Thom Yorke, the sexiest vegetarian?

Cast your vote today for the "Sexiest Vegetarians Alive" [thanks Braden]

Radiohead at Glastonbury

Radiohead played the Glastonbury Festival last night. The setlist is available in the gigography.

Flaming Lips Vs. Radiohead: Knives Out

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."

Ed on Trade Justice Movement

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]

Radiohead in BANG Magazine

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

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.

Details on Radiohead/Sigur Ros Ballet

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]

Reminder: Auburn/Seattle tickets

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]

Morning becomes Eclectic

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]

Reviews

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'

Radiohead at Rock Werchter

Radiohead played the Rock Werchter Festival last night. The setlist is available in the gigography.

Colin celebrates birthday at Rock Werchter

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.

Hail to the Thief review

Radiohead received the title album of the week for HTTT at ripitup.com.au under the rhythm section category. [thanks Scott]

Glastonbury 2003 broadcast

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 - HTTT

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

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

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

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 Festival setlist

Some delay, but the Hurricane Festival Setlist is available in the gigography.

Jonny Greenwood on 101XFM show

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]

'Hail to the Thief' Reviews

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

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

There's a small interview with Jonny Greenwood at Nuvo Magazine [thanks Candace]

Thom & Jonny acoustic set to be broadcast

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]

Anoter batch of W.a.s.t.e tickets on sale now

Hurry up: http://bigtickets.waste.uk.com

Saturday reviews, interviews

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's True Love Waits is featured. [thanks Shawn & Sumeet]

North American tickets on sale

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.

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.

Charts: Canada & Australia

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]

Werchter webcast

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]

Friday reviews & more

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]

Radiohead at Southside Festival

Radiohead played at the Southside Festival in Germany, available through audio and video webcast. The setlist is available in the gigography.

Thursday reviews & interviews

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

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

German site www.dasding.de will broadcast a live videostream from the entire Hurricane festival, including Radiohead at 23.30 CET.

'Hail to the Thief' enters at No. 3 in US Chart

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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]

New 'Hail to the Thief' reviews

Hail to the Thief reviews: LA Weekly, Information, Politiken, Berlingske Tidende & Shaking Through. [thanks Peter, David]

Correction: 2$ show tonight

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 announced

We've had the first leg of the North American tour only 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

National Post on Warner Chappel issues

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

Ok, where do we start today? Here, Dutch magazine 'Man' has an 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

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]

Christopher O'Riley tour dates

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.

Radiohead at the Hultsfred Festival

Radiohead played at the Hultsfred Festival last night. 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]

Friday's press

In the Netherlands, newpapers Dagblad van het Noorden & 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 keptlooping periodically.

[thanks Hans, Mylene, Kevin, Rhys, Tom, Ed, Sean,Aqutiv]

HTTT: The last Radiohead album?

“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 recordt his 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 thefuture.

“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]

North American tour confirmed

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.

More Hail to the Thief reviews

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]

Access Magazine interview and more reviews

Access Magazine have
an interview
with Phil as well as a review of Hail to the Thief online. Nudeas
the News, TheDaily
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

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

As reported earlier Radiohead were rumoured toplay at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto onAugust 16th. This has now been confirmed by thevenue [thanks Tammy, Mitch, Tyler & Ryan]

Radiohead back push for trade justice

Radiohead are backing the Trade Justice Movement's campaign for fairer rules
governing international trade. The band are supporting 'Scale Up for TradeJustice',
a national action to lobby all the UK's 659 MPs in their local constituencies
over a 24hour 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 TradeJustice 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 TradeJustice
Movement website where you can also find out about local lobbying events
on 27/28 June.

'7 Television Commercials' out on DVD

Capitol Records Canada have '7 Television Commercials' listed for a DVD release on August 5th. [thanksKallen]

Press

Netherlands: De Volkskrant hasa Hail to The Thief review.

Germany: Hail to the Thief review in Tagesspiegel,
Interview with Colin and Phil in Intromagazine
(with audio).

USA: Hail to the Thief review at IGN.com,
ChicagoSun
Times. Nude as the News: FieldDay
Review

Canada: Hour.ca
have an interview with Jonny Greenwood

UK: Thom on Tom at BBC6 Music online.



[thanks Andy, SttM, John, Jake]

New string quartet tribute

Amazon.com 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

MTV
UK has 9 songs from Radiohead's Shepherd's Bush gig in London for download.
[thanks stonecutter2]

Win a Hail to the Tief Vespa

Enter for your chance to win a one of a kind Vespa courtesy of FilterMagazine,
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 canalso enter at participating Vespa and Diesel retailers.Check
websites for a store nearest you. [ThanksCharles]



Theres a competition to win a1.5m sq print oft he 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]

Jonng Greenwood audio interview

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

'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, continuesselling 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

The DailyIowan
have a Hail to the Thief review online.The PhilidelphianEnquirer
& TheOnion
have one as well. An excerpt of theThom Yorke interview for RollingStone
is available. And on another note, Radiohead's Creep is listed #84 in VH1's
top 100 songs ofthe past 25 years. [thanks Conny, Milosz, Chris, Bishr, Martin
& Richard]

CFOX announce Vancouver show

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 the30th, 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

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

More online stuff: Radiohead's session and interviewat Colin's house last night plus a feature onRadiohead producer Nigel Godrich are availableat the LamacqLive archive.



An interviewwith Thom is available at the Toronto Star,who als a have review of the Beacon Theatre show. German e-zineAlternativeNation have a Hail to the Thief review. AndVH1 review Radiohead's performance at the FieldDay Festival. [thanks Richard, Ben]

Christopher O'Riley interviews

HailTo The Thief is now released in North America.But, as you all know, ChristopherO'Riley has released his Classical Radioheadtribute 'TrueLove Waits' today. German/Austrian webzine'Noize' had an interview(in english) with Chris online. They also havea reviewof 'True Love Waits' (in german) and one for'Hailto the Thief' as well.



There's more: Canada's NationalPost have a very nice interview with ChristopherO'Riley. CTNow have an interviewas well as the OakPark newspaper. SunTimes.comreviewed True Love Waits. And OCRegister.comreview Christopher's perfomance with the PacificSymphony.

Pitchfork: Hail to the Thief: 9.3

Hail to the Thief doesn't dig up Britpop skeletonsfrom The Bends, and it's not OK Computer 2, asYorke has called it in the press. It is, however,a holding pattern. Thom's excusatory remarks onlyunderscore his chief failing: he can't grasp thatpure, radical change isn't always the best option,whatever personal pride he as an artist takesfrom doing something "new" (and personally,I think Eno and his German collaborators fromthe late 70s have plenty of reasons to bristleat Kid A). There's nothing to apologize for here:Radiohead are a band, and after a fashion, bandsare defined by their music. Much as U2's Zooropastill sounded like U2, anything Radiohead doesfrom here on out will sound like Radiohead.



That's one paragraph from the Pitchforkmedia.comreview. Read it in full at Pitchfork.

Not kidding: TinyMixTapes review

On April 1st, TinyMixTapes.comhad the first Hail To The Thief review. A niceread actually.. well, for those who look at theircalendar regularly. Anyway, the album's out nowand TMT have a proper reviewonline now. (oh, they were nice enough toput that April Fools review back up)

XFM 'Hail to the Thief' section

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.

'Hail to the Thief' out today... more reviews

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

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

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!"supposed to be four insertions for the ad. [Thanks Ben]

Radiohead ad censored in Singapore

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 want young blood. 6691-2033." Readers were invited to call the number for a preview of There There. EMI Singapore, which distributes the album, did not agree to removing the last two lines in the ad and putting the song title, We Suck Young Blood, in quotes. An EMI spokesman said: "We felt that the ad would lose its essence if the changes were made." The ad, which originated from the UK, ran on May 28 was discontinued. There were supposed to be four insertions for the ad. [Thanks Ben]

New Radiohead.com & Radiohead.tv

The new Radiohead.com has been launched today: "hello and welcome to a new radiohead website. this is an appendix to HAIL TO THE THIEF. here you will find pictures, words, and a few other things we've been concocting. we have made some stuff in flash too.
because the record was made in unusually fast los angeles/oxford time we have made the website out of remaindered stock that we have discovered in dusty sketchbooks and unerased files on lonely computers. there is some much more fast-moving work on radiohead.tv, which is launching as soon as we can get it together.

Reviews, Interviews, etc.

New York Times have reviewed Radiohead's Hail To The Thief. The story as available at the NY Times website or here. The Times also reviewed Christopher O'Riley's Radiohead tribute 'True Love Waits' (Times or here) and the Field Day Festival. Then the Los Angeles Times. They have a Hail To The Thief review, Beacon Theatre review and a Christopher O'Riley interview.

An announcement on Christopher O'Riley's appearance at Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz. The SF Gate have an interview with Chris as well.

For another Field Day review check out Newsday.com.

Oh, check out this comic strip at NataliePortman.com featuring Radiohead
[thanks Keith, David, Kevin, Carlyn, Darren, Ronen and Chris]

More MTV appearances

MTV2 UK and Ireland will be showing a Radiohead videography on Tuesday night (10th) at 9:00pm which is also being repeated on Friday night, at 8:00pm and saturday night 8:30pm if you miss it!

On Saturday (14th) MTV2 UK& Ireland will also be showing (again...)...the "Radiohead Backstage Live", " Radiohead live at Shepards Bush, followed by the Radiohead Videography. Which is then followed by Radiohead Live in Paris! "Radiohead performing the best of 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac' to an enthusiastic crowd - beautifully shot and played to perfection." [thanks Vici]

Radiohead at Field Day Festival

So the festival finally took place at the Giants Stadium last night.. The relocated festival featured Radiohead performing a full live set. The band even played a four song encore, which resulted in a grand total of 23 songs. There was a second encore on the setlist, but 'I Will' did not get played. Full setlist in the gigography. Next gig will be at the Hulstfred Festival in Sweden on June 13th.

HTTT Listening party + MPIE screening

There's a listening party in Nashville, Tennessee, USA at the Belcourt Theater at 9:30 PM on June 9th. In addition to listening to the new album, attendees will be able to watch a free screening of Meeting People Is Easy. [thanks Robert]

There's another Hail To The Thief release party in Madrid, Spain on Friday June 13th, at 22hours c/ Fomento, 30. Madrid. Spain. [thanks Jose]

Radiohead on MTV2, London show on MTV UK, Ireland & Germany

Sunday Night the 8th at 10pm USA Eastern time, MTV2 will broadcast 'Radiohead Definitive'. They will be showing all of Radiohead's music video's from their early 'Creep' video to their new single 'There There'. [thanks Justin]

Don't forget Sunday's broadcast on MTV UK & Ireland where the Shepherd's Bush gig will be broadcast from 7:30 till 9:00 [thanks Sam]

MTV Germany will broadcast a 90 minute special about Radiohead on Monday at midnight. It will include an interview with Thom and part of the live show which was taped at Sheperd's Bush. The videos that will be shown are "Creep", "Karma police" and "There there". [thanks Daniel]

Review of HTTT artwork exhibition opening

Last night the 'Hail to the Thief' artwork exhibition opened at London's Virgin Megastore at Oxford Street. The exhibition on Virgin's first floor displayed a lot of the Hail To The Thief artwork made by Stanley Donwood. Ken wrote a review, available in the press archive.

Hail to the Thief reviews

More and more reviews are coming in. Some of them are compiled in the press archive to see what the press think of 'Hail To The Thief'. There are some more reviews of the new album and the gigs added for the New York Beacon Theatre gig. And you can find some online at Newsday.com, Music-Critic.com, Dotmusic.com, Winnipeg Sun and at newyorkdailynews.com.

And Thom Yorke is on the cover of this week's French magazine Telerama. [thanks Denise, Sumeet, nobodyknows, Mylene & Keith]

Hail to the Thief was even discussed on BBC's Newsnight: After the shows introduction hyped 'Hail To The Thief' as an anti-American album, Paul Morley said that it was in fact "anti-Mediocrity, not anti-American". Nitin Sawhney, nominee at the 2000 Technics Mercury Music Prize, called the album "an album of expression" and a "diary of the times". Playwright Bonnie Greer, who had never heard of Radiohead before she was asked to review Hail to the Thief, called the album "amazing" and Said that she is "so grateful that this band are in the world". [thanks Ricci]

W.a.s.t.e. tickets for relocated Field Day Festival

W.a.s.t.e has secured fantastic tickets for sale for the relocated Field Day festival - now happening at the Giants Stadium on June the 7th. Please go to www.fielddayfest.com for all updated information.

We have secured the best tickets in the house for the fanbase.... The ticket shop can be found via www.waste.uk.com (click on the New York Ticket Sales and Info).

All customers with original tickets (be they one day tickets or two day tickets with or without camping) will have tickets automatically transferred to the new venue, where they can be picked up on the day. For these customers please be aware that you should arrive as early as possible at the venue to collect your tickets to avoid delay. To help us out on the day please bring details of your original order and ID.

Any customers now not able to go to the show due to the relocation should e-mail radioheadtickets@rlc.net for a full refund. Please include your original order number in your e-mail for speed and accuracy.

Radiohead rhapsodies

Here are some bits and pieces from an interview with Christopher O'Riley for the Boston Herald.
Christopher O'Riley loves Radiohead. Only love may not be a strong enough word. "Go ahead and say it,'' O'Riley says when asked about his fascination with the English band. "Obsessive. There should be a life somewhere, right? It's really the only music I listen to when I'm not listening for work.''

Now O'Riley brings together the unlikely combination of his classical piano chops and the music of Radiohead on ``True Love Waits: Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead.'' It arrives in stores Tuesday, not coincidentally the release day of Radiohead's new "Hail To the Thief.''

The CD consists of O'Riley playing his own solo piano versions of 15 Radiohead songs drawn from the group's five albums and live EP. It's the only classical album ever to earn a four-star rating from Rolling Stone (Billy Joel's ``Fantasies and Delusions'' managed only 2).

Once O'Riley had a dozen transcriptions finished, he performed a Radiohead recital on NPR's "Performance Today.'' Radiohead fans quickly made the show available via the Internet, sparking interest both in O'Riley and classical music.

"I had Radiohead fans writing me saying, `I see you're playing Mozart and I've always wondered what Mozart's about,' '' O'Riley says. ``It's like all of a sudden they had a friend in the business. Now there's a whole dialogue going on.

"The Radiohead fanboard I've been on most often is called ateaseweb.com, where you'll find 200 Radiohead fans chatting away at any given time of day. People will say, `I know you're into Radiohead. What would you recommend?' I go to some of the music that Radiohead has drawn on, like (Olivier) Messiaen. A song on their new record called `Sail to the Moon' is almost an homage to the violin, cello and piano movement in Messiaen's Quartet. It starts out with this bell-like set of chords.''

There's a full story available at BostonHerald.com.

Radiohead's Beacon Theatre 2$ bill show

Radiohead played a full live set last night at the Beacon Theatre. The show was broadcast through a large number of Famous Players Cinemas in North America and it will air on MTV2 on June 17th. The setlist (including True Love Waits) is available in the gigography. [thanks Matthew]

Colin, Ed & Phil on Gary Crowley show

There's going to be an interview/HTTT playback with Colin, Ed and Phil will be on Gary Crowley's show at 6pm this Saturday on BBC london (94.9FM and online at www.bbc.co.uk/london). [thanks Helene]

Press release: Field Day Festival still on

The Field Day Music Festival has been reconfirmed as a one-day event this Saturday, June 7 Giants Stadium. RADIOHEAD, BEASTIE BOYS, BECK, BLUR, UNDERWORLD, SPIRITUALIZED, ELLIOTT SMITH, LIZ PHAIR, BRIGHT EYES and more have all been confirmed to appear at the new date and location. Keep checking fielddayfest.com for up-to-the-minute updates on the reconfirming lineup.

All tickets purchased for the Calverton festival will be AUTOMATICALLY REFUNDED to the credit card on which they were purchased (including Ticketmaster per ticket convenience fee). It is not necessary to contact Ticketmaster.

NO CALVERTON TICKETS WILL BE HONORED AT GIANTS STADIUM. EVERYONE WHO WISHES TO ATTEND FIELD DAY AT GIANTS STADIUM THIS SATURDAY MUST PURCHASE A TICKET SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT SHOW.

Tickets for the Giants Stadium concert will go on sale today, Wednesday June 4 at 5:00 p.m. Tickets will be available through ticketmaster.com and all ticketmaster retail outlets, as well as at fielddayfest.com. Tickets will not be available through Ticketmaster charge by phone.

Tickets purchased online can be printed at home through the Ticketmaster TicketFast system. Remaining tickets will also be on sale at the Continental Airlines Arena box office beginning Thursday, June 5th at 11:00 a.m. Parking will open Saturday at 8:00 a.m. Giants Stadium doors open at 10:30 a.m. The show will begin at 12 Noon.

Please note that as a special service to W.A.S.T.E customers, all tickets bought through waste.uk.com will be handled differently than those purchased through Ticketmaster. All ticket orders for the original Field Day Music Festival purchased through W.A.S.T.E will automatically be transferred to the one-day event tickets at Giants Stadium. We will automatically refund any difference in face value paid and will randomly assign seats based on our allocation.

All tickets secured through W.A.S.T.E Ticketing will be made available day of show at the venue's WILL CALL box office. Please arrive early to pick up your tickets and make sure you bring your confirmation email and picture id. Another e-mail will be sent to you tomorrow with further details about picking up your tickets.

Hail to the Thief artwork exhibition

To celebrate the release of the eagerly awaited Radiohead album Hail to the Thief, Virgin Megastores are holding an exhibition of the original artwork from the album. Eight pieces of artwork each 1.5m2 will be exhibited from Friday 6th June at Virgin Megastores, Oxford Street. This will also be the first time that the new album will be played in its entirety.

Radiohead’s latest musical feat was largely conceived in 2001, around the birth of lead singer, Thom Yorke’s first child. Surrounded by both the idyllic beauty of his rural home and the daily radio reports of the global conflicts, Yorke began to express his thoughts by writing songs. This contemplative alternation between peace, anger and foreboding colours much of the album.

The artwork was designed by Stanley Donwood, Stanley took his inspiration from not only discovering what was inside the band heads at that time but also from where they were based when recording the album – L.A.

Radiohead co-host show on BBC Radio Ulster

Colin Greenwood and Ed O' Brien from Radiohead have recorded a special version of the Across The Line show for BBC Radio Ulster. The pair will co-present the music programme, due for broadcast on Friday June 6, between 10pm and 11.00 pm.

Colin and Ed met up with the regular Friday presenter, Stuart Bailie, during their recent visit to Belfast. As well as previewing tracks from their new album, 'Hail To The Thief', they have selected some of their favourite tracks.

In the course of the show, the band recount their adventures in Los Angeles which birthed 'Hail To The Thief'. They reveal a fondness for Latin American music and an affinity with the Ulster singer-songwriter Neil Hannon.

Across The Line, BBC Radio Ulster, 92-95 FM, 1341 MW * NTL channel 871 * Sky Digital 868.

ACCROSS THE LINE PLAYLIST
Radiohead - There There
The Divine Comedy - Victoria Falls
Beck - Lost Cause
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Radiohead - Sail To The moon
The Pixies - Caribou
Scott Walker - Big Louise
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Agua De Beber
Four Tet - She Moves She
Glen Campbell - Gentle On My Mind
Radiohead - Wolf At The Door

Thom & Jonny at Electric Lady Studios

Thom & Jonny performed two sessions of an acoustic set at Electric Lady studios for about 75 people. It was so moving, that Thom appeared to have a few tears and went backstage for a moment. It was very emotional, very powerful. "I Will" was a thrill to hear as well.

The second session had an encore with Neil Young's 'After The Goldrush'– False start, Thom kicks Jonny off stage, doesn’t allow him to play along with it promising he’ll let him back to play another one. Thom stops in middle of the song, starts again saying “ I AM gonna finish it!” After he is done, person in crowd yells, “Saved us some time… You missed the Getting High verse!” Thom replies, “Never get the lyrics off the internet and not bother to look at them before the show…”

At the end of the perfromance there was a Q&A with the full band. They all were in high spirits, and dang it if Thom wasn't smiling broadly. The only negative part was the lack of interesting questions, and the mic hogs. Unfortunately people felt they should stay on the mic and drag on the questions. The Band confirmed Stephen Malkmus for first half of North American Tour and Supergrass for the 2nd Leg. Bothe setlists are available in the gigography. [thanks sensitiveeyes, chris & patrick]

Press, press, press

Netherlands: The June issue ALOHA issue of has a 4 page interview with Ed and Jonny. Today's newspaper 'Volkskrant' have Thom on the cover of the arts supplement and an interview with him on the next two
pages. [thanks Mieke]

UK: There's a HTTT review in Time Out London and The Telegraph wonder if Radiohead are still the best. [thanks Rob, Scottie]

Canada: The Toronto Star have an interview online with Ed
O'Brien as well as a review of Hail to the Thief. There is a 5 part series in Canadian National Newspaper, The National Post (under "arts and life") this week on Radiohead and all of their albums. An interview with Jonny can be found in this week's edition of the Hour (Montreal). [thanks Dan, MV & RadioRedhead]

Germany: There's an interview with Phil and Colin in the German magazine Kultur
News. [thanks Maja]

W/C: This one's optimistic

Radiohead's management have said that the situation regarding Warner Chappell has now been resolved. Warner Chappell will be issuing yearly free licenses from now on allowing all the fan websites, like ateaseweb.com to use lyrics as before. Letters will be going out detailing this in the next few days.
At the moment Warner Chappell have not contacted ateaseweb.com on the license. The last e-mail from Mr. Olsen at Warner Chappell included the following:

Due to some of the backlash that has resulted from the e-mails I sent out yesterday, I will be having a telephone conference call later this morning with the Managing Director of our London office and the head of our Business Affairs Dept. Given the reasonable nature of your request, I will ask this group for their opinion and potential approve so you can legally do what you have asked to do.

In the meantime there are some stories available on the web regarding this matter. Besides the earlier reported story from Internet Magazine (UK), there are some available at 3voor12.nl (Netherlands), Laut.de (Germany), Canoe.ca (Canada), Dagensskiva.com (Sweden) & Webwereld.nl (Netherlands), home.nl (Netherlands), Journal Du Net (France), FD Centre, Europemedia.net & Pitchfork Media (USA) LawMeme (USA).

Field Day Festival to move to Giants Stadium

The Riverhead Town Supervisor Robert Kozakiewicz announced this morning that a two-day rock concert, the Field Day Festival, scheduled for this weekend in Calverton would not happen. Soon after, Ticketmaster was advertising on its web site that the event had been scaled down to a one-day show and would be held at Giants Stadium Saturday.

A Giants Stadium spokesperson said that although negotions have taken place, no deal has been reached. The change of venue was not confirmed by the concert's promoters.

Ticketmaster's web site said the new show would include Radiohead and the Beastie Boys, but did not make clear how many of the 35 other bands originally booked for the show would be part of the 12-hour concert. Tickets for the show were to go on sale at 5 p.m. through Ticketmaster.com, according to the ticket web site.

Tickets for the Calverton show will not be honored at Giants Stadium and people who initially purchased their tickets with a credit card online or by phone will receive an automatic refund on their credit card, according to Ticketmaster. Those who purchased them in other ways must return their tickets at the point of purchase for a refund.

Promoters today were hustling to find a new venue after the Suffolk officials declared that the concert would not be allowed on the East End as had been proposed. "In the interest of the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the Town of Riverhead and the public, I believe that the event should be cancelled," Kozakiewicz said in a prepared statement. [from newsday, thanks to a lot of you;) ]

Billboard have an article online as well.

Jonny Greenwood interview on 3voor12FM

An interview with Jonny Greenwood will be broadcast on Tuesday on Radio 3FM (Netherlands). Listen 3voor12FM between 22:00 and 23:00 hrs. An extended version of the interview will be broadcast the next day on internet radio show Dubbel Check. Also available through 3voor12.nl

Radiohead have difficulties finding venue in Illinois

On Chicago radio program Soundopinions (93.1 WXRT 3 June 2003) Greg Kot (Chicago Tribune) and Jim DeRogatis (Chicago Sun-Times) explained that Radiohead was trying to book a concert at Hutchinson Field in Grant Park like the one given in 2001. Unfortunately the City of Chicago wont grant a permit (no reason given) and so Radiohead is checking out other venues like Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI (20 miles from IL boarder) for a late Aug. concert. [thanks AJ]

The band who stole the world

Panic attacks, terror alerts, a looming darkness on the horizon, and everything you thought you knew about life slowly fracturing and coming undone — this could quite possibly be the end of the world. Or it could just mean that Radiohead is finally back. CMJ have a Radiohead feature online at CMJ.com, which includes an interview with Phil.

Radiohead features, articles and interviews

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