Radiohead to play Berlin

Radiohead will play at Parkbühne Wuhlheide in Berlin, Germany on September 11th. Tickets [55,- DM] are not on sale yet. But will be announced asap. [Thanks Daniel]

Radiohead's concert in Vaison La Romaine [France] will be broadcast live throught the internet on May 28th. Les Inrocks site will take care of the transmission. The concert can also be seen and heard through venues all over France by satellite. Check this site for a list of venues. [thanks Aurelien & Mona]

And a final message on that ghost track: - it is called 'cuttooth' and it was dropped from amnesiac. it remains as of yet, unreleased. [thanks max]

Ed O'Brien on Radio 3FM

Ed O'Brien was a guest Dutch radio station 3FM today. Ed talked with Wim Rigter in the 'Arbeidsvitaminen' show about Amnesiac and Ed mum's appearances on Radiohead guestlists. Ed played one of his favourite records, which is 'Ghost Town' by the Specials. I've recorded the broadcast. Listen to it by clicking here.

With the band only playing 1 UK gig this year, Ed reveals future tours are undecided after 2000's Big Top tour. "Having the same tent every night meant we didn't have to compromise- the sound and lights were amazing, they're the best gigs we have ever done" Ed enthuses. But I do accept tickets were dear. We may go back to Brixton-style venues and only charge half-price. Some people always assume that we know 'the right thing to do' the truth is we don't." - read it in full here. [thanks Andy]

The Australian broadcast of Top of the pops will be on Sunday May 27th at ABC TV.

Tickets for the Budokan, Tokyo on October 2nd will go on sale on June 10th. [thanks Kyoko]

There was a unknown track played at french radio last week. The track (available in the multimedia section) was #9 on the DJ's copy of Amnesiac. Max K. explains: "official people have confirmed that the track is the one known as 'cuttooth' - which was dropped from the amnesiac track listing at the last minute. it was track 9 on an early tracklisting, so that is where the 'hunting bears' confusion comes from plus the fact it sounds a lot like neu! etc - matches up with eds diary... as for whether it will be a b-side for knives out is more unknown, simply cause decisions like that change from day to day. as for when it was recorded and whether it is actually called 'tongue tied' now is another question..."

According to HMV the Knives Out single (double CD) will be released on July 23rd in the UK. [thanks Andy]

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Amnesiac Listening Party in Montreal

There will be an Amnesiac listenning party at the Paramount Famous Player in Montreal on Ste-Catherine West Street on May 24th. The only way to get in is to listen to radio station COOL FM 98.5 and win tickets. [Thanks kHairan]

Radiohead shocked by 'Kid A' reception

Thom Yorke, who rarely gives interviews, told Mojo magazine: "I was really, really amazed at how badly it was being viewed. I actually went into quite a deep state of shock when Kid A came out. People were calling it `commercial suicide', blah blah blah and saying that we were being `intentionally difficult'. That just blew me away because the music's not that hard to grasp.'' here's the full story. [thanks Owen]

TOTP, Blender, Much Music

As mentioned yesterday, the band recorded two songs for Top of the Pops. The performance of 'Pyramid Song' will be broadcast on Friday May 25th (19:35 - BBC2) [Thanks Mieke & Wesley]

There's an article in Maxim's Blender magazine with Thom. He answers a bunch of questions that people sent in, ranging from the topics of bears, automobiles, and computers. [thanks Jason]

Much Music has a story on Thom Yorke and the upcoming elections here.
Similar story at Ananova,
who have something
about the UK listening parties. And something we read
before about LP6. There's an article from the Chicago Tribune,
where Radiohead is mentioned here.
[thanks Espen]

The Downloadable Sounds of Orgy... and more

The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy is available for download here.

Dutch magazine Nieuwe Revu has an interview with Ed O'Brien.

There will be an Amnesiac listening party at Paradiso, Amsterdam [Netherlands] on May 28th.

Radiohead will record a live version of their forthcoming single 'Pyramid Song' at a filming in west London for Top of the Pops later today (May 17). In addition, they will also record a version of 'Knives Out', the track which is strongly rumoured to be the second single from the band's forthcoming album 'Amnesiac', released on June 4 via Parlophone. It is expected that neither track will feature on this week's edition of the popular BBC chart show, broadcast every Friday from 7.30pm - instead the songs will be used in a future broadcast. [from nme.com]

From now until the last day of the Pinkpop festival [June 4th] you can buy a Pinkpop 2001 sampler with a live version of Radiohead's 'Dollars and Cents' on it. You can order it here. When you purchase the CD you'll support Amnesty International as well!

Here's the press release of the forthcoming Radiohead tribute, "Anyone can play Radiohead".

Colin on LP6

We've talked about doing a guitar album next," Colin Greenwood reports. "The reason we did these two records is to show that anything is possible rather than everything is expected; the last thing we wanted to do was go into the studio and make another version of OK Computer. My best guess for the next album is a combination of Amnesiac with more guitar music. But the most important thing is, it's song-based music rather than sort of instrumental, non-lyric based music. We try not to insult or bore the intelligence of our audience, because we're aware their tastes are moving on as well as ours with music, and it's exciting to be part of that." [from wall of sound]

Thom Yorke's NME interview now online

"I just got sick of holding grudges basically," he says, eventually, birds still a-tweet. "Enough's enough. Erm? (Tweet tweet) Not least because the people involved have all left. Anyway, I'm doing the NME a favour. Fattening themselves up for floating themselves on the international money market and no doubt this will help, because I'm a name. (Monumental derision) NME-dot-com. More bullshit per second than... whatever." This is from Thom's interview with NME, read more here.

Radiohead interested in buying Church Studios

Dave Stewart is to make a huge profit selling the studios which set the Eurythmics on the path to fame. Church Studios in north London is expected to fetch £1.5 million, according to the Daily Record. Among those who are thought to be interested in buying the studios are Radiohead. [from Ananova, thanks Espen]

Win U.S. Tickets!

Looking for a miracle so you can go to one of the upcoming Radiohead shows? Enter the iblip 2.0 contest to win a pair of tickets to any of the US dates on the first leg of the tour and you may find yourself wiggling along with Thom.

Meet the newest iblip 2.0 companions. But be careful what you wish for! While these animated Amnesiac characters make for convenient keepers of Radiohead downloads, videos, news and more, they may distract you with their nervous ticks and shady behavior.

Japanese Pyramid Song

The Japanese release of Pyramid Song is now available. Here's the tracklisting: 1. Pyramid Song, 2. Fast Track, 3. The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy, 4. Trans-Atlantic Drawl, 5. Kinetic

Apparently, you can order the Pyramid Song CD (maxi) released in Japan at these sites: tower, HMV [thanks Kyoko]

Tickets for Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA(6/23) & Santa Barbara Bowl (6/29&30) have gone on sale again at w.a.s.t.e.. [thanks Jason]

The new issue of Mojo [June] is out now and contains a revealing interview with Thom Yorke by Nick Kent plus wicked portraits of the band and track by track discection of Amnesiac by David Cavanagh (the latter writes like a tit if you ask me). Thom Answers questions ranging from the recording of Kid A/Amnesiac to fatherhood and politics and also addresses the future of music distribution as their contract with EMI is up after their 6th album. Thom stating that they are not planning for internet distribution for the future... Check it out. [Thanks Dom]

Hear an Amnesiac remix at anticow.

At Ease = MTV's fansite of the week!

AT EASE has been chosen as MTV's 'fansite of the week' this week!!!

Nort American tour tickets

W.a.s.t.e. have made a supply of tickets for the first leg of the North American tour available and as usual the tickets will be the best in the venue and are limited to 4 per person. Just a warning, tickets are selling out very fast. More tickets will go on sale later.

Mon 18th Jun USA, Spring TX, CW Mitchell Stadium $35.50
Wed 20th Jun USA, Denver, Colorado, Red Rocks Amphitheatre $38.00
Sat 23rd Jun USA, George WA, Gorge Amphitheatre $39.95
Wed 27th Jun USA, Mountainview CA, Shoreline Amphitheatre $39.00
Fri 29th Jun USA, Santa Barbara CA, Santa Barbara Bowl $38.00
Sat 30th Jun USA, Santa Barbara CA, Santa Barbara Bowl $38.00

MTV contest and ticket pre-order

Enter to win today and you might find yourself on a plane to see Radiohead on tour in Oxford, Tokyo and Los Angeles! Not to mention you'll have backstage passes for each show and a pocket full of MTV's cash. Click here to enter!

Turn to MTV.com to pre-order tickets to the first six Radiohead dates. The pre-sale runs from Thursday, May 10, at 10am (in the time zone of the show you wish to purchase tickets to) to Friday, May 11th, 10pm. Log on early!

Houston - 10 AM TO 10 PM CENTRAL TIME
Denver - 10 AM TO 10 PM PACIFIC TIME
Vancouver - 10 AM TO 10 PM PACIFIC TIME
Seattle - 10 AM TO 10 PM PACIFIC TIME
San Francisco - 10 AM TO 10 PM PACIFIC TIME
Santa Barbara - 10 AM TO 10 PM PACIFIC TIME

Watch the Pyramid Song video

"Pyramid Song" on MTV's primetime show "MTV2 Presents Videos To Watch?" The show will be re-aired at the following times:

Wednesday, May 9th 5:30 PM
Thursday, May 10th 1:00 AM, 12:30 PM, 7:00 PM
Friday, May 11th 9:30 PM
Sunday, May 13th Midnight
Monday, May 14th 1:00 AM

Win big at HMV.com

HMV.com is having a Radiohead contest. Winner (and there will be five, total) receives a prize pack consisting of:

- 1 Advance Limited Edition copy of 'Amnesiac'
- 1 Limited Edition copy of 'Kid A'
- 1 DVD of Radiohead film "Meeting People is Easy"
- 1 CD single for "I Might be Wrong"
- 1 vinyl & 1 CD version of the single for "Idioteque"
- 1 Interview CD with Jonny and Colin Greenwood

The catch is that you get the Limited Edition 'Amnesiac' sent to you BEFORE release so that you can host your own listening party, etc. Click here to enter [only open to Canadians]

Santa Barbara tickets

Tickets for the Santa Barbara shows on on June 29th & 30th will go on sale May 13th @ 10 AM. more info in the tour section.

Kid Eh?!

Well, just have a look at this!

And here's a bit from an interview with rock critic Robert Christgau:"Somebody may well ask me to write a canonizing record book. And would you? If the money were right, I wouldn't hesitate to do it. But even then, Dr. Dre and Radiohead would not be in that book. Now Radiohead is the most important rock band in the world by acclamation. Bull fucking shit, you know. They suck. And whether I'll be vindicated or not I don't know. " [Thanks Espen]

Thom Yorke's NME interview

Thom Yorke has spoken out against the secretive power of the UK intelligence service, MI5, in an exclusive interview with NME.COM.
MI5, which is famously secretive and unaccountable, is involved in intelligence work to investigate and counter covertly organised 'threats'. These include terrorism, subversion, espionage, serious crime and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Talking about the 'Reclaim The Streets' protests last year, Yorke claimed the authorities were closely monitoring protesters. He told NME.COM: "I know some stuff about MI5 that would shit your brain. But I can't tell you, 'cos they'll do it to me, too. Seriously. And I'm not winding you up, either."

Thom Yorke has broken his silence to give a rare interview, which will appear in next week's issue of NME (May 15). The singer, who has not spoken to the paper for five years, explained his decision to relent. "I just got sick of holding grudges basically," said Yorke. "Enough's enough, it's boring and I can't be arsed any more, really."

For the full story see this week's NME or NME.com.

Plentiful Radiohead merch

Here's a story on the various release formats of Amnesiac [thanks Espen]

Humphrey Lyttelton's 80th Birthday

A musical collaboration between jazz trumpeter and band leader Humphrey Lyttelton and Radiohead will be premièred on BBC Radio 2. The track, Living In a Glasshouse, will be broadcast as part of a special series of programmes to celebrate the jazz musician's 80th birthday. "People had said to me they were all crazy, but in fact we had a good time," Lyttleton recalled of the session He added: "It was a very heavy day." [thanks Chikara]

One, two, MPthree: B-sides

Three new Radiohead tracks are now online. Kinetic, Trans-Atlantic Drawl & Fast Track can be found here.

Eins, zwei, MPdrei: Berlin

The full concert from Berlin, last year, is now back online.

Un, deux, MPtrois: Paris

The link i posted yesterday of the Paris gig is down, so i decided to put them up in the multimedia section.

And here's an article from the Times about that 'Radiohead buddy' [thanks Simon]

MTV2 Presents: Radiohead Get audio & video streams from Radiohead. Then catch MTV2 Presents: Videos to Watch May 7 on MTV.

Rolling Stone interview

Rollingstone.com has an interview up with Ed O'Brien & Phil Selway. Here are some bits and pieces.
Ed said what Stanley Donwood thought of the album: "Stanley said a great thing," O'Brien recalls. "He said, 'Kid A is like you pick up the phone, you call somebody, and there's an answering machine on the other end. With Amnesiac, you get through to that person. And you're engaged in the conversation."

"There were some tenuous moments," says Phil Selway with a nervous laugh when asked if Radiohead had been in any danger of breaking up while making the two new albums. "There was this dissatisfaction with the way we used to work, but the new way -- using computers more, using sequencers an awful lot -- wasn't producing results."

"We were quite split for two days," Selway recalls. "Thom was very into the idea of a double album, of clearing the decks: 'This is what we've been doing for three years, now we want to move on.' I thought a double album would have been quite unpalatable. People said they had problems with Kid A. Imagine if it had been a double album. I don't think anyone would have given it a second hearing." Radiohead decided to issue two single discs. Amnesiac has its share of Kid A-style art games; one song, "Like Spinning Plates," was built over the backing track of another unreleased song, "I Will," played backward.

O'Brien declines to make any promises about Radiohead's future. "What will happen next is not entirely resolved," he says. "We haven't been in the studio for a while. We're not touring this time the way we used to. People have families now." Yorke became a father on February 6th; he and his girlfriend, Rachel, had a son, Noah. "I don't want to sound negative," O'Brien insists. "Things have changed. It's good. But everything was thrown up in the air two years ago. It's still settling."

read it in full here [thanks Espen]

Ask Thom!

At the french Magic website you can submit your questions to be answered by Thom Yorke. Go to their website here. Or head over to the questions form right here. [thanks nepasavaler.net]

Radiohead to play Belfast Odyssey Arena

As reported earlier Radiohead will be playing Ireland after their USA Tour. Here are the dates for Belfast; 12 & 14 September at the Odyssey Arena.

Woodlands & Morrison tickets

Tickets for Radiohead's concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre (Morrison, CO) on 20th June 2001 go on sale 12th May at noon. [thanks jordan] Tickets for Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, TX will go on sale on the same date [thanks Sareen]

Canal+ gig for download

Last week's gig in Paris, recorded for Canal+, is now [partly] online. Have a look here. [thanks Aurelien & Mona]

Monday, MTV will be airing MTV2's music to watch (10 pm EST) with Pyramid song. [thanks Drew & Andy]

Radiohead on Sonic Temple

Radiohead are going to be performing on a show called "Sonic Temple" which is sort of a Canadian version of "Saturday Night Live". They didnt say when, but I imagine when Radiohead goes to Toronto, so probably early August. [Thanks Brent]

Vancouver tickets on sale

Tickets for the Vancouver show on June 24th officially go on sale Saturday, May 12th at Ticketmaster for $49.50 plus facility fee and service charge (4 ticket limit).

An internet pre-sale will also be available from 9:30am May 10 until 8pm [pacific time] May 11 only through www.cfox.com. Tickets can be won on Fox as well. [Thanks Ryan]

Pyramid Song pre-order

You can now pre-order the 4 track Pyramid Song EP at HMV.com for the price of $7.99 CDN.

Get your Radiohead tickets!

w.a.s.t.e. have made some more tickets available for the European dates at the end of May.

Tickets for the N. American dates may be also available soon. Also, note that the August tour dates have not been officially confirmed yet, the band have officially denied that any of them are booked yet, and the original source of the dates have retracted them. Expect an official announcement in a few days when everything has been confirmed. [thanks max]

Tickets for the Pinkpop festival are now sold out.

OK, will this ever end? Here's some more information collected by Joel.
Chicago people click here.

Phil's interview on Radio 3FM

Today Phil was in The Netherlands doing some press and radio. Phil was on the Radio 3FM show called 'Leuk is anders', where he had an interview with Dolf Janssen. Before listening to the show, you should know 2 things. 1. There was another guest on the show, a balloonist. 2. Dolf Janssen always talks like this!

OK, so here are the audio files from the interview:

Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3

[..and Ed & Phil had an interview with VPRO's Sander Kerkhof today, which will be broadcast shortly on 3voor12.nl & radio 3]

On Saturday, May 5, at 3pm ET/Noon PT KCRW will debut an interview with Ed and Colin with Chris Douridas. Then on May 7th, you can hear it for a week at Spinner.com.

Thom's Spin with a Grin

Thom Yorke answered a few questions on 'spin with a grin' again. John Earls asked if there will be more singles from 'amnesiac'. Thom answered: yes there will be more singles. all aimed at radio3.

Veronique asked why 'morning bell' was included on the album again. Thom answered: because it came from such a different place from the other version. because we only found it again by accident after having forgotten about it. because it sounds like a recurring dream. it felt right.

And the Jenny had a lot of questions: What is it New Labour that particularly frustrates you? How do you feel about the other main political parties? Will you vote? Young people are increasingly labelled as 'apathetic' and criticised for not voting. What do you think about this idea? Do you think it is irresponsible to vote for someone you don't believe in? Would you consider launching "You And Whose Army" as an official anti-election tune?

Thom answered: this song is not a personal attack. but no i wont vote and havent votedfor a man willing to go along with son of star wars. its not exactly surprising that a large section of the population will not give a flying fuck about the election. everybody blames evryobody else. and new labour is happy to let filingdales be used in world war 3. they are not in touch and have blatantly betrayed all who supported them except those friendly business interests. we were involved in a campaign to encourage people to vote a few years ago in the uK. this was hijacked by labour. labour are good at highjacking and betraying. they attempted something rather similair with jubilee2000. frightening levels of paranoid bullshit. err oh dear. world war 3.

And there was something included about the NME. I guess you should have read at SWAG
and NME.com.

More Radiohead tour info

The Beta Band will tour with Radiohead on their U.S. tour this Summer. Radiohead (Thom especially) are big fans of The Beta Band and invited them.

Confirmed for the line up for the Oxford gig so far is an acoustic performance by Beck, Sigur Ros (who supported Radiohead on some of the dates of their European tent tour of 2000) and Humphrey Lyttelton and his band!. Further acts to announce, including local Oxford bands. [thanks Caffy]

I've changed some of the information in the tour dates. Apparently a 'Butler Field' does exist in Chicago. ''Soldiers Field" is a bit to large for a venue. Gonna stick with Butler Field for now. For the ones who want to know: It's the big area in Grant Park, right off the lake downtown. Plus the Rock am Ring info is corrected. Corrected some typos [thanks Brent, Randy, Eric, Max, Konstantin, Congra, Mike & Bill]

The Pyramid Song video

As you all know, "Pyramid Song" is accompanied by a stunning animation by Shynola, who did some of the Kid A blips. "'Thom Yorke sent us a very disjointed couple of paragraphs about a dream he'd had about lights in the sky and a load of survivors floating in an aircraft carrier after an unknown disaster or event and we took our inspiration from that,' explains Shynola's Jason Groves. 'It was quite evocative, and it sort of set the mood for the whole promo.'"

The single 'Pyramid Song' will be released in the UK (CD1/CD2/12"), Canada, Australia and Japan (one CD) on May 21st. Three brand new tracks : 'The Amazing Sounds of Orgy', 'Trans-atlantic Drawl' and 'Kinetic' will be released on the single. The UK CD1/CD2 and Japanese CD will also contain 'Fast Track'. [thanks Caffy]

The 5 song ep shipping to college (2 album tracks/3 b-sides) isn't actually shipping until may 3rd (this friday), presumably going for adds to stations playlists on may 14/15th. [thanks Ned]

Iowa playback cancelled

The Iowa city Amnesiac playback at the Airliner restaurant has been mysteriously cancelled after being postponed last week. Jeremy wrote in to say: "Nobody at the restaurant even acted like they knew what I was talking about when I asked them about it. Bizarre".

More USA dates added and confirmed

After yesterday's list [see below], here are some more dates:

August 1st: Butler Field, Chicago
August 2nd: Molson Park, Toronto
August 5th: Parc Jean Drapeau, Montreal
August 7th: Blossom Music Center, Cleveland
August 9th: Venue TBA, Philadelphia
August 11th: Bull Run, Washington
August 12th: Bull Run, Washington
August 14th: Suffolk Downs, Boston
August 16th: Liberty State Park, New York
August 17th: Liberty State Park, New York
August 20th: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles

more info in the tour section

According to Rolling Stone, Radiohead are playing in Ireland as well.

Radiohead USA dates confirmed

Tour dates for the USA/Canada are now confirmed: Here are all of them:

June 18th: C.W. Mitchell Pavilion, Houston
June 20th: Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison
June 23th: The Gorge, George
June 24th: Thunderbird Stadium, Vancouver
June 27th: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View
June 29th: Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara
June 30th: Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara

more info in the tour section

Oxford show broadcast

Virgin radio will broadcast the Oxford Show on July 7th. More info on the broadcast is not available yet. But I'll let you know when it arrives. [thanks Zach]

The iBlip 2.0 has landed!

Radiohead have launched a new flash version of the iBlip 2.0 from their brand new website. You can now sample Amnesiac tracks,watch the debut of the video for "Pyramid Song" and send diatribes to friends (or foes) on postcards that get sent via snail mail! And stay tuned for interviews with Ed & Colin, live webcasts, a full album listening party and much more. Packt with Radiohead exclusives,the iBlip offers up some innovative surprises.
Click on the iBlip button on the right.