SYDNEY Redeye Records, 66 King Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
TALLINN Viru Keskus, Viru valjak 4, 11314 Tallinn, ESTONIA
TORONTO Yonge and Dundas Square – NW corner
VANCOUVER HMV – 1160 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6E 1B2, Canada
VIENNA Ende Mariahilferstrasse / Höhe Rahlgasse, 1070 Wien, Austria
VILNIUS Muzikos bomba music shop, Vilniaus str. 22, Vilnius, LT-01402, Lithuania
WARSAW Nowy Swiat 63, 00-042 Warszawa, Poland
WASHINGTON DC, JEFFERSON AND 7TH 784 Jefferson Street SW Washington DC, DC 20011
WASHINGTON DC, UNION STATION Historic Downtown, 830 Jefferson Dr. SW ., DC 20002
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- Official confirmation: Liars support – 2008
- Dead Air Space: Mixing it (!!!) – 2007
- Radiohead to play two dates in Montreal – 2006
- Radiodread nearing completion – 2006
- Jonny on the board – 2005
- OK Computer tops Kinky 101 – 2005
- Exclusive discount on Com Lag EP & MPIE DVD – 2004
- Radiohead essay in Belgian art magazine – 2004
- Radiohead announce LP6 tracklisting & title – 2003
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