Thom amazes again with different set at Bridge School Benefit

Thom's second night at the Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre was as great as the first one, with a different setlist as well. Introducing himself with: "Hi my name is Thom Yorke and I'm from a band called Radiohead" he played a set of eight songs on acustic guitar and piano. Tonight he played tracks like morning bell, nice dream, true love waits and an amazing version of paranoid android. For a full setlist, check the gigography. [thanks pearly* & virginia]

Here's a review from the San Francisco Chronicle &
here's one from Contra Costa Times.

Thom Yorke at the Bridge School benefit: 1st Night

Last night was the first night of Thom Yorke's rare solo appearance at this year's Bridge School benefit concert in the US. The concert took place at the Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre.

Thom played a set with old tracks, two new ones from the recent tour (there, there & sail to the moon) and a Neil Young cover (after the gold rush).

The shows are aimed to raise funds for the non-profit school co-founded by Neil Young, which works with children with speech and physical difficulties.
For a full setlist, check the gigography. [thanks pearly*, jeff, audra, john & ben]

Kid Koala on Radiohead

Not many DJs can say they opened for Radiohead, but Kid Koala (a k a Eric San) can -- he toured with Thom Yorke and Co. last year. Describe your style before I try to and screw it up. The Miami Herald asked him to describe his style: "It's ''turntable cabaret.'' I go into different areas, cutting up down-tempo breaks into some hip-hop, shift to a bit of electro. Now I have been playing with melody from watching guys like [Radiohead guitarist] Jonny Greenwood. I am using elements in sets that are pretty and subtle, but you'd notice if they weren't there."
What was it like opening for Radiohead? "I was really nervous. I had been in front of big crowds before when I toured with Money Mark of the Beastie Boys, but this time I was up there by myself in places like a packed Madison Square Garden. I opted for an artsy set. I knew it wasn't going to turn into a bouncing hip-hop party, but that crowd is forward-thinking and it went better than I expected." [full story]

Thinking about you

Rocky Mountain News writes: Justin Timberlake points at the sultry, groove-laden ballad Take It From Me as proof of his versatility. "It's an R&B song, but I sang it like a rock track," he says. "I was thinking about Thom Yorke of Radiohead and Mazzy Star as I was singing that song. It's totally fresh and different. It's also completely me - and that's what counts most of all. There's a lot more to me than people have previously believed." [full story]

Remember, Roch Voisine? Apparently, he's been doing some live shows and performing Radiohead's Highy & Dry. [full story]

There's a story in the Las Vegas Mercury about record companies trying to keep new music away from the internet... and the press! Radiohead were mentioned as well "In 2000, Capitol invited select writers from key publications to its office to hear Radiohead's hotly anticipated album, Kid A. When the writers got there, they found individual listening stations, where they would get to spend limited time with the album. We're talking a few hours, people. Ever had to listen to a work repeatedly in one setting and be forced to not only form an opinion over it, but analyze it? Especially from a band like Radiohead?! It's no wonder Kid A and the band found itself on the wrong end of a few critics' pens. To add insult to injury, the album was leaked to the Net before release anyway. Luckily, the album sold in the millions, and the band went back to traditional press distribution for its 2001 studio album, Amnesiac." [full story]

Colin to join Thom on stage at the Shoreline Amphitheatre?

It's rumoured that both Thom and Colin are flying to San Francisco for the Bridge School Benefit (October 26th & 27th). It's not certain if this means that Colin will perform as well, but it sure is a possibility.

Radiohead were at the Oxford Brookes University Students Union for the DJ shadow gig 2 nights ago. It seems that they skipped the Q afterparty and went straight to the DJ Shadow show [thanks Ryan]

Radiohead's 'Everything in it's right place' was used on tonight's 'Home Front In The Garden' on BBC 2 (UK). [ok, so no news then:)]

A commercial for Turner Classic Movies for their Western movies had 'I Might Be Wrong' layered over the commercial. [thanks Matthew]

Radiohead to be included on Capitol box set

Capitol Records 60th Anniversary is to be commemorated with a limited-edition 6-CD boxed sets and photo book. There's one CD for each decade from the `40s to the present. Radiohead are included on the '90's disc with 'Creep' & Fake Plastic Trees'. The Box set will be in stores this month. [thanks Doug]

Q awards ceremony on Channel 4

The Q award ceremony will be broadcast today on Channel 4 [UK] at 11:35pm tonight. Radiohead received the award for Best act in the world [see below, thanks filtherator]

Radiohead: Best act in the world today

Despite leading the field of hopefuls with three Q Award nominations, Oasis failed to collect a single gong, losing the much-coveted Best Act in the World Today award to Radiohead. The Oxford rockers were presented the award by cult comedians The League of Gentlemen at a star-studded ceremony attended by the likes of Moby, So Solid Crew and Ms Dynamite. It is the second time that Radiohead have won the award in two years, having originally collected it in 2001 off the back of their critically acclaimed album, "Amnesiac." "A lot of the time when we've made records, we think we've done the most stupid thing we could have possibly done," said a very quiet Thom Yorke. "So things like this mean a lot to us otherwise we wouldn't have the confidence to do it because that's what we're like." [from Q4music, thanks Matthew & Matt]

Thom in Bjork documentary

You can see them Yorke in a Bjork documentary, to be broadcast on various TV stations takes look on her whole solo career, spanning from 1993 to 2002 - and broadcasts in conjunction with the Greatest Hits and Family Tree releases. In a preview, available here, Thom: "She was born with a voice that is very sexual and at the same time very childlike, very viscious and powerful". [thanks pat]

The Documentary is already scheduled in RUV/Iceland, TV2/Denmark, TV3 /Ireland, RTV/Slovenia, Canal+ /Spain, FLYTV/ABC Australia, NRK/Norway on 29 November, STARTV Switzerland will show it in the week of album release. Channel 5 in the UK on 3rd of November. [from bjork.com]

James Lavelle on Radiohead

In an interview with the Guardian, James Lavelle (UNKLE) mentions Radiohead: Lavelle disproves the theory that he is a style sponge by placing two non-club albums at the top of his list: The Bends by Radiohead and Revolver by the Beatles. "Radiohead have only ever put out phenomenally good records, and Tomorrow Never Knows [on Revolver] is the first track to use a sample and it blows me away every time. I'm quite boring, really. I'm just waiting for the new albums by Radiohead and Massive Attack to come out and I'll be happy." [from the guardian, thanks Lucy & Matthew]

Rock, rock, rock, rock & roll high school!

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Coldplay's Chris Martin said: "'Thom Yorke ignored me at a hotel in Los Angeles. I was secretly a bit gutted. I'm sure he recognized me. I always look at it like we're in a big musical high school and Radiohead is in the year above us and they still haven't come and sat with us at lunch.'' On Thom ''Cold Shoulder'' Yorke -- well, as Martin says, ''all our other favorite bands, like U2 and Oasis, have been great to us.'' [from EW.com]

Radiohead nominated for 'Best act in the world today'

Radiohead are nominated for 'Best act in the world today', part of an award ceremony by Q magazine. The band have received this award last year. If you want to help them with your vote, click here.

Ride declined tour with Radiohead

"OX4 - The Best of Ride," highlighting the recorded output of Ride will soon be released. An inteview the band said reports that there are currently no plans for a full-scale Ride reunion -- largely due to Bell's obligations with Oasis -- he says it's not completely out of the question. "The band were actually asked by Radiohead to be openers but they declined". [from billboard]

James Oakes covering Let Down

James Oakes, opening for the semi acoustic Chameleons UK gig, did an acoustic set with his bandmate guitarist, and about halfway through they played a killer rendition of Radiohead's "Let Down" at the San Francisco Great American Music Hall (Oct 16, 2002). [thanks Pearly*]

The Promise Ring on Radiohead & working with Nigel Godrich

The Promise Ring have seen the release of their new album Wood/Water bring them new media attention and scores of new fans. The Promise RIng did an interview with Kludge magazine and Radiohead & producer Nigel Godrich were mentioned:

Do you think the recent rise of bands like Radiohead have made the industry liberalize much? No not at all. I think the music business is getting less liberal. Radiohead is a fluke, they just wrote an amazing record and they’re an amazing band. There isn’t another Radiohead. There can’t be. Lightning doesn’t strike twice. It’s not all of a sudden there’s this big floodgate of “Prog rock” bands, or modern Prog rock or whatever you want to classify Radiohead as. It’s not like there’s a whole bunch of bands that are as good as Radiohead that all of a sudden labels want to get into. That’s not going to happen it’s going to be constructed pop songs like the American Idol stuff or its going to be like whatever else is popular right now, you know. There’s never going to be a point where it’s all of a sudden like really thoughtful artistic bands, “Let’s sign them,” you know? Radiohead was absolutely a fluke like that, they just happen to be totally amazing.

But wouldn't you agree that Radiohead has opened the door for bands like Sigur Ros? Yeah, I could see that, but I think it’s also the people that listen to music. It gets to a point where they’re kind of sick what’s out there. Obviously people are sick of the nu-metal constructed pop stuff of like ‘N Sync and want something else. As one falls something rises you know? So it just so happens to be that certain stuff. I don’t think just because Kid A and OK Computer or any of the Radiohead stuff was all of sudden just opening anything.

Davey: Kid A, especially here, is not a big record. It might as well be an indie release.

Except for Beck, see like Beck is just such a great musician, that because of his past success he can do whatever the fuck he wants. He obviously is and that’s amazing.

Do you think you guys would ever work with Godrich? I think so, possibly. I think especially after hearing that. I mean, just like OK Computer, I especially listened to that and now listening to the stuff that they’re doing without him, how much of that record was Nigel. It’s all about the band. Like Beck, how much of that record was Beck? You have to take into consideration the genius of the people who are actually making the music. But I would like to work with him because he sounds great and can do some good work. [full story, thanks Peter]

Asian Dub Foundation release album preview

Asian Dub Foundation will release a preview for the forthcoming album 'Enemy of the enemy'. The 'Fortress Europe' EP will be released this months and includes tracks from their new album, which will released in January. As reported earlier Radiohead's Ed O'brien has collaborated with the Asian Dub Foundation. At the moment it's not certain if there any tracks with Ed on this EP. [thanks JuRgen]

Radiohead fans: sick freaks?

Found this in the Guardian, where the author of the article compares Manchester United and Leeds united fans: "And I'll probably finish by explaining that so many people hate "trendy" Man United (because they're "trendy") that it has now become "trendy" to hate Man Utd. In fact Man Utd haters are like Radiohead fans - sick freaks who are only happy when they listen to music which makes then sad. Which means that Leeds fans are, by definition, weird perverts". [from the guardian]

Music columnist Ken Basin lists his favourite albums, year by year. 1997: Radiohead, OK Computer. As trendy as it has become to love Radiohead, I readily admit that I am one of the masses who waits expectantly for anything Thom Yorke wishes to grace the rest of the world with. OK Computer is my favorite of these gifts, blending the sounds of the past ("Electioneering"), present ("Karma Police") and future ("Paranoid Android") into a work I'd call nothing short of genius. [from the daily trojan]

Vote for ateaseweb.com

The IMAs highlight the best music sites on the internet (both official and unofficial) and this year dotmusic is hosting the People's Choice Award - an award voted for by the fans. I'd really appreciate it if you could click the button on the right and cast your vote for ateaseweb.com.

Thanks in advance!

Everything in its Right Place remix

There's a remix of "Everything in its Right Place" burning up the UK dance charts right now. According to UK's Muzik magazine This devastating house bootleg of "Everything in its Right Place" ditches Thom Yorke's pained vocal and adds a mercilessly effective 4/4 beat. Skills. The remix is a white label Head of the house remix. [thanks todd]

Blah, blah, blah...

Former Smith's singer Morrissey has been rejected by the music industry, but Morrissey's still goes to see record companies in search of a deal: "But they all ask me how much I'm prepared to compromise and I say 'Nothing'. One company said, 'Yes, we'll sign you, but we'd like you to make an album with Radiohead', which doesn't mean anything to me. [full story]

Radiohead were mentioned in an interview with Martin Grech. Everyone seems to think that Radiohead are an obvious influence in your music, are they and what have been your musical influences?
Martin Grech: "I did listen to a lot of Radiohead in my early teens - I'm still a big fan, but I also love Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Queen Adreena, Bjork. I was also raised on bands like The Blue Nile and Peter Gabriel." [full story]

Noel Gallagher on Radiohead again

And of course lovely Noel had something to say again; Question in the Sunday Morning Herald: If you want to be the biggest band in England or the biggest band in the world, it's going to come with the territory, isn't it?

Noel Gallagher: "You can't sell 35 f---ing million albums and be anonymous. Unless you're a country and western artist. It's like you can't be Elvis and not be famous, you can't be the Beatles and not be famous. You can't be Liam Gallagher and not be famous. Listen, Radiohead are a pretty big band but I'm sure they don't live it. We're Mancunians and we're Irish as well so we're never going to be Radiohead, we're going to enjoy what we do. It's not about stroking your f---ing chin and wondering where's music going, it's about time's running out man. We're all dying, we're all going to die soon and I intend living for you and me and all the people on the streets to go, 'look there is one band doing it'."

Christopher O'Riley playing Radiohead

On December 13, pianist Christopher O'Riley will be playing transcriptions of Radiohead music in concert at Miller Theatre at Columbia University in New York City. Tickets are $20 in advance or $30 the day of the show. More information about the concert is available here.

ateaseweb.com = back

Well, finally... ateaseweb.com is back online. There were a lot of problems the past month. This time, not due to bandwidth problems. My ISP had some problems.. don't know what kind of problems as my e-mails to were all ignored. Because the problem were getting worse in the past week, I've decided to switch hosts. Everything should be back up now. There are still some problems generating the pages properly, but I'm trying to solve all that.

Then, the message board. Because off all these problems I couldn't back up the previous message board and that's why I decided to start all over again. A new board with basically all the old features and forums, but we start off with a clean slate.. So, please register again if you haven't already.

There are probably a lot of people who have sent me e-mails, reporting the problems described above.. but sadly I have lost all these, because I couldn't access these e-mails. If you still need a response or if you e-mailed anything else, please send it again.

I apologise for the incovenience.

Thom Yorke in music power list

Bono has been voted the most powerful figure in the global music industry for his ability to win the attention of world leaders. The U2 frontman, who is known for his tireless campaigning against issues such as poverty and Aids, was singled out to top the list of the 50 Most Powerful People in Music by the readers of the UK's Q magazine.

The highest UK entry in the poll was Thom Yorke. He came sixth for his group's enduring success, as well as his own individual lobbying on world issues. [thanks adam]

Radiohead in Rolling Stone's all time album list

In the new issue of Rolling Stone with Keith Richards on the cover, readers voted online for the 100 greatest albums of all time. Kid A came in at number 26, The Bends at number 17, and OK Computer is number 8! [thanks Julien, Mr. Hankey]

16 down do another Radiohead flashback

Earlier this year Dutch band 16Down did a Radiohead Flashback. Due to popular demand the band have decided to add two more dates at the end of this year. 16Down will cover a full setlist of Radiohead songs at Zaal Struik in Lemelerveld, Netherlands on the 22nd and 23rd of December.

Next album will be the "exact opposite" of 'Amnesiac' and 'Kid A'

Radiohead's next album will be the "exact opposite" of 'Amnesiac' and 'Kid A' said Thom Yorke. At their recent recording session in LA the band completed ten songs.

"We've done ten tracks that worked," Yorke said. "All we've done so far is stuff that sort of seemed to work at the time. We basically wanted to capture the whole performance thing really. Catching a particular moment, because 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac' were quite heavily thought through, so we're trying to do the exact opposite of that really."

Radiohead spent two weeks at the Ocean Way studios in Los Angeles with producer Nigel Godrich, where they began work on their sixth studio album. However, the singer put paid to rumours that this meant a return to the guitar sound made famous on early albums 'The Bends' and 'OK Computer'.

When asked if the new record would be a guitar album he said: "Not really no, that's the thing that would be a mistake to think, it's just sort of capturing that energy." Of the new songs, Radiohead recorded a "good version" of new song 'We Suck Young Blood'. However, Yorke said that, if anything, they suffer from having too many ideas in the studio.

"Again, it's the same thing with us that the tone of the album's only ever dictated by what you're listening to, and each song's different from the others. We're trying lots of different angles at once, as usual," he said.

From here, Radiohead will remain in the UK for more recording sessions with Godrich, with a view to releasing the currently untitled album early next year. Yorke said that if they don't hit that release date, he'll "go mad". He joked: "Another two years doing a fucking record? We'll go crazy!"

However, Yorke goes back out to the US later this month to play a rare a solo show at the Bridge School Benefit Concert at the Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre (October 26-27). [from nme.com]