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Julian Arguelles to play on LP6?

In an interview on BBC Radio 3 with Colin Towns who runs Provocateur Records (jazz label), he said that Julian Arguelles (a UK jazz sax player) was going to appear on the next Radiohead album.You can playback the interview at bbc.co.uk/radio3 : "private passions" - was in the last quarter of the program. [thanks Mark]

[Posted by adriaan at 05:37 PM, November 29, 2002]

Mark Owen

In tonight's episode of (UK) Celebrity Big Brother, comedienne Sue Perkins asked Mark Owen (of Take That fame) to "sing us something lovely". Mark obliged by picking up the guitar and knocking out the closing bars of Street Spirit, complete with "fade out again" vocals. At last - Take That sing a decent song! [thanks Bruce]

[Posted by adriaan at 05:36 PM, November 29, 2002]

Radiohead: Good Samaritans

Radiohead are backing a new Samaritans counselling service, which lets people email in, totally anonymously, with their problems. The idea is to target teenagers, especially young men, who have trouble talking through their feelings on the phone. The band's drummer, Phil Selway, has been a volunteer for years. He says we all may need the Samaritans at some point in our life, particularly with recent figures out: "There are some alarming statistics. I think it's the World Health Organisation that say by 2020 they think the biggest killer will be depression. So you have those very stark figures and then you suddenly think..." "Something like the Samaritans which is talking about getting feelings out into the open and actually looking for emotional support - well, suddenly it has a very important role in community and our society."The band have also donated a live track and video to the Samaritans website. [from bbc, xfm
& nme,
thanks adam, jay, matthew]

[Posted by adriaan at 05:39 PM, November 28, 2002]

Ed O'brien/ADF collaboration released

Ed o'brien plays guitar on Asian Dub Foundations "enemy of the enemy". The track is available on the band's "FORTRESS EUROPE EP", released on October 30th (Labels, DiNSD 253/7243 5 48796 0 5). This is a limited edtion EP. The band will release a full album in January, which might include more tracks with Ed. [thanks jurgen]

[Posted by adriaan at 05:31 PM, November 16, 2002]

Beck & Flaming Lips cover Radiohead

At the Beck and Flaming Lips concert on nov. 14 in fort worth they did a cover of "Creep". After playing "Loser" Beck talked about how some artists don't like to play their first big hit because they feel they're past it. "but i still feel like it's still a part of you" he said or something like that. Then wayne told beck how he recently saw radiohead and they refused to played creep and they talked about radiohead for a little bit. Beck stopped in the middle of "already dead" and started playing creep, the lips joined in and they played a wonderful rendition to the delite of everyone there. After that wayne told beck that radiohead doesn't have to play creep anymore cos beck can do it for them. The Flaming Lips have covered 'Knives Out' on their recent live shows (A very different version with no guitar. They also changed the rythmn of the song, which was driven by more of a "trip-hop" drum beat and chords being played on the keyboard. As well as Moby who plays Creep pretty often lately [thanks chris, greg, allison, jeff, roy, marc]

[Posted by adriaan at 05:30 PM, November 15, 2002]

Radiohead in Q

Check out this month's Q magazine for an interview with Thom, Ed & Nigel. You can read it here. [thanks Thor & Matthew]

[Posted by adriaan at 05:33 PM, November 12, 2002]

Tom Petty and Radiohead

Tom Petty, who has two grown daughters and a nine-year-old stepson, tells LAUNCH that they bond over music. "What's interesting about my girls right now is they seem to be going back and finding the older stuff. I have one that's just discovered Muddy Waters and thinks he's great, and they have very eclectic tastes. They're all over the map but, sure, they play me stuff. They turned me on to Radiohead several years ago." [thanks Gary]

[Posted by adriaan at 05:30 PM, November 12, 2002]

Badly Drawn Boy

Radiohead were mentioned in this article.. (yeah, news is slow lately): An assignment earlier this year helped to focus Damon Gough's vision for Have You Fed the Fish? In April, Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack to the film About A Boy was released. "It's an unusual circumstance to me, and to anybody really - to be releasing two completely different projects in the same year. Radiohead did something like that with Amnesiac and Kid A, but that was kind of like the same
project split into two halves. This is totally two different things, different mindsets." [full story, thanks JSN]

[Posted by adriaan at 05:29 PM, November 11, 2002]

The Next Radiohead

Here's another article about who the "next Radiohead" is; this time it's Scottish band Idlewild. The writer doesn't seem to have a very good grasp of what Radiohead is all about, but makes a couple of interesting arguments. For instance: "Five years after OK Computer was released, Radiohead is now the band that killed British rock." Check it out [thanks J. Kelly]

[Posted by adriaan at 05:27 PM, November 10, 2002]

Vote for Radiohead

It's time to start voting for your Artist of the Year. Cast your vote to decide the winner of this coveted award, and you too could be in with a chance of winning. Prizes include 5 pairs of tickets for the Interactive Music Awards Party and one pair of tickets to the celeb-packed Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. Click HERE to place your vote for Radiohead.

[Posted by adriaan at 05:25 PM, November 08, 2002]

Radiohead Mix CD

At the moment there's a a Radiohead Mix CD floating around that sounds like it was done using all vinyl and plays more like a hip hop "pause tape" than a club dj mix. The scratching and mix's are excellent as the
artist crossfades between live versions of songs into regular (jonnys signature creep part is replaced by record scratching over the acoustic version of 'creep'), uses a lot of effects (chaos pad-esque), uses b sides, and even fakes people out with an old 60's psych band J.K. & Co.'s 'Fly' since it sounds so much like Thom. Early electronic genius Raymond Scott is also scattered throughout it. The CD has the Minotaur logo on the cover and only leaves an inconspicuous email address, hoarserotorvator@yahoo.com, that i imagine would do mail orders.

[Posted by adriaan at 05:22 PM, November 05, 2002]

Happy Birthday Jonny

Today is Jonny Greenwood's 31st birthday. Have a good one..

[Posted by adriaan at 05:15 PM, November 05, 2002]

Thom's Bridge School performances all over the web

Thom Yorke's perfomances for the Bridge School Benefit, last weekend in Mountain View, has now been uploaded to the internet. Check the message board for addresses of file-sharers, hub's & ftp's.

[Posted by adriaan at 05:13 PM, November 02, 2002]

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