Vigo
date changed [30-04-03]
According to Onda
Nada the Radiohead gig in Vigo (Parque
de Castrelos) has been moved to July 26th
(initially set for July 17th). [thanks Sergio]
'Creep' number 6
in best songs of the decade [30-04-03]
Oasis ballad Wonderwall
has been named the best song of the decade
in a poll. The song won top place above
other songs like Radiohead's 'Creep', which
ended up at number 6. The poll was commissioned
by UK radio station Virgin to celebrate
its tenth anniversary. Full list and story:
bbc.com
Tickets for Montreux
on sale now! (and
they're gone already) [30-04-03]
Tickets for the Montreux
Festival are one sale now (with Radiohead
playing on July 5th). Get yours at
ticketcorner.ch. More information on
the festival (and tickets) is available
at the
Montreux site. [thanks Oliver &
Fabian] Update: Tickets
have now sold out.
Thom on Tom [29-04-03]
On June 5th Thom Yorke will
be a guest on BBC
6 Music. He will be on Tom Robinson's
radio show between 19.00 and 21.00.
Beacon Theatre update
[29-04-03]
According to Reuters the
2$Bill show will air June 17. The show at
New York's Beacon Theater is expected to
take place June 6, the day before the band's
appearance at Long Island's Field Day Festival.
Originally thought to be airing on MTV,
the concert will be shown exclusively on
MTV2. The network is also planning live
coverage of the June 7-8 Field Day event,
which will also boast performances by the
Beastie Boys and Beck. [thanks John &
Jennifer]
German tour dates
mystery solved
[29-04-03]
EMI Germany announced the
following German dates on their website:
May 16th (Köln), May 17th (Berlin),
May 19th (Munich). These dates seemed unlikely
for May (although very likely for June),
but it appears EMI's webmaster made an error
and posted the dates for Skin (ex-Skunk
Anansie) in the Radiohead section. [thanks
Adam, Jana, Manu & Petr for keeping
me updated]
HTTT at Kuala Lumpur
markets [29-04-03]
You can buy (an unmastered
copy) of Hail To The Thief on the markets
in Kuala lumpur and probably in the rest
of Asia. A nice cover and some bonus tracks
from amnesiac... Dodgy business;) [Thanks
Henrik]
The
alternative titles for Hail To The
Thief offered by Radiohead are (original
titles on left):
'Hail To The Thief/'The Gloaming'
'2+2=5'/'The
Lukewarm'
Sit Down.Stand Up/'Snakes & Ladders'
'Sail To The Moon'/'Brush the Cobwebs
Out Of The Sky'
'Backdrifts'/'Honeymoon Is Over'
'Go To Sleep/'Little Man Being Erased'
'Where I End And You Begin'/'The Sky
Falling In'
'We Suck Young Blood'/'Your Time Is
Up'
'The Gloaming'/'Softly Open our Mouths
In The Cold'
''There There'/The Boney King of Nowhere'
'I Will'/'No Man's Land'
'A Punch Up At A Wedding'/'No No No
No No No No No'
'Myxamatosis'/'Judge, Jury & Executioner'
'Scatterbrain'/'As Dead As Leaves'
'A Wolf At The Door'/'It Girl. Rag
Doll'
|
'Secret' Hail to
the Thief tracklisting [29-04-03]
The elaborate artwork for
the new Radiohead album is yet again set
to become a collector's item as 'Hail to
the Thief' is revealed in the form of a
road-map.The group, who based the artwork
to last album 'Amnesiac' on an old library
book, have designed and made 'Hail To The
Thief' in the format of a road map and a
number of early copies of the album come
in the form of a real fold out map, as pictured
on the right. The sleeve also gives an alternative
name for each song.
Speaking exclusively to NME.COM, Thom Yorke
explained the thinking behind it. He revealed
that in the political fall-out of the September
11 attacks on the US and subsequent war
in Afghanistan, certain phrases used on
the radio stuck out to him. "I was
listening to lots of Radio 4," he said.
"Whenever I heard words that rang bells
in my head, I'd write them down, until I
head this really long list, which is basically
much of the artwork."
Yorke has also told the BBC that he was
reduced to tears on hearing new single 'There
There' finished for the first time. The
track has had a famously long gestation
period, and at one point was considered
'lost' by band insiders.
"I
blubbed my eyes out," he said. "I
went to LA and Nigel
(Godrich, the band's producer) played me
the mix and it just made me cry, I was in
tears for ages, I just thought it was the
best thing we had ever done. There was something
about it, I loved what he did.
"At one time I thought it was the
song that we were going to lose which I
was really upset about because the melody
stayed with me for about four months without
going away, which is really unusual as it
doesn't take me long to get bored and I
really never got bored of this song."
'There There' is released on May 26. For
an exclusive interview with Radiohead on
their new album, out June 9, see this week's
NME, dated May 3. [from nme.com]
Capitol recruiting
young blood? [28/29-04-03]
This poster on the
right was spotted by Angus Spottiswoode
on Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles. It looks
like the new promotional campaign for Radiohead's
new album 'Hail to the Thief', which includes
the track 'We suck young blood'? Until now
the phone remains unanswered when you call
the number, which translates to: 1 866-tot-hief.
Filter Magazine have confirmed this is indeed
related to the new album promotional campaign
and these posters will go up all around
America.
There are also some Metro Cards floating
around which were handed out at a Flaming
Lips show in New York City. The cards have
some phone numbers on the back as well.
Same story: phone keeps ringing and ringing.
More mysterious stuff: At the Amsterdam
University (Netherlands)
there are some folders
that have been spread around the University.
The folder reads: 'Radiohead Music Video
Information In The Back of the Atrium, sign
up and get more details on the shooting
of the music video', illustrated with the
Radiohead bears. There is no other information
given and it's hard to get any information
on this. Although it's unlikely that a Radiohead
video will be shot at the University, our
correspondent Kasper will be there at 18:00
this Thursday;) [thanks Dane, Douglas, Phil,
Kyle & Kasper]
Radiohead.tv artwork
[28-04-03]
There's some snippets of
new artwork available at www.radiohead.tv
(refreshing the page returns a new part).
In an e-mail sent out last week mentioned
there were videos, fan art, i-blips, tracks
from the album, covers of singles, games,
labyrinth game, etc to be hosted on this
site. One of the features would be "remote
scaring" of your friends by entering
a moblie number to let them hear a demonic
cry: "Hail To The Thief!!!" [thanks
PostScriptum]
Radiohead rumoured
to play Move Festival [28-04-03]
According to Efestivals.co.uk
Radiohead are rumoured to play the Move
Festival at Lancashire County Cricket Club
in Manchester. The festival is being held
from 11 - 13 July. [thanks Andrew]
Second part of the
Radiohead Story online [28-04-03]
The second part of BBC World
Service's documentary 'The Radiohead Story'
is now available online.
In this part the band talk about the upcoming
release 'Hail
to the Thief' and the recordings of
the previous albums.
Hail to the Thief
audio stream [26-04-03]
Capitol put Radiohead's
new single 'There There' online. Have a
listen: 56k
| 100
k [thanks tanner, lauren]
All tracks from the (unmixed) 'Hail to the
thief' made its online appearance at valueradio.ee
[thanks bjorn]
Radiohead to play
Montreux [26-04-03]
Radiohead will play the
Stravinski Auditorium in Montreux, Switzerland
on July 5th. Ticket prices vary from €54,03
to €81,38 and will be on sale through
fnac.com
soon. [thanks bruno & max]
Four Tet to remix
Scatterbrain [26-04-03]
According to
MTV.com Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet)
will remix new album track Scatterbrain.
Four Tet supported Radiohead on their 2002
tour in Spain and Portugal. Four Tet will
do his remix after he finished his North
American tour. [thanks Douglas]
Jonny on Sigur Ros
collaboration [26-04-03]
As reported earlier on ateaseweb.com
Radiohead and Sigur Ros will create new
music for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's
piece "Split Sides," which will
debut Oct. 14 at New York's Brooklyn Academy
of Music (BAM). Radiohead guitarist Jonny
Greenwood reveals to Billboard.com that
on opening night, each group will perform
20 minutes of live music with a twist: the
dancers "won't have heard the music
until they start."
"It is raising lots of interesting
problems about what dance music is,"
Greenwood admits. "We're talking about
the bands crossing from one to the other
or sorting out a structure. It could be
interesting. Maybe we'll all kind of surprise
each other and do the opposite kind of music
that we're known for."
"Split Sides" will also be staged
Oct. 16-18 at BAM, with the dancers performing
to a combination of pre-recorded music and
live musicians attempting to recreate the
Radiohead and Sigur Ros compositions. A
similar arrangement will be utilized when
Cunningham's troupe performs the piece elsewhere.
"Musicians copying what we're doing
sounds bizarre to me," says Greenwood.
"I feel for them! We only just know
what we're doing. I'm sure it will be easy
for them, but it just might be a bit weird."
A BAM spokesperson says Cunningham will
add to the improvisational nature of the
piece by employing two different stages
and two different sets of costumes, allowing
for various future permutations of the performance.
Ticket information is not yet available,
but the Oct. 14 debut will be a fundraiser
of some kind. [from billboard.com,
thanks josh]
Jack Johnson on
Radiohead [26-04-03]
This is from an interview
with Jack Johnson at Launch.com: "I
like Radiohead a lot, they kind of blow
me away, especially after seeing them live
in concert was pretty amazing. Neil Young
stuff like that."
More HTTT reviews
[24-04-03]
Record Collector claim to
have the first review of HTTT (a day earlier
than NME;)): It's in their May issue. SoundsXP
have one online as well. Go and have
a read. [thanks Jake & Keith]
ADF with ED @ Glastonbury?
[24-04-03]
Asian Dub Foundation want
Ed O'brien to join them onstage at this
year's Glastonbury after he guested on their
new album. The guitarist appears on 'Enemy
Of The Enemy', and now ADF have been confirmed
to appear on the Pyramid Stage the same
day Radiohead headline (June 29), the dance-rock
collective's Steve 'Chandrasonic' Chandra
Savale hopes their pal will be happy to
reprise his role in front of thousands.He
said: "I always look forward to Glastonbury,
we haven't done it for about three years."
He added: "I've heard some of the new
album ('Hail To The Thief', out June 9),
I thinks it's really imaginative stuff,
they are really pushing the boundaries,
again." [from
nme.com]
Courtney Love disappointed
by Radiohead [24-04-03]
Courtney Love is in Europe
right now recording her latest album, to
be called America's Sweetheart. This is
from today's Courier-Mail in London: "[Courtney
Love] has been quoted saying she loves Alex
from Blur because he drinks pink champagne,
and that she loves the White Stripes. But
Radiohead have disappointed her - she has
her own theory about Thom Yorke's apparent
misery: "I think that Thom Yorke is
really bitter that Creep came around during
grunge and that we all went OK, Creep,
loser, whatever dude', it kind of rode off,
y'know, it's a good song, but like who cares,
really?" " [thanks Like Your Niece]
Colin: Hail To The
Thief will have digital -high quality- artwork
[23-04-03]
According to Colin Greenwood
'Hail
to the Thief' will include digital high
quality artwork: "You have to see that
it's digital information that you could
use in different ways. So, we'd really like
the idea that we could give people like
really good quality images of the artwork.
So, that they could print out this beautiful
high definition quality posters and stuff
of these amazing paintings Stanley's done
for the album, which should be really cool.
So, we don't mind once the record's released
images and things go up on the internet.
Because you can't stop it. It's important
for people to recognize that there is that
side, the digital side and there's the physical
side to the work, which we've spent a lot
of time and work and money on. I think people
will always want to own that as well as
having things on their hard drive. I think
people will want to own, have an object"
[thanks kristiaan]
The above is an ateaseweb.com exclusive
part from an interview with Colin for Goformusic.be,
which will have the entire interview online
in June.
Dutch shows rumoured
[23-04-03]
According to VPRO's Sander
Kerkhof Radiohead are rumoured to play some
dates in the Netherlands this year.
Jonny: 'Leaked version
was from the first day of mixing' [23-04-03]
VPRO's
Sander Kerkhof asked Jonny about the leak
of 'Hail to the thief'. Jonny said the album
was on the net "a week after we sent
the final one to EMI. It's very early but
we kind of expected it. In January we would
take CD's home to listen to them once and
then destroy them. It sounds crazy now.
And now it sounds like a good idea. That's
how we were working. but apparently all
that wasn't enough. The Gloaming is a minute
longer on this internet version. We cut
a whole minute out, because we knew it was
a bit long. We wouldn't play it to anybody.
That's why it's weird"
On the difference between the internet version
and the final version Jonny said: "Sometimes
people might not notice much difference.
Some instruments have been taken away and
some have been added. It depends on which
song you choose. On Myxomatosis we took
all the emphasis off the drums and put it
on the out of tune keyboards to make it
more frightening and just change the mood
of the song. The first day of mixing, which
is what you are hearing, was a cd we kind
of went through and we said 'no, no.. that's
no good, that's close, we'll start again
with that one' That's what frustrating."
Hear the full interview online at
3voor12.nl. The interview is just 5
minutes of a 30 minute interview with Jonny
Greenwood to be broadcast in June.
Interview
with Jonny in Les Inrockuptibles [23-04-03]
There is an interview with
Jonny Greenwood in French music magazine
"Les Inrockuptibles today. Jonny talks
about recording Hail to the thief (compared
with kid a and amnesiac), friendship in
the band, the lyrics and songwriting as
a band. Thanks to finallyiamnoone for the
translation which is available on the message
board.
And
in the UK, NME has the first Hail to the
Thief review in their latest issue.
Paperbag Writer
& Where Bluebirds Fly to feature as
B-sides [23-04-03]
Paperbag Writer & Where
Bluebirds Fly will be released on the There
There CD1 and 12" vinyl. Ateaseweb.com
reported the Paperbag Writer release earlier.
Where Bluebirds Fly has been added recently.
At the moment it's unsure what the tracks
on CD/DVD 2 will be.
It seems like some more new songs have been
recorded. Four new songs have been registered
at publisher Warner Chappell: Instrumental,
New York Toy String Furniture, Noir &
Too Eazy. One or two might be available
on There There CD/DVD 2 or as b-sides for
one of the other forthcoming singles.
Promoter on Radiohead
@ Red Rocks [23-04-03]
Here is more confirmation
about the Radiohead Red Rocks date - straight
from the promoter's mouth (Jason Miller
of House of Blues), in an article in the
Rocky Mountain News:
"Admittedly", Miller says, some
of his job is a no-brainer. "When Bruce
Springsteen wants to play an arena at $67.50
a ticket, as he did last year, it's going
to be a quick sellout. When Radiohead calls
and says it wants Red
Rocks, well, no problem.
"I'm locked into a date with Radiohead
without even having a financial deal. They
needed a particular date at Red Rocks, and
we confirmed it," Miller says. "So
now it's up to me to be a righteous partner
and cut whatever deal
they need. They'll sell out the show, so
we'll figure it out." Full
story (which is mainly about Miller,
not Radiohead) [thanks Jeremiah]
First part of the
Radiohead Story online [22-04-03]
The first part of BBC World
Service's documentary 'The Radiohead Story'
is now available online.
In this part the band talk about On A Friday,
getting the EMI record deal, Creep in the
USA, the struggle with recording The Bends
and OK Computer. [thanks Roy & Adam]
Denver Post mentions
Red Rocks gig [21-04-03]
Per the Sunday Edition of
the Denver Post April 20th, 2003, they have
Radiohead in for August 26th which is a
Tuesday playing at Red Rocks. [thanks Julio]
NY TIMES on Hail
To The Thief [20-04-03]
Here's a short review of the new album from
the New York Times:
RADIOHEAD: HAIL TO THE THIEF' (Capitol)
The advance word was that this album was
a return to the rock of the group's 1995
album "The Bends," but once a
band has evolved as far as Radiohead has,
it is impossible to go backward. So while
"Hail," due in June, may be more
song-oriented than recent Radiohead albums,
it incorporates elements of the drive, the
drone, the drift and the dance of all the
group's previous CD's. Exquisitely layered
yet stubbornly minimal, "Hail,"
like much of the band's other work, slowly
opens after multiple listens. [thanks josh]
OOR
feature on HTTT leak [19-04-03]
The latest issue of Dutch magazine 'Oor'
has a two page feature on the leak of 'Hail
to the Thief' (with comments from your friendly
webmaster;))
Beacon Theatre Pt.
134 [19-04-03]
It turns out the ebay ticket auction for
the NY Beacon Theatre show were cancelled
because the date has not been confirmed
yet.: "It is with great regret that
at this time the T.J. Martell Foundation
needs to postpone this auction. The date
of the concert has not been confirmed and
we expect to relaunch this auction in the
coming weeks.We apologize for this inconvenience".
[thanks Piere]
In the meantime Pollstar and Billboard confirm
the date, but it's uncertain which sources
they've used.
There There promo
[19-04-03]
The promo version of 'There There' features
two tracks: An album version and an edited
version. Here's what a it looks like [thanks
Gary]:
Hail To The Thief
artwork revealed [18-04-03]
Here's what we've all been waiting for:
Artwork for Radiohead's new album: "Hail
to the thief'.
Ebay tickets cancelled
[18-04-03]
The Auction
on Ebay for the New York Beacon Theatre
concert has been cancelled. Proceeds of
the acuctioned tickets were supposed to
benefit the TJ Martell Foundation for Leukemia,
Cancer, and AIDS Research. Bidding began
at $300 and was up to $2,275 before it was
cancelled. The auction should've ended on
April 25th. At the moment it's unsure why
it was cancelled. [thanks niko]
Christopher O'Riley
cover songs for download [17-04-03]
Christopher O'Riley who will be releasing
his Radiohead tribute album 'True Love Waits'
soon, has added his versions of 'There There'
and 'Good Morning Mr. Magpie' on his website.
Beacon Theatre gig
confirmation? [16-04-03]
It seems that the Beacon Theatre gig in
New York has been confirmed. Tickets for
the show are up for auction at
Ebay.com. Show is scheduled for Friday
June 6th and will be filmed by MTV to be
broadcast on a later date. [thanks Ben &
Rex]
Fall tour most likely
in November [16-04-03]
NME confirms the rumoured fall tour as reported
on 'at ease' last week. Radiohead are planning
to follow their Glastonbury appearance with
a full UK tour in November. The group will
return to the British Isles after overseas
festival and tour dates to end the year
with a full tour of bigger UK venues in
support of their new album 'Hail To The
Thief', which is released in the UK on June
9.
Although final details are currently unconfirmed,
sources have told NME.COM the shows will
take place in "late autumn time"
and in venues much larger than their May
'club' dates, which are 2,500 capacity in
size.
A source close to the band told NME.COM:
"This tour will be a much bigger affair.
They are looking at huge venues. They wanted
to do the small shows first to warm-up,
but these gigs will give anyone who was
disappointed the first time around the chance
to see them. November is the most likely
month." [full
story, thanks ivan]
Hail to the thief
stolen on December 15th? [16-04-03]
According to Bernard Lenoir who hosts C'est
Lenoir on french radio station France Inter,
the early mixes of the album were stolen
on December 15th when
Nigel Godrich was mixing the album.
Upcoming
releases [16-04-03]
As reported earlier, the new Radiohead album,
'Hail to the thief' will be released as
a regular cd, limited edition and limited
edition double vinyl. According to CDWOW
the limited edition cd will be released
in a rectangular wallet with fold-out map
(Similar to fold-out road map). For those
who want to pre-order the album, CD-Wow
has the best prices.
There There will be out as a CD (1), limited
edition DVD and 12" vinyl. Cover art
for the single has found it's way too as
you can see on the right [thanks Pearly*
& mrkoala]
Still
w.a.s.t.e. tickets available for Nimes show
and New York [16-04-03]
If you want to have tickets for the show
in Nimes on July 14th. Go to
w.a.s.t.e. now as they are still available.
Tickets for the New York festival are also
available now. Get them here.
Tickets for Italian
shows on sale tomorrow [15-04-03]
The tickets for the Italian shows [see below]
will be on sale tomorrow (wednesday) through
w.a.s.t.e.
and ticketone.
Three Italian dates
announced [15-04-03]
Italian ticket site TicketOne has three
tour dates available. As previously announced
on ateaseweb.com Radiohead will play Bergamo,
Firenze (Florence) & Ferrara in July.
Check the tour section
for dates and more info. [thanks goro]
Happy Birthday Ed!
[15-04-03]
Ed O'Brien turned 35 today. Ed's
fanclub handed all your messages over
to Colin and Jonny today. To celebrate Ed's
birthday, the people at
Esprit give a 10% discount on all Radiohead
items.
Oh, and head over to NePasAvaler
for some photos
of the Greenwood brothers in Brussels.
War delays the Radiohead
story [15-04-03]
The Radiohead Story wasn't broadcast by
the BBC Worldservice yesterday. According
to BBC WS this has happened because of the
coverage of the war in Iraq: "We anticipate
that we will return to normal scheduling
next week, when the first programme in the
four-part series The Radiohead Story will
be heard at the normal times for The Music
Feature."
Here are the the broadcast times again:
Monday 0832 GMT, repeated 1332 & 1832
GMT and Tuesday 0032 GMT. The programme
will also be available
on demand for 7 days after first broadcast.
[thanks Marc]
Vote for Radiohead
[15-04-03]
You can vote to see the Radiohead concert
from Paris 2001 on German TV 'Viva Plus'.
Vote at vivaplus.
[thanks Anne-Kathrin]
Glastonbury 'reserve'
tickets snapped up [12-04-03]
The reserve list opened to sell tickets
for the Glastonbury festival seized from
touts has now closed. Michael Eavis had
announced that a list would be started for
people unable to get tickets first time
round. All 112,000 tickets sold out with
23 hours, but hundreds were almost immediately
placed on sale at inflated prices on Ebay.
"Let me explain the situation - we
did make a list because we thought we'd
have about 500 tickets back," Mr Eavis
said. "We still have to retrieve them
and make sure the whole legal thing is all
above board, but we think we've got in the
region of 500 tickets." There will
be no more than that, he insists. "We
won't have any more tickets available. The
ones that we can retrieve have all been
bagged. The list is now closed, I'm afraid."
Radiohead @ Later
[12-04-03]
Mojo magzine reports: New series of Later
with Jools Holland begins 9th May. "Radiohead
are among the confirmed artists for the
new series ..." [thanks Richard]
BBC Documentary
press release [12-04-03]
As reported earlier BBC Worldservice will
broadcast a Radiohead documentary. Here's
the press release from BBC Worldservice:
Pictures
of Thom at anti-war rally [09-04-03]