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WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN DEMO RELEASE
[30-06-03]
The demo version of 'Where I end and you
begin' will be released on an Oxfam
compilation cd in September. The CD will
also include tracks by Coldplay, R.E.M.,
Chemical Brothers and Damon Albarn.
THOM YORKE, THE SEXIEST VEGETARIAN?
[29-06-03]
Cast your vote today for the "Sexiest
Vegetarians Alive" [thanks Braden]
RADIOHEAD AT GLASTONBURY
[29-06-03]
Radiohead played the Glastonbury Festival
last night. The setlist is available in
the gigography.
FLAMING LIPS VS. RADIOHEAD: KNIVES
OUT [28-06-03]
Tonight at Glastonbury, The Flaming Lips
are playing before Radiohead, and Wayne
from the Lips is hoping he can hang out
with Thom and the rest of the guys: "I'm
hoping I get to go backstage and at least
talk to Radiohead, 'cause we do a cover
of 'Knives Out' once in a while. So if we
did 'Knives Out' that night, they didn't
think we were making fun of them, or something
like that."
RADIOHEAD IN BANG MAGAZINE
[27-06-03]
Radiohead are on the cover of this month's
BANG
magazine. There are Q&As with Thom
and Jonny inside, plus a feature on the
tour and a Stanley Donwood interview. Also,
there are free art cards (2 different sets)
and one is for Radiohead's Mitchell Pavillion
show. Thom Yorke: “I’ve never
taken acid… I have often wondered
what it would be like to really get out
there”
ROCK WERCHTER ON 3FM [27-06-03]
This Saturday en Sunday Dutch Radio station
3FM will broadcast recordings of the Rock
Werchter Festival, including Radiohead.
Rock Werchter on 3FM:
Saturday: 20.00 - 01.00 hrs
Sunday: 15.00 - 01.00 hrs
For are (dutch) review of the first night,
check out 3voor12.nl
& Cutting
Edge for another review with pictures
of last night's show. A french review from
La Libre is here.
[thanks Luc] Some dutch newspapers have
rave reviews as well, including Algemeen
Dagblad & De Volkskrant.
REMINDER: AUBURN/SEATTLE TICKETS
[27-06-03]
Tickets for Radiohead's show at the White
River Amphitheatre go on sale tomorrow (saturday),
10:00 am @ all Ticketmaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.com
or charge by phone 206/628-0888 or venue
box office (Saturdays from 10am - 2pm only).
Prices: General Admission : $ 39.50, Pit
- General Admission: $ 46.50, Reserved:
$ 46.50.
UPDATE: At the
moment, W.a.s.t.e.
have another batch of tickets available.
[thanks Eleven11]
DETAILS ON RADIOHEAD/SIGUR ROS
BALLET [27-06-03]
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation opening
night Benefit featuring music by Radiohead
& Sigur Rós, performing live
Oct 14 at 8pm
Tickets: $55, 80, 100*
*Note: $100 tickets are reserved for gala
dinner attendees. For more info, call Cunningham
Dance Foundation at 212.255.8240. A limited
number of $55 and $80 seats are available
for subscription purchase (tickets are non-exchangeable
and other restrictions apply).
More info: Bam.org
[thanks Peter & Mark]
REVIEWS [27-06-03]
The Waterloo
Cedar Falls Courier has a Hail to the
Thief review ("buy 1995's "The
Bends" instead of falling to the "Thief.").
Channel4000.com
& Stuff.co.nz
review Hail To The THief as well. The Vally
Advocate review Christopher O'Riley's
'True Love Waits'
ED ON TRADE JUSTICE MOVEMENT
[27-06-03]
In Metro (free London newspaper) Ed O'Brien
was interviewed:
"Radiohead's involvement with the Trade
Justice Movement came out of the awareness
raised by the Jubilee 2000 campaign which
highlighted the crippling burden of debt
faced by the developing world.
Following on from that campaign, NGOs such
as Christian Aid, Oxfam and CAFOD were telling
us that, although aid and debt relief were
essential, if we were to be truly effective
in wiping it out in the long term, then
the issue of trade and the illogical, grossly
immoral rules that govern it had to be challenged.
This is where the Trade Justice Movement
has come in.
I like the fact that the Trade Justice Movement
is a coalition. It reflects the way this
campaign is supported by a great many people
in this country who realise that, in an
increasingly interdependent and globalised
world, we in the richest countries have
a responsibility to the world's poorest.
This is not merely a responsibility based
on compassionate grounds. There are now,
more so than ever, pragmatic reasons. Poverty
and inequality are the greatest human threat
to the well-being and security of all human
beings on our planet. The Trade Justice
Movement seeks to redress the balance."
[thanks Rob]
MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC
[27-06-03]
Thom and Jonny's set at New Yorks' Electric
Lady Studios is now available for download
at KCRW. The session is featured in
a one hour special of 'Morning Becomes Eclectic,
together with a full band interview it includes
the following tracks:
01 i might be wrong
02 a punch-up at a wedding
03 i will
04 sail to the moon
05 no surprises
06 go to sleep
07 karma police
08 everything in its right place
09 fake plastic trees
10 there there
[thanks lazarus, a child ill, nancy]
RADIOHEAD AT ROCK WERCHTER
[26-06-03]
Radiohead played the Rock Werchter Festival
last night. The setlist is available in
the gigography
HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLIN AT ROCK WERCHTER
[26-06-03]
Colin Greenwood turned 34 today. Colin can
celebrate at the Belgian Rock Werchter Festival,
where Radiohead will play from 23:40 - 01:25
hrs. Their performance will be webcast.
More info on the festival available at the
Rock
Werchter site.
HTTT REVIEW [25-06-03]
Radiohead received album of the week for
HTTT at ripitup.com.au
under the rhythm section category. [thanks
Scott]
GLASTONBURY 2003 BROADCAST
[25-06-03]
BBC2 report from the 2003
Glastonbury Festival. Kicking off the
programme will be live coverage of the Pyramid
Stage headliners, Radiohead at 11:10 pm
on Saturday June 28th [thanks Joeri]
JAPANESE SPECIAL EDITION [25-06-03]
The special edtion of Hail To The Thief
will be re-issued
on July 24th in conjunction with their concert
at "Summer Sonic" in Japan on
August 2 & 3, 2003 limited to 10,000
copies. [thanks Alex]
RADIOHEAD ON DIRECTV FROM
JULY 4 [25-06-03]
In the USA, Radiohead: Live in Concert (taped)
will be starting Friday, July 4. The concert
will play all day as a free view every Friday,
Saturday and Sunday in July on channel 103.
It looks like this is the Beacon Theatre
concert, previously broadcast by MTV. [thanks
Sean]
HAIL TO THE THIEF IN 50 WORDS [25-06-03]
Tangmonkey.com
has a feature today of 50 word reviews of
HTTT. [thanks Kevin]
Here's proof that Radiohead is not the
only thing in Christopher O'Riley's life.
There's more press. Like the Dutch 'Nieuwe
Revu' have an interview with Ed & Jonny.
Swedish musicmagazine Musiklandet have a
review of Radiohead's performance at the
Hultsfred
Festival and a review
of the new album. They also have a deeper
look into Radioheads unreleased
material.
ENTER THE LOOPHOLE
[24-06-03]
Are you good at making noise? You like a
challenge? Well you might like to have a
go at this.
You see, we want you to write a track for
us, based around the Radiohead audio loops
provided on this site.
Make an audio track, send it to us, and
then every month, we will put up a new selection
of what we receive up here, on the other
end of a prominent and attention-whoring
link from radiohead.com and absolutely free
for the world to download. You, my friend,
could become a minor celebrity.
Enter The
Loophole
HURRICANE SETLIST
[24-06-03]
Some delay, but the Hurricane Festival Setlist
is available in the gigography
[thanks mpie.de]
JONNY ON 101XFM SHOW
[23-06-03]
Jonny Greenwood was on the phone at the
Mauler
& Rush show on Canada's 101XFM.
You can download
the interview.. More of Jonny as Bodysong
is on the list of documentaries at the the
Czech Republic's famed Karlovy Vary International
Film Festival to run July 4-12. Another
interview with Christopher O'Riley is available
at NY
Daily News [thanks Lawrence & Jamie]
HTTT REVIEWS [22-06-03]
There are two takes on Radiohead's Hail
to the Thief and a review of Radiohead's
performance at the Field Day festival at
Atrocity
Exhibition. More reviews at HUGO,
No
Ripcord and Drownedinsound
[thanks Martin]
MORE MTV AIRINGS
[22-06-03]
MTV is airing 2 Bill Show Concert once again
Monday - June 23, 2003 Time: 12:00 am -
01:00 am ET
MTV2 will be airing the Radiohead Videography
and the 2 Bill Show at 06/23/03 02:30 am
ET MTV2 Radiohead Videography
06/23/03 03:00 am ET MTV2 Radiohead 2 Bill
Show [thanks Daniel]
JONNY GREENWOOD INTERVIEW
[22-06-03]
There's a small interview with Jonny Greenwood
at Nuvo
Magazine [thanks Candace]
THOM & JONNY ACOUSTIC SET TO
BE BROADCAST [21-06-03]
An exclusive full band interview with Radiohead
plus an acoustic set of songs with Thom
Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on Morning Becomes
Eclectic at 11am, will air Thursday, June
26, 2003 on KCRW.
[thanks John (!) & Erik]
ANOTHER BATCH OF WASTE TICKETS ON
SALE NOW!!! [21-06-03]
Hurry up: http://bigtickets.waste.uk.com
SATURDAY REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS [21-06-03]
The
Louisville Scene have reviewed Radiohead's
Hail To The Thief. MTV
have another Radiohead feature including
a Thom Yorke interview and 'There there'
& '2+2=5' from the Beacon Theatre show.
On NPRs online music show All
Songs Considered - Christopher O'Riley
True Love Waits is featured. [thanks Shawn
& Sumeet]
NORTH AMERICAN TICKETS ON SALE [21-06-03]
Tickets for the North American Tour are
on sale at W.A.S.T.E
now. Hurry up and get them for Boston, Montreal,
Toronto, Philadelphia (Camden),
Columbia, Cleveland, East
Troy, Vancouver, Seattle,
St. Louis, Denver and Salt
Lake City.
* Crossed out dates are sold out.
Tickets for most of those show are now available
at Ticketmaster.com
& Ticketmaster.ca.
Check the live section
for more information and outlets.
Already, SelectATicket.com
have a lot of Radiohead tickets for sale
with rediculous prices. Same goes for Ebay.
Beware if you decide to buy them as they
may get pulled out of auction.
RADIOHEAD AT SOUTHSIDE FESTIVAL
[20-06-03]
Radiohead played at the Southside Festival
in Germany, available through audio and
video webcast.
The setlist is available in the gigography.
FRIDAY REVIEWS, ETC [20-06-03]
People Magazine review Hail To The Thief
as well as Dutch Veronica Magazine. The
Indiana
Statesman did the same. MuchMusic confirmed
that the "7 Television Commercials"
DVD will in fact be released on August 5th,
and apparently only in Canada. SignOnSanDiego.com
have an interview with Christopher O'Riley
[thanks Henk, Blake & Matt]
WERCHTER WEBCAST [20-06-03]
The entire Werchter festival will broadcast
live on the
Werchter website during 4 days. You
can watch Radiohead on June 26 at 23:40
(local time). [thanks Caspar]
CHARTS: CANADA & AUSTRALIA [20-06-03]
Hail to the Thief entered the Canadian chart
at number 1. The record has gone gold with
a number two entry in the Australian charts.
Number one is St Anger by Metallica. [thanks
anna & sanjay]
THURSDAY REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
[19-06-03]
Slap Skateboard Magazine have a Hail to
The Thief review. The Chicago
Tribune reviewed Christopher O'Riley's
True Love Waits. MTV
Latin America have a story on Radiohead
members that are on election posters in
Mexico. Colin explained the album title
once again at Launch.
Launch also reports
about that dance performance (once again).
[thanks paulina & ed]
GLASTONBURY NEWS [18-06-03]
Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis says
he had to turn down an offer from Sir Paul
McCartney to headline the festival. He had
to refuse as the line-up, with Radiohead
in the headline slot, had already been confirmed.
Michael Eavis said: "We tried to work
it out with Paul - I offered him the headline
on Friday and Sunday but it was Saturday
or nothing. I told him Radiohead were already
booked but it was no good, so I had to say
no to him."
BBC2 aired a Top of the tops 2 glastonbury
special tonight, showing performances from
many of this years glasto bands, including
radioheads 1993 performance of 'creep'.
[thanks thom, scott]
LIVE HURRICANE FESTIVAL BROADCAST
[18-06-03]
German site www.dasding.de
will broadcast a live videostream from the
entire Hurricane festival, including Radiohead
at 23.30 CET. [thanks mpie.de]
US CHART: HAIL TO THE THIEF ENTERS
AT NO. 3 [18-06-03]
The return-to-rock publicity surrounding
Radiohead's Hail to the Thief paid off.
The band's latest sold 300,000 copies at
Number Three, the lowest debut chart position
(but highest selling) of their past three
albums. Kid A hit Number One in 2000 and
Amnesiac jumped in at Number Two a year
later, but the albums sold 207,000 and 231,000
copies in their first week of sales,
respectively. [from Rolling
Stone, thanks Dick]
ALPINE VALLEY, EAST TROY TICKET
INFO [18-06-03]
Here's some ticket information for the Alpine
Valley show, which will go on sale (as well
as for a lot of other Radiohead shows) this
Satuday. Ticket prices, excluding service
fees, are $39.50 for lawn and $45.50 for
general admission in the pavilion, including
a pit area immediately in front of the stage.
Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Saturday at the
Riverside Theatre box office in downtown
Milwaukee and at all Ticketmaster locations,
including online at Ticketmaster.com. To
charge by phone through Ticketmaster, call
(414) 276-4545. Tickets also will be available,
free of service charges, at the Alpine Valley
Music Theatre box office Saturday only.
[From JS
Online, thanks Ty]
WEDNESDAY REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
[18-06-03]
Dutch free daily newspaper Metro have a
Hail To The Thief review as well as Planet.nl,
Arbiter
and Salon.com.
Malaysian newspaper, The Star, have a story
and interview with Jonny Greenwood. Finnish
magazine Rumba had a review, which is now
available (translated in english) in the
press archive.
NGZ
in Germany have a review too. [thanks andy,
jonne, ben, rolf, evers]
BEACON THEATRE BROADCASTS [18-06-03]
Anyone who has the DirectTV satellite will
be able to watch their freeview channel
and see a live Radiohead concert, all month
long. (I'm guessing it's the New York one/same
one that MTV taped, although DirectTV usually
shows concerts in their entirety, whereas
MTV often edits a lot out.). MTV now has
a video for the Beacon Theatre performance
of There There in rotation. [thanks Adam,
Brent, Lainey]
HAIL TO THE THIEF ON EMI HEADQUARTERS
IN ATHENS [18-06-03]
The cover of Hail To The Thief inspired
the decoration of the EMI building on Mesogeion
Avenue in Athens, Greece. A huge replica
is outside the office of the record label,
since the end of last week and for three
more weeks.
The painting (dimensions 9.70m x 11m, oil
and acrylics on canvas) was done by Katerina
Vagia. After taken down, the painting will
be cut to smaller pieces which will be sent
to England in order to be signed by members
of Radiohead. They will be put for auction
in autumn with the help of Action Aid, and
the money gathered will be for beneficial
purposes for the Action Aid network. [from
babylon.gr, thanks TV]
HAIL TO THE THIEF STRAIGHT TO NUMBER
1 [17-06-03]
As reported earlier Radiohead scored its
fourth consecutive U.K. No. 1 album as "Hail
to the Thief" (Parlophone) went straight
to the top of the new chart. It survived
a challenge from Annie Lennox's "Bare"
(RCA), which entered at No. 3. Meanwhile,
Evanescence started a second week at No.
1 on the singles survey with "Bring
Me To Life" featuring Paul McCoy (Epic).
The most successful of Radiohead's four
British No. 1 albums is its first, 1997's
"OK Computer," which logged 75
weeks on the survey. The band also hit the
peak with 2000's "Kid A," although
that spent only 15 weeks on the chart, and
2001's "Amnesiac," which had a
mere 12 weeks. [from Billboard,
thanks David]
RADIOHEAD BACK IN PORTUGAL?
[17-06-03]
Radiohead were rumoured to play the Vila
de Mouros Festival in Portugal earlier
this year. Never heard of these rumours
again, but ccording to the festival news
site
festivais.no.sapo.pt, Radiohead are
one of the unconfirmed bands at the Portugese
Vila de Mouros Festival, which runs from
July 17 to July 20 [thanks Daniel]
REVIEWS [17-06-03]
Hail to the Thief reviews: LA
Weekly, Information,
Politiken,
Berlingske
Tidende, Shaking
Through [thanks Peter, David]
CORRECTION: 2$ SHOW TONIGHT [17-06-03]
A correction on yesterday's news: The MTV2
2$show airs tonight at 9PM Eastern (not
PST) in the USA. It will be shown at 6PM
PST. [Thanks Collin]
SECOND LEG OF NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
[16-06-03]
We've had the first leg of the North American
tour a few days ago, here's the second leg
already. These dates will probably have
Supergrass
as a support band.
Tue 09/23/03 Mountain View, CA Shoreline
Amphitheatre
Thu 09/25/03 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
Fri 09/26/03 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
Sun 09/28/03 Chula Vista, CA Coors Amphitheatre
Wed 10/01/03 The Woodlands, TX C.W. Mitchell
Pavilion
Thu 10/02/03 New Orleans, LA UNO Lakefront
Arena
Sat 10/04/03 West Palm Beach, FL Sound Advice
Amphitheatre
Mon 10/06/03 Atlanta, GA HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
[thanks 23 Skiddoo]
NATIONAL POST ON W/C ISSUES
[16-06-03]
Toronto's National Post have story online
on the Warner Chappell problems. Interviewed
are the beloved Mary Bichner and some other
webmaster. Have
a read.
MORE RADIOHEAD MEDIA COVERAGE
[16-06-03]
Ok, where do we start today? Here, Dutch
magazine 'Man' has interview
with Ed O'Brien. Same goes for German weekly
newspaper 'Die
Zeit'. Belgian Magazine HUMO
have a review of the album. MTV2
in the US will broadcast Radiohead's 2 dollar
bill show on Tuesday night the 17th, at
9 PM Pacific time. There's an online
preview as well [Thanks Joost, Andy,
Philip, Daniela]
THE CHARTS [16-06-03]
Hail To The Thief entered the UK chart at
number one, in Finland at number two (after
Metallica's St. Anger). [thanks Mark, Ryan,
Tuomas]
HULTSFRED FESTIVAL [16-06-03]
A bit delayed, but Radiohead played at the
Hultsfred Festival on Friday. A set that
was partially broadcast on Swedish television.
Thom was in a really good mood even though
they had lots of problems with the sound
(at one point Thom got so annoyed by the
feedback from his acoustic that he said
'hello?' into it). My Iron Lung: "Hah!
Now we're gonna play this one!" Kid
A was introduced as "dance music"
in a very posh accent. This version was
much rockier than the 2000 tour version
and hence a lot better. They crossed out
songs for the first encore were Myxomatosis
(they played Just) and Fake plastic trees
(they played Street Spirit). The first half
of Hunting bears was played after the National
Anthem. Karma Police was played last instead
of How To Disappear. I think it was because
Thom was in a crowd pleasing mood. And he
mixed up the words to the third(?) verse
("karma police arrest this... 'mumble'
given it all I can"). Note the new
setlist font. [thanks Tom
& Henrik]
CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY TOUR DATES
[15-06-03]
Are you enjoying Christopher O'Riley's classical
tribute 'True
Love Waits'? Here are some live dates:
16 june: ravinia festival/highland park,
il (outside of chicago) *
8 july: grand tetons festival/jackson hole,wy
10 july: joe's pub/nyc (two shows)
12 july middletown, connecticut (wesleyan
college)
20 july: portland, or
8 august: cabrillo festival/santa cruz,ca
22 august: knitting factory/los angeles,ca
5 september: laramie, wy
17 september: ucal berkeley/berkeley,ca
25 september: st louis,mo
19 october: tacoma, wa
* wfmt/chicago is taping the ravinia show
for delayed broadcast.
MORE REVIEWS [14-06-03]
Dutch newspaper 'Algemeen
Dagblad' have a short review of Hail
To The Thief. Danish newspaper Information
have a lengthy one. OOR (Netherlands) have
a review in their latest issue. [thanks
Heike]
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR CONFIRMED [14-06-03]
Radiohead have just confirmed their
tour dates through the USA and Canada. The
band will play Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Columbia, Cuyahoga Falls, St. Louis, Denver,
Seattle and Salt Lake City in the USA. In
Canada you can see them in Toronto, Montreal
and Vancouver. Full list of dates and info
in the tour section.
For those who think they missed out, there
will most likely be a second leg of the
tour late September.
FRIDAY'S PRESS [14-06-03]
In the Netherlands, Dagblad van het Noordern
& Rotterdams Dagblad have an interview
with Radiohead published. The latter is
available
online. French magazine MAGIC has a
special issue on Radiohead with photos and
interviews. Le Monde published a HTTT review.
UK's The Guardian have review on Christopher
O'Riley's True Love Waits tribute album.
In Germany Plattentests
have a Hail To The Thief review. Metacritic,
BBC
Collective and AMG
have one as well. Billboard
have a Radiohead feature online.
And then something else, on tonight's Dateline
special "Betting on Mary" it had
the beginning melody part of Kid A that
they kept looping periodically.
[thanks Hans, Mylene, Kevin, Rhys, Tom,
Ed, Sean, Aqutiv]
THE LAST RADIOHEAD ALBUM? [14-06-03]
“We deliberately spent a long time
preparing,” he says of recording ‘Hail
To The Thief’, “And we got into
the ideas of performance at the same time
as using a lot of electronics, so all the
computer techniques had to occur there and
then. It’s something we’re getting
very heavily into. So you’d prepare
the computers for all eventualities and
you’d go with them. It’s a very
acoustic record this one, but I’ve
found out that we can do all this loud stuff
with computers which is the direction I
think we’ll take.” It also seems
that Yorke is frustrated with the confines
of the traditional album format, possibly
provoking a move to just releasing EPs in
the future.
“When you’re finishing a record,
you have to confront the idea of what it’s
called, and there’s no getting away
from the fact that people are gonna be reacting
in such a way.” Yorke continued, “I
think next I’d love to just do EPs
‘cos I’ve had enough of this
whole album thing and that sort of level
of pressure and scrutiny and the way that
it works in the music business.”
[from xfm.co.uk]
ACCESS MAGAZINE INTERVIEW + MORE REVIEWS
[13-06-03]
Access
Magazine have an interview
with Phil as well as a review of Hail
to the Thief online. Nude
as the News, The
Daily Mississippian, Blender
& Taz
have reviews online. Release
Magazine have a review and a competition
[thanks killmesarah, Diego, John, Andy]
JOIN IN THE RADIOHEAD THIEF HUNT [13-06-03]
Calling all thieves: Join
the hunt for missing Radiohead words!
Simply click on the shaded out boxes to
be transported to the parallel universe
the missing words have escaped to. Once
you
wrangle a missing word, click on it and
it will be automatically added to your personal
game card.
Collect all the words and you'll be eligible
to win a trip for 2 to see Radiohead in
anywhere in the continental U.S! (Hint:
enter at "ENTER") [The Contest
is open to legal residents of the United
States (excluding residents of Rhode Island)
who are age eighteen (18) years and older]
TORONTO GIG CONFIRMED [13-06-03]
As reported earlier Radiohead were rumoured
to play at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto
on August 16th. This has now been confirmed
by the venue [thanks Tammy, Mitch, Tyler
& Ryan]
RADIOHEAD BACK PUSH FOR TRADE JUSTICE [12-06-03]
Radiohead are backing the Trade Justice
Movement's campaign for fairer rules governing
international trade. The band are supporting
'Scale Up for Trade Justice', a national
action to lobby all the UK's 659 MPs in
their local constituencies over a 24 hour
period on 27-28 June.
Ed O'Brien, Radiohead guitarist, said:
"Our politicians have failed to grasp
what harm this government is doing by pushing
for more and more free trade - without taking
into consideration its effect on poor people
and the environment. We want to make sure
every MP gets a clear message that British
voters want the rules on international trade
rewritten to make world trade work for the
whole world."
"On 27/28th June we are taking our
message to every UK MP in their constituencies.
I would urge anyone who feels strongly about
world poverty to join the Trade Justice
Movement MP lobby marathon."
"Radiohead's involvement with the Trade
Justice Movement really came out of the
awareness raised by the Jubilee 2000 campaign
that highlighted the crippling burden of
debt faced by the developing world. Following
on from that campaign, NGOs such as Christian
Aid, Oxfam and CAFOD were telling us that,
although aid and debt relief were essential
courses of action in alleviating poverty
in the Third World, if we were to be truly
sincere and effective in wiping it out in
the long term then the issue of trade and
the rules that govern it had to be challenged.
This is where the Trade Justice
Movement has come in, highlighting these
illogical and grossly immoral rules of trade,
making it comprehensible to us in the general
public."
Glen Tarman, Trade Justice Movement Coordinator,
said: "The UK Government says it wants
trade to help end world poverty. Yet the
Government is pushing for policies in the
World Trade Organisation that are biased
towards rich countries and the West's corporations.
We want to put the spotlight on our Government's
hypocrisy this summer, in the run-up to
the next big WTO meeting in Mexico in September.
Radiohead are helping us to do this."
Anyone interested in finding out more about
the campaign should go to the Trade
Justice Movement website where they
can also find out about local lobbying events
on 27/28 June.
7 TELEVISION COMMERCIALS ON DVD? [12-06-03]
Capitol
Records Canada have a listed 7 Television
Commercials for a DVD release on August
5th. [thanks Kallen]
PRESS [12-06-03]
Netherlands: De Volkskrant
has a Hail to The Thief review.
Germany: Hail to the Thief
review in Tagesspiegel,
Interview with Colin and Phil in Intro
magazine (with audio).
USA: Hail to the Thief
review at IGN.com,
Chicago
Sun Times. Nude as the News: Field
Day Review
Canada: Hour.ca
have an interview with Jonny Greenwood
UK: Thom on Tom at BBC
6 Music online.
[thanks Andy, SttM, John, Jake]
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have a new string quartet tribute album
listed. The CD should be out on July 1st
and has the following tracks:
Motion Picture Soundtrack
You & Whose Army?
My Iron Lung
(Nice Dream)
Permanent Daylight
National Anthem
Idioteque
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Just
Morning Bell/Amnesiac
Palo Alto
There There
[Thanks Andrew]
MTV UK SHEPHERD'S BUSH DOWNLOAD [12-06-03]
MTV
UK has 9 songs from Radiohead's Shepherd's
Bush gig in London for download. [thanks
stonecutter2]
WIN A HAIL TO THE THIEF VESPA [12-06-03]
Enter for your chance to win a one of a
kind Vespa courtesy of Filter
Magazine, Vespa, Diesel, and Capitol
Records. Be sure to stop by your local music
retailer and pick up a copy of Radiohead's
latest album, Hail to the Thief, available
in stores now. You can also enter at participating
Vespa and Diesel retailers. Check websites
for a store nearest you. [Thanks Charles]
Theres a competition to win a1.5m sq print
of the original canvas art for Hail to the
thief at the Oxford streets Virgin Megastore.
You can pick up forms from the store to
emter or at virgin.com/megastores. Entries
by 6th july and the draw is held on Wednesday
25th july. [thanks Emily]
JONNY GREENWOOD AUDIO INTERVIEW [11-06-03]
VPRO's Sander Kerkhof has interviewed Jonny
Greenwood. The full interview is now online
at 3voor12.nl.
Jonny talks about the fans, Bodysong, programming
music and of course on recording the new
album.
HAIL TO THE THIEF SALES [11-06-03]
'HAIL TO THE THIEF' is on course to achieve
the biggest first week album sales in the
UK this year after selling over 60,000 copies
in just two days. If the album, the band's
sixth, continues selling in such quantities
it could even challenge last year's best
first week sales - 270,000 for Coldplay's
'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' and 260,000
for Robbie Williams ' 'Escapology'.
'Hail To The Thief' is currently selling
more than the rest of the Top Five put together,
including Metallica's 'St Anger' and Stereophonics'
'You Gotta Go There To Come Back', currently
2003's biggest first-week seller, having
shifted 102,000 in that period.
HMV chart spokesman Gennaro Castaldo said:
"It just goes to show how many people
are still into Radiohead. There's a degree
of compulsion with this band." [from
nme,
thanks Ivan & Reuben]
In the USA Hail to the Thief is having a
great first week by any account. After one
day of sales, the album looks like it will
approach 250k for the week, with plenty
of stock in the marketplace. [thanks ari
& jacek]
WEDNESDAY REVIEWS [11-06-03]
The Daily
Iowan have a Hail to the Thief review
online. The Philidelphian
Enquirer & The
Onion have one as well. An excerpt of
the Thom Yorke interview for Rolling
Stone is available. And on another note,
Radiohead's Creep is listed #84 in VH1's
top 100 songs of the past 25 years. [thanks
Conny, Milosz, Chris, Bishr, Martin &
Richard]
CFOX ANNOUNCE VANCOUVER SHOW [11-06-03]
Local Vancouver radio station CFOX just
annouced that Radiohead will be playing
a two day concert with REM at Vancouver's
Thunderbird Stadium on August 29th and 30th.
Radiohead will play on the 30th, REM headlines
the 29th. Tickets are $49.50 for the individual
days, $89 for both days and available at
Ticketmaster (on phones and on-line) Saturday
June 21st at 9:30 a.m. [thanks
Quinn & Ben]
WIN RADIOHEAD GOODIES AT SYNTHESIS.NET [11-06-03]
At Synthesis.net
you can enter a contest to win a copy of
the new Radiohead single, a T-Shirt &
a Radiohead prize pack! Enter
the contest.
LAMACQ PLAYBACK AND MORE HTTT REVIEWS [10-06-03]
More online stuff: Radiohead's session and
interview at Colin's house last night plus
a feature on Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich
are available at the Lamacq
Live archive.
An interview
with Thom is available at the Toronto
Star, who als a have review
of the Beacon Theatre show. German e-zine
Alternative
Nation have a Hail to the Thief review.
And VH1 review Radiohead's performance at
the Field
Day Festival. [thanks Richard, Ben]
CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY INTERVIEWS [10-06-03]
Hail
To The Thief is now released in North
America. But, as you all know, Christopher
O'Riley has released his Classical Radiohead
tribute 'True
Love Waits' today. German/Austrian webzine
'Noize' had an interview
(in english) with Chris online. They also
have a review
of 'True Love Waits' (in german) and
one for 'Hail
to the Thief' as well.
There's more: Canada's National
Post have a very nice interview with
Christopher O'Riley. CTNow have an interview
as well as the Oak
Park newspaper. SunTimes.com
reviewed True Love Waits. And OCRegister.com
review Christopher's perfomance with the
Pacific Symphony.
PITCHFORK: HAIL TO THE THIEF, 9.3 [10-06-03]
Hail to the Thief doesn't dig up Britpop
skeletons from The Bends, and it's not OK
Computer 2, as Yorke has called it in the
press. It is, however, a holding pattern.
Thom's excusatory remarks only underscore
his chief failing: he can't grasp that pure,
radical change isn't always the best option,
whatever personal pride he as an artist
takes from doing something "new"
(and personally, I think Eno and his German
collaborators from the late 70s have plenty
of reasons to bristle at Kid A). There's
nothing to apologize for here: Radiohead
are a band, and after a fashion, bands are
defined by their music. Much as U2's Zooropa
still sounded like U2, anything Radiohead
does from here on out will sound like Radiohead.
That's one paragraph from the Pitchforkmedia.com
review. Read it in full at Pitchfork.
NOT KIDDING: TINYMIXTAPES REVIEW [10-06-03]
On April 1st, TinyMixTapes.com
had the first Hail To The Thief review.
A nice read actually.. well, for those who
look at their calendar regularly. Anyway,
the album's out now and TMT have a proper
review
online now. (oh, they were nice enough
to put that April Fools review back up)
XFM HAIL TO THE THIEF SECTION [09-06-03]
XFM put together a full 'Hail to the Thief'
section, including the Thom Yorke interview
wit John Kennedy, an interview with There
There video direcror Chris Hopewell and
lots more. Check out the competition as
well! Here it is: xfm.co.uk/radiohead.
MORE REVIEWS [09-06-03]
Radiohead's new album 'Hail to the Thief'
is officially out today, so more reviews
available. Here we go: BBC
News Online, Disinformation,
IC
Coventry, Oregon
Live.
DIRECTOR CHRIS HOPEWELL ON THERE THERE VIDEO
[09-06-03]
Chris Hopewel on XFM.co.uk “The actual
shoot with Thom took four days, which was
not bad. We shot him one day in location
in the woods and then three in the studio
in front of a green screen. And he was brilliant.
He was absolute star. And he's such a bloody
good actor, if he ever gets bored of singing
he should move into that sort of area, ‘cos
he takes directions really, really well
but he also brings so much of his own character
to it. The character that he plays in it,
even though it's only a five minute thing
there is some character development, you
can see him becoming more greedy as he goes
in and Thom did do that so well. That's
the advantage of doing something over such
a short period, it is quite intense and
I think he did really get into the role
of it really. I think he thoroughly enjoyed
it too. I hope he did. [read it in full
at XFM]
COLIN AUDIO INTERVIEW [09-06-03]
There's an interview with Colin Greenwood
available at Cutting
Interviews. You can listen to an audio
stream. Here's some bits from the interview:
How much does the audience's reaction influence
the final songs? Colin: "With
this record the audience really loved songs
like 'There There' and the songs they didn't
like, we didn't record [laughs]. This is
a very democratic album in lots of ways
and how we worked on the music and then
how we played to music to the audience.
After we finished playing the music to the
audience we went into the studio for two
and a half weeks. It's like a photograph
of the tour taken of each song. It's like
a memento. It's like we finished to whole
thing before we started. Which is interesting."
Is that the reason why 'There There'
was the first single and not '2+2=5'.
Colin: "That's the
one we wanted to have as a single as well.
It might be a single one day. [Colin sings:
'It's the devils way now'] It's
one of my favourite tunes on the record.
It's great, it's cool, it's fast, it's loud,
it's WOOF!"
RADIOHEAD AD CENSORED IN SINGAPORE [09-06-03]
Radiohead's teaser ad for Hail To The Thief,
has been censored by local tabloid, The
New Paper. The ad had the lines: "We
suck young blood. We want sweet meat. We
