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Another extra Lisbon date
>> Sunday 31-03-02

Tickets for a THIRD Lisbon date are now on sale. The july 22nd show is sold out and the one on the 23rd is almost sold out. This website is selling tickets for july 24th! If you're interested go there and click on radiohead and then on "comprar bilhetes", then choose july 24th and follow instructions. [thanks david]

5 Radiohead tracks in Kinky 101
>> Friday 29-03-02

Today, Dutch radio station Kink FM will broadcast the Kinky 101, which is some kind of alternative all time list. Radiohead is listed 5 times (please note that the top position is nr. 0:)). Here's the top 3:

0 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
1 Radiohead - Paranoid Android
2 Pearl Jam - Black

And Radiohead is listed 4 more times:
6 Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
14 Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
24 Radiohead - Karma Police
28 7 Radiohead - Creep

Sponsor Phil Selway
>> Thursday 28-03-02

Before we start work on the next Radiohead album, I will foolishly be running in the London Marathon 2002, on Sunday 14th April. I am writing to ask if you would kindly sponsor me for this event, and help me raise much-needed funds for The Samaritans. The Samaritans are a UK-based charity who offer twenty-four-hour availability and support to people who are going through a period of crisis and who may have suicidal feelings. They are part of a worldwide organisation called Befrienders International. I'm hoping to run the Marathon in four hours. In those four hours, The Samaritans will take around 2,200 calls from people who are in need of emotional support. The Samaritans will listen to them, giving them the time and space to say how they are really feeling. I'm aiming to raise £4,500, but hoping that the total will be much higher. All sponsors will be entered into a draw to win the drumkit which I used on various tracks on OK Computer, including Exit Music and Paranoid Android. The kit is a five-piece cherry-red Premier XPK, complete with cymbal stands and a bass-drum pedal. The ride and crash cymbals and hi-hats are made by Zildjian, and were also used in the OK Computer sessions. To make a donation please use the link below where you can choose the amount to sponsor me.

waste.uk.com/SponsorPhil

Please be sure to give us your full name to add to a visitors book. We will then use this to pick the drumkit winner. Thank you for your time and support. With blisters on my feet, Philip

Radiohead World Tour Will Happen
>> Thursday 28-03-02

Radiohead will be embarking on a world tour and plan to showcase and record a new album en route. A source close to the band revealed to Xfm that they intend to undertake a full world tour in addition to the eight European dates. The band will be previewing a large amount of previously unheard songs on an as-yet-to be announced world tour. Apparently the band will be using the concerts as an opportunity to try out these songs in a live environment, and each night of the tour will be recorded so various aspects of the songs can be used when piecing together the new album. This is a recording technique they also employed while composing OK Computer, where the band took their mobile studio to demo new songs during an American tour. [from xfm]

Two extra dates in Portugal
>> Tuesday 26-03-02

There will be two extra dates in Portugal. One in Lisbon on the July 23 and an extra show in Porto on July 27. Tickets are on sale now at tickets.waste.uk.com. Check the live section for more info. [thanks lit0s]

w.a.s.t.e. tickets sold out
>> Monday 25-03-02

The tickets for the shows in Portugal in Spain that were available through w.a.s.t.e. are now sold out. You can still purchase tickets through the regular ticket outlets in Spain and Portugal. Tickets for the Spanish shows can be found here. [thanks aurelien & david] Please note that the gig for July 21st is now moved to July 22!! Check the live section for more info.

Stanley Donwood updated his site again. This time with a new frontpage and three new stories. [thanks hugo]

Noel Gallagher feels the internet is taking the magic out of music. Noel said the mystery that used to surround bands when he was a kid had been taken away by the wealth of information and insight offered by the internet. “Fast forward to today and there’s a web cam in the Radiohead studio while they’re recording their album. And they write a diary," Noel pointed out. “There’s too much information going on here… I don’t want to know how you make your records and I don’t want you to know how I make my records. I don’t want you to see me in the studio looking like an arse, having just got out of bed! "The more information you give people, the more the magic goes out of the music,” Noel continued. “Webcams in studios I find appalling. Ours would be quite interesting as it goes, you’d just see a load of people sitting around drinking.” [from mtv, thanks william]

The following dates have now been announced by WASTE and or on sale starting today at tickets.waste.uk.com. These shows will be small, intimate affairs, featuring a great deal of new material.

21st July '02 Lisbon, Portugal
Coliseum, Rua Portas, Santo Antão, 96 - 1100 Lisbon

30th July '02 San Sebastian, Spain
Teatro Kursal, Avda. de Zurriola 1. 20002 Donostia-San Sebastián

5thAugust '02 Salamanca, Spain
Palacio Congresos, Cuesta Deoviedo s/n Salamanca, 37003

6thAugust '02 Salamanca, Spain
Palacio Congresos, Cuesta Deoviedo s/n Salamanca, 37003

7thAugust '02 Salamanca, Spain
Palacio Congresos, Cuesta Deoviedo s/n Salamanca, 37003

Radiohead will play two shows in Salamanca, Spain on August 5th & 6th at "El palacio de congresos". Both concerts will begin at 22:30 hrs. and the tickets will be around €29 and €30. [thanks Rubén]

Old news, but worth a read. Check out this article from Pitchfork: "Radiohead Hard at Work on Sixth Album". [thanks Matthew]

You can vote for Thom at PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian Alive. OK Computer was voted the #1 album at "Platekompaniet". The Bends reached #23 and Kid A 85th place. Here's the full list.
[thanks Marla]

'According today's issue of the brazilian newspapper "O Estado de São Paulo", Radiohead will be playing Brazil in july on a project called "Kaiser Music". Radiohead's performance in Brazil is 90% certain", says marketing director of the event, Julio Pedro, He adds "The crucial factor for their presence is the voting of the fans at our website. It is up to them". The voting will start soon. Until the end of the year, 8 major bands will be playing at Brazil in this festival.The 16 bands list includes: Radiohead,u2, Pearl jam, Stone Temple Pilots,Lenny Kravitz, Aerosmith, Oasis and others. [thanks Carlos]

Bands Tuned to Frequency of Radiohead' is the title of a NY Times article about bands [South & Elbow] that 'share a Radiohead hangover'. Read it in full here. [thanks Marla]

You can check out Thom Yorke on the cover of the Mexican 'La Mosca', which named Radiohead as band of the year. Read the story on their site here. [thanks Marla]

DJ Shadow had some words to say on the prospect of working with Radiohead in the future. "Of Radiohead, he said: "That would be amazing if they did ask me to work on something. They routinely ask me to tour with them, but the timing always seems to be wrong [DJ Shadow toured with the band in 1997]. Hopefully they haven't given up on me yet because I'd really like to do something with them. I'm an unequivocal fan of that group." [from NME, thanks Denise]

Radiohead and Ewan McGregor are taking part in an advert for the anti-poverty charity War On Want. The advert will be launched today as part of the charity's Tobin Tax Day. The charity wants a tax introduced on currency speculation. War On Want claims currency speculation by Western speculators destabilises the economies of developing countries. The charity is asking for a tax of a fraction of one per cent to calm currency markets and raise funds for development. The advert is expected to be shown in an edited form in cinemas nationwide, with the original version streamed on the charity's website, waronwant.org. [from NME]

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]

i've just returned from my holiday.. so, here's a message to let you know that the news will be updated tomorrow [sunday]. and for all those people who sent an e-mail about t-shirts or the message board, i will get back to you soon. and thanks for all those new mugshots.. i will have the mugshots page updated soon..