Ed O'Brien becomes a father

According to MTV, Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien and his girlfriend, Susan, are the proud parents of a new son, Salvador O'Brien. The couple returned from a hospital in England on January 26 with the nine-pound baby, their first. [thanks Cristina]

Radiohead in Montreux on Norwegian TV

Norwegian television channel NRK1 will broadcast "Radiohead in Montreux" tonight at 00.35 CET. [thanks Magne]

Bodysong, MPIE and Radiohead.tv on Belgian Festival

Jigsaw circus, an international music video festival, will show Simon Pummel's 'Bodysong', Grant Gee's 'Meeting People Is Easy' and The Greatest Lying mouth of all time (aka Radiohead.tv)

The festival will be held in Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels from 11 - 18 February with directors Simon Pummel and Grant Gee as guests. [thanks Peter]

Radiohead tribute band: Irish dates

Radiohead tribute band, Pirate Radiohead, will be playing 3 dates in Ireland next week. The band will be playing 2 hours of Radiohead songs in Limerick, Galway and Dublin.

Thursday February 5th: Dolans, Dock Road, Limerick [€ 10]
Friday February 6th: Cuba, Eyre Square, Galway [€ 10]
Sunday February 8th: Eamon Dorans, 3a Crown Alley, Temple Bar, Dublin [€ 8]

Guardian: NME Awards for RH politics, not their music

As Radiohead pick up five NME nominations, Guardian journalist Caroline Sullivan reckons it has more to do with their politics than their music: "Why does no one ever address the fact that their actual music is lumpen, ponderous and unlistenable? Like those leather-bound Shakespeare sets most people buy their CDs not to play but to leave on display to impress friends". [full story]

'2+2=5' from Belfort Festival on Japan CD

As reported earlier, Radiohead will release a tour CD in Japan including a special video of '2+2=5'. It turns out that the video will be the one recorded at the Belfort Festival in France last summer.

Radiohead lead NME Awards nominations

This year’s NME Awards are just a few weeks away, with the party of the year scheduled to take place in London on February 12. Leading the nominations are Radiohead with a staggering five nominations. The release of ‘Hail To The Thief’, nominated for Best Album, saw Radiohead move back towards the mainstream last year. Comeback single ‘There There’ is up for Best Single and Best Video, and Radiohead are also nominated for Best Live Band and Best UK Band. [from nme, thanks simon]

Montreux concert broadcast on Chilian TV

Chilean Channel 'VIA X' will broadcast Radiohead's show at the Montreux Festival tonight. It's a bit of a last minute annoucement but the show will be repeated on Friday January 30th. [thanks Rod]

'2+2=5' to be included on Brit Awards CD

Radiohead's '2+2=5' will be released on 'Brit Awards 2004'. The track is included on the 2CD, which will hit the stores on February 9th.

Radiohead on MTV Netherlands

Radiohead are on MTV Netherlands tonight. Vague as MTV always is, we have no clue what kind of show it is, but it will be broadcast tonight, an hour after midnight.

DJ Tiësto's Street Spirit remix stolen

A cd with a DJ Tiësto remix of Radiohead's 'Street Spirit' has been stolen in Belgium this week. DJ Tiësto remixed 'Street Spirit' in 2003 and was played on his DJ Sets all over the world. A friend of the DJ, Cor Fijneman, was doing a club set in Belgium when the cd was stolen. Fijneman was very angry, talking on his weblog; "Of course, this track will shortly appear on the internet, which will take away the exclusivity of the track" [thanks Milan]

Radiohead featured on another Mehldau release

Radiohead are yet again included on a release by Brad Mehldau. The jazz pianist will release a new album on February 24th. 'Anything Goes' featuring Radiohead's 'Everything in its right place'. The opening track from 'Kid A' has previously been performed on live shows by the Brad Mehldau Trio, including a session for radio station KCRW. Previous Mehldau releases featured cover versions of 'Exit Music (for a film)' and 'Paranoid Android'.

Coachella ticket information

According to Capitol Records, you have only 1 chance to see Radiohead in North America during 2004, which is the earlier reported Coachella festival. Radiohead will be headlining Saturday, May 1 of the 2-day Coachella Music and Arts Festival in southern California.

Tickets for the festival go on sale February 14th, 2004 at Noon. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster charge-by-phone lines at (213) 480-3232, at all Ticketmaster retail ticket centers or via ticketmaster.com.

General admission tickets for each day are priced at $75.00 per day, with a limited amount of 2-day tickets available for $140.00 plus $1 per day for charity. In the Coachella festival tradition, there is free parking and the doors to the venue will open at noon on both days. Parking lots open at 9:00 AM. For info: coachella.com

Bodysong DVD out next month

The award winning documentary Bodysong will be released in the UK on February 16th 2004 on DVD through VCI.

Besides the documentary and the Jonny Greenwood score it will have special feautures including 2 short films by director Simon Pummell, weblinks and an exclusive interview with Jonny regarding the writing and recording of the score. DVD sleeve is designed by Graham Temple.

Radiohead DVD released on April 19th

As previously report Radiohead will release their third DVD, entitled 'RADIOHEAD:TV DVD'. The UK release date has now been set for April 19th. The DVD will not only contain Radiohead.tv episodes, but also videos and live footage.

Ed O'Brien interview at Alternative Nation

Check out alternativenation.de for an interview with Ed O'Brien. Be warned, it's in German. So, if you speak the language, have a read. If you don't, you can always have fun with sentences like this one: "Lasst uns einfach machen, wir versuchen immer, das Beste aus uns fünf rauszuholen." Non?

Pre-concert talk by Jonny at FUSELeeds04

As reported earlier, Jonny Greenwood will not perform at the West Yorkshire Playhouse at the FUSELeeds Festival. You already know that the concert features material composed by Jonny which will be played by the London Sinfonietta. However he will be giving a pre-concert talk that ticket holders can attend (first come first served on the 350 seats). Full listings for that gig can be found on: www.fuseleeds.org.uk.

HTTT #1 in Harvard Crimson, CD Times & Anthenaeum

Radiohead's 'Hail to the Thief' was number 1 in Harvard's Crimson: "Among the most frustrating proclamations of the Bush administration is their insistence that history will prove their actions justified. It takes no small measure of ego to make such a cocksure assertion. Yet I have no reserve in insisting that Hail to the Thief will be viewed, in the years to come, as the finest of Radiohead’s first six albums. With Thief, the band take a brief pause from their constant experimental momentum to release their version of a greatest hits record. “2+2=5” recalls the guitar-driven bravado of The Bends and the standout “We Suck Young Blood” envelops a classic Amnesiac sound with pleading anxiety. But the updated aesthetic of the band guarantees no simple hook is left untangled and no sterile melody left emotionless. Speaking of Bush, Yorke is onto the president’s sneaksy ways, crooning to his own son on “Sail to the Moon” of the potential misuses of power and generally tapping his inner paranoid android to give the album’s final tracks a cornered hostility. Finer words have been published about this album, but don’t bother looking for them—just give the record about a dozen chances and it will gradually steal your soul." [thanks Ben]

Hail To The Thief has also been voted the number 1 album of the year from all of the DVD forum users at cdtimes.co.uk [thanks Paul]

And it was the number 1 cd of the year in The Athenaeum, the student newspaper of Acadia University, in Wolfville, NS, Canada. [thanks Matt]

Radiohead: pop’s prophets?

PRESS RELEASE: Radiohead have sold millions of albums worldwide - yet most of their songs are more likely to have listeners reaching for the Prozac rather than dancing around their handbags. So why DO they strike a chord? Why do we love wallowing in misery and fear?

Café Style offers you the chance to consider whether Radiohead are just depressing wingers, or the natural heirs of the Biblical prophets? What is it about them that captures the contemporary mood, and how do they relate to Londoners looking for something more?

Featuring a Radiohead covers band and a talk by the Reverend Stephen Hance in a relaxed Cafe Style atmosphere, this is one Sunday night you won't want to stay at home cataloguing your CDs!

1st February, 6.30pm, Ascension Church, Malwood Road, Balham Hill, SW12 9EN [UK]

Rolling Stone: 'Radiohead best tour of 2003'

The Rolling Stone critics have voted last years Radiohead tour the best tour of 2003. The list published in Rolling Stone's latest issue (February 5th) has David Bowies 'A Reality Tour' at #2. [thanks Randy]

Interpol on Radiohead

In the latest issue of Spin magazine Paul Banks of Interpol was asked whose career he admires. his answer was REM and "Another band would be Radiohead, because they managed to go experimental and still be on the radio and debut at No.1 with 'Kid A'. That's an example of a band doing whatever the fuck they want and yet somehow managing to keep everyone's curiosity." [thanks Doug]

Japan tour CD out in March

Radiohead will release a new Japan Tour CD. The CD features 2+2=5 and 9 b-sides, previously released in the UK on the 'Hail to the Thief' singles. The Japan only CD will have an enhanced section containing a different version of '2+2=5', Ed Holdsworth's video of 'Sit Down. Stand Up' and an excerpt of Radiohead.tv.

Release date is March 24th and here's the tracklisting:

1. 2+2=5
2. Myxomatosis (Cristian Vogel Mix)
3. Paperbag Writer
4. Scatterbrain (Four Tet Remix)
5. I Will (LA Version)
6. I am Citizen Insane
7. Fog (Again)
8. Where Bluebirds Fly
9. I am a Wicked Child
10. Gagging Order

Lists, lists, lists... will it ever end?!

Radiohead's "The Bends" (#110), "OK Computer" (#162) and "Kid A" (#428) made it on Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 Albums of All Time.

'Hail to the Thief' is listed number 2 in Yale's list of best albums of 2003.

At New York City based Other Music, 'Hail to the Thief' was the #27 best selling cd for 2003.

In The Rattler, St. Mary's University's [San Antonio, TX], student run newspaper, 'Hail to the Thief' topped their list of best albums of 2003.

[thanks Anne, Lina, Chuck, Dale, Shinyu, Eddie, Matt, Ross, Kid A, Richard]

Full band version of Follow Me Around on Q's playlist

In the new February issue of Q magazine, Radiohead's 'Follow me around' is featured on their 'What's on our iPod' list.

This version is actually a 'full band' version produced by Radiohead fan Pawel Osmolski. The song was posted on the At Ease MB for the first time and has found its way on the internet.

Pawel, who posts on the message board as 'devilhood' says: "The mix started off as being an experiment, just to see what I could add to the KROQ performance. I figured that if it's just Thom and his acoustic, I could easily build something from that. Only Thoms vocals and acoustic guitar were left un-touched to a certain degree, I had to edit them so that it was at a set tempo. The whole mix was produced at home using a MIDI/Audio editing suite called Cubase SX2, I used Wavelab for mastering and a V-Amp effects pedal for guitar amp simulation."

Pawel recorded the mix for the fans: "I didn't expect it to become so popular, the feedback response I got from it was overwhelming and I very much appreciate all the comments and e-mails I have recieved because of it. If Thom gets round to hearing it and likes it, I'd hope that this would maybe inspire him to finish the track, either way I'm sure fans would love an official release of it, whether it's full-band or a live take."

At the moment Pawel Osmolski is working on a mix of 'Big Boots'. "I should probably have it finished in a couple of weeks or so. Unfortunately I don't have a vocal track to work with on this mix, but I'm hoping I'll find a work-around eventually."

Listen to new Follow me Around.

Acoustic Radiohead session on 3FM

Dutch radio station 3FM will broadcast an acoustic Radiohead session on Friday February 6th. Show will air from from 22:00 - 23:00 hrs. [thanks Gijs]

Jonny not performing at FuseLeeds04

Just for your information: Jonny Greenwood will not be performing at the Fuse festival in Leeds, but his new composition Smear will be premiered by the London Sinfonietta on Wednesday 3rd March at 8pm at the West Yorkshire Playhouse Quarry Theatre.

Organizers confirm Radiohead on Coachella

Organizers have now confirmed that Radiohead will headline the first night of the two-day Coachella music festival on May 1 in Indio, California. Coachella organizers are still finalizing contracts with dozens of other bands, including headliners for the festival's second day. [from vh1]

Radiohead Resists Time Off, Hits Studio

Despite being on a break, Radiohead has lately not been far from its Oxford, England-based studio. "I was in the Radiohead studio just a couple of hours ago," guitarist Jonny Greenwood told Billboard.com yesterday (Jan. 12). "[Drummer] Phil [Selway] was there drumming and recording and [lead singer] Thom [Yorke] has been in and out. We don't take time off very well. We're enjoying it still, so why just go home and do nothing?"

Beyond an eight-date tour of Australia and Japan that wraps April 27 in Melbourne and a heavily rumored appearance a few days later at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., the group has no concrete plans on the horizon, according to Greenwood

"I guess we're just going to record and work," he said. "We don't plan so far ahead anymore." It is unclear if the band considers the work it is doing in the studio as grist for the follow-up to last year's "Hail to the Thief," which debuted at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 822,600 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

One piece of music that won't be hitting the marketplace is the live soundtrack Radiohead provided in October for the world premiere of Merce Cunningham's "Split Sides" at the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Academy of Music. The piece is not scheduled to be performed again in 2004.

"It's just for the dancing and that's it," Greenwood says of the music. "It was important to us and we took it seriously. It was a privilege. What a man! [Cunningham] is inspiring. We went to his apartment in New York and he was demonstrating how he used a laptop to do the choreography, and he's in his 80s. He sat there using a [Macintosh] G4. Just to have not given up and keep changing is inspiring."

As previously reported, Greenwood's score for the film "Bodysong" will be released Feb. 24 in North America via Capitol. [from billboard]

Radiohead nominated for Brit Award

Radiohead are nominated at the Brit Awards for best British Group (together with Busted, The Coral, The Darkness and The Sugababes). Theband earned their first BRIT nomination in 1994, and were also nominated in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2002.

Radiohead confirmed for Coachella

Radiohead are confirmed to be headlining the Coachella Festival. "It's something we've talked about but I don't know if it is confirmed," Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood told Billboard.com this morning (Jan. 12) about the possibility of the band appearing at the event. Radiohead wraps an eight-date tour of Japan and Australia on April 27 in Melbourne. Fans can expect about 60 bands to descend on the sprawling venue over the course of two days. [from billboard, thanks Ryan]

#42?

'Hail To The Thief' has appeared in yet more end-of-year lists:

#6 in X-Ray's Top 50 Albums of the Year: "Thom Yorke actually has a sense of humour: X-Ray witnessed him laughing three times this summer. Indeed, everyone's favourite miserablists called this their "optimistic" album. "It shows a renewed faith in some kind of future," said bassist Colin Greenwood. And at one million sales so far, it's performing considerably better than any album since the four million-selling OK Computer. Things going a bit too well? Don't worry, Radiohead will soon stick a spoke in."

#9 in NME's Top 50 Albums of the Year: "Billed prior to release by that scamp Thom Yorke as 'OK Computer 2' and widely regarded as their political album, in reality - beyond the Bush-baiting title - neither really panned out. Instead, it was simply another great Radiohead album. Densely foreboding, 'Hail To The Thief' was equal parts sublime songwriting and electronic experimentation. It was no giant leap forward, but still more than enough. Best track: 'Where I End And You Begin'."

#10 in Bang magazine's Top 10 Albums of 2003: "The only thing wrong with this album was that it arrived 20 years too late to serve as a soundtrack for the film of George Orwell's 1984. Yorke's identification with Orwell's anti-hero Winston Smith was made explicit by the title '2+2=5' (the equation with which Party invigilator O'Brien showed to Winston his, and humanity's, impotence). A hymn for the passengers of a hijacked planet."

#12 in The Guardian Guide's Top 20 Albums of 2003: "Guitars! Less muttering! Jubilation was in the wind as Hail To The Thief emerged, jubilation that as time has passed has started to look slightly premature. Whatever, here was a record at least in parts adventurous and genuinely thrilling, even if perversity occasionally seemed to be lurking outside the door."

'There There' was also #6 in The Guardian Guide's Top 10 Singles of 2003.

[thanks Mark]

New concept: End-of-the year lists ;)

Here we go again: The University of Toronto's student newspaper, the Varsity, put HTTT, at #8 of their best of list for 2003.

In the Netherlands, Velvet Music voted Radiohead's Hail to the Thief as best album the past year. Same goes for Music Planet.

[thanks Craig, Gijs, Erwin]

Montreux show broadcast on Austrian radio

Austrian Radio Station FM4 will broadcast the Montreux Show tomorrow (Saturday January 10th) at midnight. [thanks Erich]

And even more 'End-of-the-year' lists...

In an end-of-year poll, the readers of the Danish music magazine Gaffa gave Radiohead second place in the categories "Foreign band of the year" and "Foreign album of the year" (Blur won both those categories), while Thom Yorke took third place in the "Foreign singer of the year" category , which was topped by David Bowie followed by John Mayer. Radiohead also took fourth place in the category "Foreign live artist of the year". [thanks Søren]

Radiohead come in at #1 in the Anemic Magazine's Top 50 albums of 2003. Radiohead also won 'band of the year' in the 2003 Anemic Awards.

Polish site www.porcys.com published their top ten albums of the year 2003. [thanks TaZ]

In the news tribune newspaper of Tacoma, Washington, there was a list on the
best live shows of the year, Radiohead was #1! [thanks melissa]

Moby's Creep online

There's a brief audio clip of Moby performing Creep on the NBC 'Late Night' website. Click! [thanks Kevin]

Bumping into Radiohead

From USA Today: "The perks of fame: The members of Switchfoot have now had occasion to meet several of their idols, including U2's Bono, whom Jon consulted about data.com, a Web site promoting awareness of African debt aid and trade. While recording Letdown, Jon and his bandmates also bumped into Radiohead — almost literally. "We went into what we thought was our studio, and Thom Yorke and the rest of the guys were there. I thought, 'This is so great: Radiohead is in our studio, hanging out.' In reality, they were tracking their own record. So I walk in, introduce myself, say 'What's going on?' They're obviously completely taken aback by this kid barging in and asking questions. I walked further in, and finally Thom Yorke comes up to me and says, 'I don't mean to be an idiot, but if you could please leave? It's a private studio.' He was very kind about it, though.""

Christopher O'Riley interview in Denver Post

Another interview with Christopher O'Riley is available in the Denver Post: ""I'm not trying to make a Schubert version of 'Karma Police,' but there's a resonance of those composers in Radiohead's music, and sometimes they come to the fore," O'Riley said. "Their songs are very tight, like a Schubert song. Or if you pick up a Mahler symphony, there are no weak tracks there. The same can be said of 'Kid A.' Radiohead's released material is of a consistently high level."" [read it in full]

Dance on Radiohead

Currently, there's a dance scheduled at the Joyce Theater, entitled "The Skin I'm In". The dance features music by Radiohead. A couple of reviews are available: Yahoo, NY times and AJC. Or check out the Joyce Theater website.

'RADIOHEAD: TV DVD' out in April

Radiohead are going to release a new DVD in April. So, ignore yesterday's September release story. The DVD will be titled: 'RADIOHEAD: TV DVD'. As the title suggests, it's very likely the DVD will contain episiodes from Radiohead.tv.

Dream on, Radiohead

John Sutherland wrote an article in Monday's G2 (media) section of The Guardian, regarding Thom Yorke's appearance as Today (BBC4) editor.: "The greater part of the last hour of the show (as one must now call it) was devoted to "the world's best hangover cure" - the "corpse reviver". Yorke was announced as about to contribute to this piffle. There was a row off-mike and a mid-programme apology was issued. Yorke, the mystified audience was informed, dissociated himself from excessive drinking.

Dream on, Radiohead." [thanks Peter]

Radiohead DVD in September?

According to French website rtl.fr, Radiohead will be releasing a DVD in September 2004. The site lists the major releases of this year. A DVD was previously rumoured to be released in April. Of course, anything's still possible. We'll have to wait and see. [thanks Mick]

Last 20 Loopholes on Radiohead.com

Message from W.a.s.t.e.: The final twenty of loopholes have gone up on radiohead.com today - thankyou very much to the hundreds and hundreds of people who entered tracks for the competition, we had a good laugh listening to them all, and also thanks to everyone who downloaded and listened someone else's track from the site, hopefully a few of them caught your ear. These last twenty will stay up for one month now, and then the Loophole site will be put to sleep. Thanks once again to everyone who put in so much hard work - the response was amazing.

Happy new year,
W.a.s.t.e.

Radiohead on MTV Netherlands

MTV Netherlands will broadcast MTV Live featuring Radiohead. The show, 'Radiohead 1 Hour Version' starts Thursday at midnight. Next show starts two hours later, but knowing MTV this doesn't mean this will be a 2 hour show. [thanks Cilia]

W.A.S.T.E. Merchandise sale

A lot of t-shirts and other merchandise can be found at the W.A.S.T.E. shop for discounted prices. Also, check out the new 'UK NOT OK' shirt in the new items department.

Tickets for FuseLeeds '04 w/ Jonny Greenwood on sale

Tickets for the Fuse Leeds show at the West Yorkshire Playhouse with Jonny Greenwood are now onsale at the box office. The phone number is 0113 2137700. You can also order tickets at the Fuse Leeds website. [thanks David]

Lawsuit against record companies over 'Copy Control'

A European consumer watchdog body is suing the world's largest music companies for selling copy protected compact discs that won't play in car stereos and on computers, the Belgium-based organisation ('Test-Aankoop') said on Monday.

Industry observers believe Test-Aankoop's suit is the biggest European legal challenge yet to the music industry's controversial campaign to release copy-protected discs, to minimise the impact that digital piracy is having on sales.

Test-Aankoop cited more than a dozen top-selling releases including Radiohead's "Hail to the Thief" that could not be played on multiple devices. EMI, Radiohead's record company, has been named in the suit, which is expected to be heard this week in a Belgium court. The group said it wants the labels to end the practice of issuing protected discs and to reimburse customers.

Since introducing two years ago copy-protection technology -- which typically amounts to a layer of data embedded on the rings of a compact disc that prevent playback on all but a home stereo or portable hi-fi device -- the music industry has been hit with torrents of criticism from individual consumers. [full story at Forbes.com] For more info on Copy Protection, check copyprotectionsucks.co.uk.

Chris O'Riley interview in Rocky Mountain News

"Don't expect music by Chopin or Beethoven when Christopher O'Riley appears in a piano recital at Gates Hall on Thursday. Not with a program offering the likes of Subterranean Homesick Alien, Fake Plastic Trees and Karma Police. Unless you're a fan of the English modern-rock band Radiohead, those titles won't mean much. But they mean the world to the American pianist."

The above in an introduction to an interview with Christopher O'Riley in the Rocky Mountain News.

#35: lists!

Hail to the Thief is listed in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review section as one of the best albums of the past year: "Radiohead. It's easy to take for granted just how good Thom Yorke and company are, and how Radiohead has produced a peerless body of work that is unsurpassed over the past decade. Deftly jumping between parochial and catholic concerns, "Hail to the Thief" is the band's most lyrically pointed release."

Hail to the Thief ranked 22 on Amazon's top 100 albums. [thanks Lina]

Q Magazine has a special 1001 Best Rock Songs Ever issue out and RH landed 9 songs on the list with the highest being Creep at no.7 (U2's One was no.1). [thanks Doug]

End-of-the-year lists v34.0

Hail to the Thief ranked 15th best album on Rolling Stone Magazine's 50 best
Albums of 2003: "Hail wasn't exactly Radiohead's anticipated return to rock; instead, the band simply turns down the volume on the electronics and lets the songwriting drift to less chaotic, more atmospheric realms. But on the singles "There, There" and "Go to Sleep," the album comes into scary focus: guitars swell to arena-worthy crescendos, supporting songs that demand repeated exposure to reveal themselves. And on this past summer's tour, Radiohead proved again that they're the best band in the world." [thanks Lina]

In Mexican magazine 'Switch' Radiohead is nr. 10 in top 10 of best bands in the world. Also OK Computer reached the 2nd place of best albums in the world, and Hail to the thief was the 4th best album of the year. [thanks Jime]

Hail to the Thief was voted #1 album of 2003 by the listeners of 90.3 KEXP Seattle. [thanks Louis, Charles]

M 80, radio station in Spain, lists There There at #19, on their best songs of 2003 list. [thanks lancaster]

Radiohead's 'There, There' made it to #32 on Edge 102's Top 102 of 2003 list. [thanks Lina]

And then there's MTV2 Rock Videos of the Year Countdown with 'There There' at number 9. Radiohead was #5 on the mtv2 program "22 greatest bands" and Thom Yorke was #18 on the "22 greatest voices" program. [thanks Joseph & Ron]

If you still want to influence Chart Attack's End-of-the-year poll, you're lucky. Due to some technical glitches they’ve decided to keep it up for a few extra days. The poll will close, for real, on midnight this Wednesday (January 7).

HTTT is listed somewhere at Zwire.com as well.

The Chicago Tribune made a list of the best live music from 2003: Radiohead's Alpine Valley (Aug. 23) show was fifth in the list: "The British art-rockers once again transformed the forbidding computer experiments of their recent albums into concert drama. Singer Thom Yorke mocked his reputation for sullenness, dancing giddily as his bandmates demonstrated that electronic music can rock, too. Yorke winked his way through "You and Whose Army": "Come on if you think you can take us on," he challenged. He had the right to feel a little cocky on this night."

Hail To The Thief statistically third best album of 2003

We've had all the Best of 2003 lists the past month. Now, two guys statistically analyzed the best albums of 2003, from some thirty top-10 lists, giving value to how often an album was mentioned by editors and recording its mean place. Radiohead's 'Hail to the Thief' ended up at number 3! (White Stripes at Nr. 1) Full results and details. [Via slashdot.org, thanks injektilo*, brian & oliver]

However, the BBC reports that OutKast released the best album of 2003, according to UK music critics in an end-of-year "poll of polls". Music store HMV added up lists of the best albums of the year that have been published in magazines like Mojo, NME, Q and Mixmag... and it turns out Hail To The Thief is number 6 in the list.

Montreux concert on Belgian 'Canvas'

Belgian telivision station 'Canvas' (aka VRT2) will broadcast Radiohead's performance at the Montreux festival this Sunday (January 4th) from 13:00 - 14:00 hrs. [Thanks Cilia]

Moby plays Creep on Conan

Moby played "Creep" on Late Night with Conan O' Brien on New Year's Eve. The lyrics are all the same, except Moby sings "I wanna lose control." Moby has covered the song many times at his live shows, including Glastonbury, which is featured on his recently released DVD. [thanks Wes, Adam]

Happy New Year

I'd like to wish everyone a happy and musical new year. 2003 has been a year packed with Radiohead live shows around the globe and the release of 'Hail to the thief'. A great year. Not only for Radiohead and their fans, but also for ateaseweb.com. At Ease | Radiohead has had a hectic year. When it comes to site visits, it was the busiest year from the past 6 years, resulting in server problems because of the gigantic amount of people that visited the site, the problems with Warner Chappell... but also those many people who donated to keep the site online and finally winning the award for Best Fan Site at both the Interactive Music Awards and Online Music Awards. I'd like to thank everyone for their support this year.

Let's hope 2004 will bring us some more excellent live shows and hopefully more Radiohead music. A happy new year to all of you!