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2+2=5 and 'dumb motherfuckers'

Posted by inez on July 3, 2008 at 2:00pm

Hi all!So, a couple of days ago I posted a recording of 2+2=5 from Manchester (June 29, 2008) which captures thom screaming "Dumb motherfuckers" - the video provoked a rapidly growing 3-page discussion touching upon society, censorship, authority, cursing and several other issues that could (+ SHOULD) be of interest to a lot of people.So if you are curious, you can view the video and discussion here (or just click on 2+2=5 on my videos)THX, THOM!and thx to Acid Reign for taping

Super Collider and The Rip

Posted by Comfis on June 9, 2008 at 9:46am

Radiohead performed a brand new song during the two Dublin shows!It is called Super Collider. Here you can find 2 vids and the lyrics of the songBesides the first video of a Johny Thom version of The Rip was uploaded here in Waste Central!Enjoy!!!

charlotte and bristow

Posted by maria on May 20, 2008 at 4:30pm

i know it is a week or so late but here are my thoughts on those 2 shows....i remember we drove in the night from atlanta to greenville, south carolina and stayed at an amazing red roof inn. They are redesigning all red roof inns and let me tell ya, as some one who travels a lot I was pretty impressed with the design. Only problem is that they use t mobile for their wireless. I digress...We left greenville pretty early but decided we wouldn't get to charlotte early in the morning since neither of us had a pit ticket. We got to the venue maybe around noon and there were 3 people there. We spent the day there waiting at the box office and my friend prescot met up with us to listen to soundcheck. The soundchecked started around 4 and they must have done like 11 songs, especially Jigsaw, which they had yet to debut for the tour. The box office ended up having nothing but seats in the back, so i bought one of those.I had remembered that a girl in atlanta had got herself into the pit by using someone elses already used pit ticket. The tickets in atlanta had a big 'p' written on them in marker by the venue security when they gave us wristbands. So that girl was able to take as much of the marker off for them not to tell and they wrote on it again and gave her a wristband. SO I decided to use the method to get into the pit in charlotte. Matt was lucky, he got a pit ticket just from a fan that was waiting at the gate. When the gates opened I ran in using my shitty row U ticket to be scanned and then when it came time to get into the pit, I put my finger over the date and where the washed off 'p' was and just was very talkative with the security. He did not notice at all and just gave me a wristband and let me in. So easy. I got in just in time to get rain right between thom and jonny! The pit was also fairly small and no one really showed up to be there until the lairs went on, so we had room to move around and everyone was really respectful. The show in charlotte was my favorite of the first 5, the band was full of great energy and even thom said something along the lines of 'we're gonna need a rest after this one'.After the show we started our drive to maryland and stayed just north of charlotte in concord. The next morning we drove to maryland where we were staying with my friend John's parents. We made it in about 7 hours, but got stuck in horrific traffic in DC. That night we just hung with my friend's parents and rested. Little did we know what we would encounter at bristow.It wasn't really raining when we left maryland that morning. We got to bristow pretty fast and met 3 people who got there right after us. The venue told us we could not be in the property until 4pm, but that we could go in to check the box office at noon. When noon came we all went in and just stayed by the gates. We met a kid who has been there since 7am! Then as soon as we got there, it started to rain. I broke out my poncho and put on another set of layers. It wasn't terrible, but then around 3pm they let the cars in so people just started flooding in. The pit would be massive at this show, holding something like 1800 people. The rain just kept coming and we camped out at one gate hoping that we could out run kids to the front. The front being about 1/4 of a mile from the gate, all the way around to the other side of the venue. When they opened the gates it was raining so hard that huge puddles of muddy water were what we had to run through to get to the front. Once i finally made it there, i had to ask people to let me through since I had been there all day. Most people were fine with that, except for a few young girls that gave me some attitude. They made us wait at the entrance to the pit for about 30 min as it continued to rain really hard. Soaking wet at this point, I am trying to remember how much I love this band. Once they let us in, I got right between thom and jonny, second row behind the kid that had been there since 7am. The show was good, but there was a lot of negative energy around me. Between the girls who gave me tude, and this guy who had been reportedly touching girls innapropriatly, to just people who were bitching nonstop. I tried to ignore it all and get into the show, but I think being wet and cold made it even harder. The show was good, but not a favorite of mine.After the show we were completely and totally exhausted. We tried to drive back to maryland but it was pouring rain out so bad that it was hard to see. We were so afraid that the bad weather plus being tired would get us in an accident, so we just pulled over and stayed at a hotel. It was still raining the next morning but the drive back to marlyand and then onward to connecticut was not so bad.It was a great week filled with lotts of adventures. We met so many great people along the way. Thanks to everyone who helped us out.

Here you can find the Radiohead Dallas setlist The best videos of the whole tour till now are coming from Dallas show! They are really great! Well here are some Radiohead Dallas Videos, and a few Ra

Posted by Comfis on May 20, 2008 at 10:00am

Here you can find the Radiohead Dallas setlistThe best videos of the whole tour till now are coming from Dallas show! They are really great!Well here are some Radiohead Dallas Videos, and a few Radiohead Dallas photos

Radiohead Dublin Setlist - Brand New song!!!

Posted by Comfis on June 7, 2008 at 11:27am

The Radiohead Dublin setlist was great undoubtedly! But why they didn't play jigsaw and Weird?It would be great if they had a 27 songs setlist :Pi can't wait to listen at Super Collider!Tomorrow i will gather photos and vids!Was any of you there? waiting for your reviews!

houston show photos

Posted by nick seifert on May 31, 2008 at 12:40am

just uploaded all my pictures taken at the houston show. they're at the lowest rez possible for upload, so if you see one you really like just leave me a message and i can upload the full quality.

The Radiohead Dublin setlist for a second night was great, though many great songs can't be part of it.. why do they play either Paranoid android or Jigsaw ? can't they play both of them?:p no down i

Posted by Comfis on June 8, 2008 at 12:51pm

The Radiohead Dublin setlist for a second night was great, though many great songs can't be part of it.. why do they play either Paranoid android or Jigsaw ? can't they play both of them?:pno down is the new up, no 2+2=5 .. anyway as it is said many times in the past, the only thing you shouldn't do after a radiohead show is to complain about the songs they didn't playbut it is still a really great setlist

Radiohead Best Of Reviews

Posted by Comfis on June 6, 2008 at 12:36pm

I tried to gather the first impressions on the just released Radiohead Best of. Though it is not my review, i think it is still really interesting (probably much more interesting than my review :P)If you re interested, click here to read!

Radiohead Barcelona Videos

Posted by Comfis on June 14, 2008 at 7:33am

Here are a few youtube videos from Radiohead Barcelona show

Click here for more

Radiohead Polls

Posted by Comfis on May 29, 2008 at 11:07am

In my Radiohead blog i carried out many polls about Radiohead. I decided to gather the polls with the most votes and present them. I want your comments, if any, for the results.

for more click here

In Rainbows- Radiohead Win Ivor Novello Award For Best Album

Posted by Helen D on May 22, 2008 at 9:53pm

A well deserved bit of recognition for Radiohead's In Rainbows. I know that awards are not on the bands mind in general and I don't want to dwell on how great it is, but... wayhey!

Radiohead Vs Prince

Posted by Comfis on June 5, 2008 at 11:50am

Prince covered Radiohead's hit Creep in Coachella Festival.. after that, some fans uploaded videos of this appearance in youtube but Prince removed them or blocked them. Radiohead didn't accept his move. Thom Yorke said to billboard.com:“Really? He blocked it?” “Surely we should block it. Hang on a moment. Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our … song.”

Photo/Video summary of the first leg of the Radiohead north american tour

Posted by Comfis on May 22, 2008 at 11:30am

The first leg of the Radiohead North american tour is completed! I tried to catch some great photoshots and vids from all shows of the tour till now.. hope you will enjoy them :)Photos:

Videos:

Radiohead Houston Report!

Posted by Comfis on May 19, 2008 at 9:21am

Radiohead had another great show in Houston on May 17! The Radiohead Houston setlist was a bit weaker than this of previous shows. They also didn’t play Paranoid Android Click here for Radiohead Houston videosAnd click here for Radiohead Houston Photos

First Leg of Radiohead North American Tour Stats Summary

Posted by Comfis on May 21, 2008 at 12:30pm

I hope that you will find it interesting.The first 8 shows are completed. So I visited the Radiohead Tour Database and choose the most interesting stats (according to my opinion) and wrote a blog with the "summary of the first leg of North American Tour with numbers"Here are some of them:All I Need opened the shows 7 times while 15 Step opened only one show! House of Cards was preferred as a show closer (3 times), while Paranoid Android came second:* House of Cards: 3 times* Paranoid Android: 2 times* Reckoner: 2 times* Street Spirit: Once* Idioteque: OnceRadiohead played all songs from In Rainbows, 7/10 songs from Kid A, 7/12 songs from Ok Computer:* In Rainbows: 10/10 tracks played* Kid A: 7/10 tracks played* Ok Computer: 7/12 tracks played* The Bends: 7/12 tracks played* Hail to the Thief: 6/14 tracks played* Amnesiac: 4/10 tracks played* Pablo Honey: 0/12 tracks playedFor more Radiohead north american tour stats click here

Radiohead win the Ivor Novello Award for best album!

Posted by Comfis on May 23, 2008 at 5:22pm

Radiohead won the Ivor Novello award for the best album of 2007. Amy Winehouse also won the Best Song Musically and Lyrically award while my all time fav David Gilmour won the Lifetime Achievement Award!Click here for the Ivor Novello winners

Radiohead and Liars #1

Posted by rocky on May 10, 2008 at 4:30pm

A short reflection with more to follow.Radiohead's opening with All i need surely was unexpected, and for the first few songs the microphone used by Thom was turned up quite nicely and you could hear a lot of detail in the voice. This happened a lot during the show. "people have been talking", Thom's vocal performances have been great lately. Sail to the moon and airbag of course. There there, of course! During the concert there were stunning pairings of songs which I'm sure lots of people were aware of and inspired by in the audience.... after Idioteque, Morning Bell was played, sending shockwaves through the audience! That sort of thing always gets us, to pair songs together like on the album. ; ) Back in the day I read and it looked like they used to pair Climbing up the walls and No Surprises which must have been just as good. Then the thunderous performance of Where I End and You Begin was followed, really quickly, by its twin, that being Optimistic as they have a similar idea explored in each, in the lyrics anyway! The overhead lights, which used really vibrant colors, flashed huge and red through Optimistic. ....More later.

Liars set was great. I brought field glasses and used them to observe their musicianship more closely than I could squint my eyes. Several songs I knew, three or four by name, but some I didn't. One song used a drum machine or drum programmer of some kind with fantastic sounds used within it. The drumset was exciting to hear, turned up very loud, but when scoping out the drummer the slightly muddied rumble made more sense as I could connect what drum he struck with the sound that spat through the amphitheatre.The Tibetian or Indian songs played before Liars and after Radiohead were really really exciting. They were clear, obviously not from an mp3 player ; ) .... Hopefully like a few years ago someone will post on Dead Air Space explaining what those were and where to find them.

nostalgia

Posted by Italo Rossi del Aguila on May 2, 2008 at 8:28pm

so uhm... yeah, I was supposed to be arriving in miami right now but I'm stuck in the office. times like this can be pretty depressing, seeing how I'm not able to see my absolute favorite band in concert. some very good friends are going to west palm beach and tampa "on my behalf"... it would've been great to share this with them and I wish for the best. I know I really enjoyed my two shows in blackpool and that I'll never forget such an experience......guess this is what you get when you want a bit too much.I don't know... I'm still debating myself about getting into massive debt and seeing them in europe later on or something.not having a US visa sucks... really.help? :(

"If you toss something onstage to Radiohead it will be in their stage design next year,"

Posted by rocky on May 10, 2008 at 4:00pm

The mystery has been solved. A month or so before this tour I had read that the lighting design for this year's show was something very remarkable. I remember reading, 2 years ago actually about many people tossing glow sticks to Radiohead onstage during the Bonnaroo summertime festival. Until last night's show was over I could not completely work out what these large light-curtains which framed the stage looked like, exactly. The answer came on the way home --- they looked like extra-large glow sticks or glow wands! I remember apparently the glow sticks coming on stage for Radiohead was some sort of a pivotal moment in the 2006 tour when they sort of regained their confidence.Whether the beautiful and unexpected light tubes on stage were inspired by that or simply coincidentally similar we will never know....I had been seeing these things in the videos on the front page from which I did in fact shield my eyes to avoid knowing what was in the photo. It was worth being in the dark about these things! Much more to come....

New songs??

Posted by rocky on May 2, 2008 at 2:09pm

Some previous reports from radiohead have suggested they have written and rehearsed a few new songs... This hasn't really happened before.....except I suppose, for the end of the 1998 tour "how to disappear" and "nude" were played, and during 2001 the early "reckoner" was played. During the Hail to the Thief tour there were no songs newer than that album played. so of course it's possible that new songs might not be played during this tour, but it sounds like there are a few, and of course a few mysterious songs like "pig's ear" and stuff like that from sessions leading up to in rainbows that must have been pretty good. so, to get to the point, in a week or so (for myself) and less than that for others, there may be a completely new radiohead song to hear and marvel at! It's hard to comprehend, I suppose, and possible that new songs if any emerge in concerts, won't be played til later in the tour.Also definitely excited about the video recordings of apparently ten or so songs including "optimistic" "where i end" and "myxomatosis" along side in rainbows songs which will emerge tomorrow. I won't be watching those until after next friday, but that isn't too long to wait!

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