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Portishead - Roads

Posted by Maxymiliano on April 11, 2012 at 2:39am

Esta banda britanica hace q la niebla londinense se escape de los parlantes mientras te rodeas de su musica. Exquisitez. Y Beth, q mas decir, su voz brilla mas alla d todos y cada uno de nosotros.

Portishead - Roads

Oh, que no pueden ver
Que tenemos una Guerra que pelear?
Nunca encontramos el camino
A pesar de lo que nos han dicho.

Como me puedo sentir tan mal?
Desde este momento,
Como me puedo sentir tan mal?

Tormenta,
A la luz de la mañana
Siento,
Que no puedo decir nada más,
Me he congelado.

No tengo a nadie a mi lado,
Y seguramente eso no esta bien,
Seguramente eso no esta bien.

Oh, que no pueden ver
Que tenemos una Guerra que pelear?
Nunca encontramos el camino
A pesar de lo que nos han dicho.

Como me puedo sentir tan mal?
Desde este momento,
Como me puedo sentir tan mal?

Como me puedo sentir tan mal?
Desde este momento,
Como me puedo sentir tan mal?

Oh, que no pueden ver
Que tenemos una Guerra que pelear?
Nunca encontramos el camino
A pesar de lo que nos han dicho.

Como me puedo sentir tan mal?
Desde este momento,
Como me puedo sentir tan mal?

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I made a stop motion video of my front row experience of the Radiohead Concert (Atlanta, GA, Phillips Arena)

Posted by Zainab Kamara on March 12, 2012 at 2:53pm

After waiting in line for 10 hours, we managed to get to the front row for the entire concert. Throughout the day, I managed to capture enough images to make this short stop motion film. Hope you guys enjoy!

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Radiohead 2009 Prague Show -- From Radiohead Fans. To Radiohead Fans.

Posted by SubSickAlien on September 2, 2010 at 5:51am


Hey guys! Since we all have nothing to do but to patiently await the release of the new and highly-anticipated follow-up to In Rainbows, it seems necessary for us all to get our fix by indulging ourselves in all things Radiohead. Listening to Radiohead (as you might always find me doing) is sometimes not enough... so as it goes, a group of fans teamed up and has managed to put together the complete Prague show from August 23, 2009 (wished I was there)... and has released it as a free download to the rest of us fans from all over the world!

As it reads on the website: "On 23rd August 2009 a group of Radiohead fans descended on the Výstaviště Holešovice Exhibition Hall in Prague on a mission - to capture the band playing using as many different angles as possible. Bringing together the exceptional talents of many contributors. Here is the result."

You can find the downloadable film on this link: http://radiohead-prague.nataly.fr/Main.html

Reminder: STRICTLY NOT FOR SALE - BY THE FANS FOR THE FANS. PLEASE SHARE AND ENJOY.

It's worth noting a small but important note found below the setlist which you can see on the website: "Audio masters kindly provided by the band"

Wow! They still love us.


Saludos!
-SSA
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When I’m at the pearly gates, this’ll be on my videotape.

Posted by bridget on August 22, 2008 at 3:41am
Radiohead with Grizzly Bear - 8/12/08Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJSound Check - 4:30 PM:I arrived in Camden 2 + hours before the gates of the venue were scheduled to open. While there were lots of friendly-looking folks tailgating in the parking lot, I decided to head over to the Susquehanna Bank Center, figuring that I’d find a bathroom and a drink of water after my 2 hour drive. As I approached the gates, I could hear Thom’s perfect, pure voice singing “Pull me out of the air crash, pull me out of the lake, for I’m your superhero, we are standing on the edge…” I probably don’t have to tell you what a thrill it was at the moment to hear them playing, seemingly, just for me. I couldn’t see anything, but if I put my face through the bars of the gate and closed my eyes, it really didn’t matter. The SOUND was perfect. It was a rare moment of really truly just listening to a group of amazing musicians-there was no crowd, no cheers, no one talking or singing along in the background-it was just them and me (well ok, 2 or 3 other people were there listening too). There were 2 teenage boys who couldn’t stop smiling—they were in complete awe—and eventually more of a crowd formed and the spell was broken. But for those several minutes of listening quietly to the sound check, it was much harder to think of them as gods- no matter how I would feel later- we were just human beings a few hundred feet away from each other that were momentarily connected.[Besides ‘Lucky,’ they also played ‘I Might Be Wrong,’ ‘The Gloaming,’ and ‘Go Slowly.’]The gates opened at 6:30 on the dot. The line stretched down the street. There were groups of teenagers, college kids, parents with children, loners (like me), thirty and forty somethings, even a few white hairs. I only had 2 people in line in front of me, so was one of the first people to enter the venue. Despite being slightly dehydrated and still needing to find a bathroom, I skipped all of the concession stands and walked passed the restrooms. Lawn seating is of course first come first serve, and I was not going to take a chance of getting a bad spot, especially since every spot is a bad spot if you’re as short as me. Luckily, I got a perfect spot, and the closest spot on the lawn. The only thing separating me from Thom were those yuppies in the expensive seats. I plopped my blanket down right against the railing at the bottom of the lawn, slightly right of center, which ensured an unobstructed view. Even if the entire seated crowd stood, or stood on their seats (which they did), I’d be able to see. And thank god – once the show started, the entire lawn stood, so even if I was on the incline, there’s no way I would’ve seen anything. It looked really unbelievable though, a complete sea of people, with no sign of grass anywhere, and 25,000 devoted fans. A nice couple seated to my right offered to watch my blanket while I went for a walk, and after I did the same for them, we talked for much of the night. They weren’t nearly as surprised as I was to learn that we were all from Baltimore (!), and they filled me in on some local bands (Fools and Horses—has anyone heard of them?).It’s probably a good time to take issue with the recent comments from Liam Gallagher, of the highly overrated British band Oasis, who called Radiohead fans “boring and ugly.” I’d also like to dispute the stereotype that Radiohead fans are predominantly white, middle class, and morose. It was an amazing, beautiful, diverse crowd. My Baltimorean friends were originally from Philly—he looked kind of like Flea—but the audience covered the spectrum. To my left were two Russian supermodel types, and behind me were 2 young Asian students, a brother and sister. It was their first Radiohead show. There were young hipsters wearing brightly colored ties smoking thin cigars and wearing sunglasses after the sun went down, same-sex couples holding hands, the tattooed and pierced, the dreadlocked, and lots of intense looking young men. There were people talking, laughing, reading, dancing, smokin’ up. One of the security guards confiscated a joint from someone next to me, but suspiciously pocketed it. I don’t think he was going to turn it in to his supervisor. Definitely not a boring, ugly, or easy to pigeonhole crowd.The opening band, the Brooklyn-based Grizzly Bear, played a pleasing set, but like most of the crowd, I was anxious for Radiohead. Prior to their last song, the lead singer thanked Radiohead and thanked the audience for listening to them “while waiting to be blown away.” I think that was the general consensus, Grizzly Bear were a good band, but we were all waiting to have our minds blown. And we did.Shortly before 9 PM, Radiohead took the stage. Hearing and seeing Radiohead last night I felt what it must have been like to see Pink Floyd before Roger Waters left. While Thom is definitely the epicenter, the confluence of these 5 talented men is what’s made Radiohead work. While they’ve done some great things apart (Thom’s “Eraser,” Jonny’s composing), as a band they are preternatural. They opened with ’15 Step,’ the “In Rainbows” opener, to an awesome LED “light show”— energy efficient ‘lighting’ (think Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, but really cool)—and Thom’s wacky dancing, a cross between running in place and religious possession. I’m sorry, but this man is the definition of sexy—all wiry, lazy-eyed 5’5 of him, the author of ‘Fake Plastic Trees,’ with a falsetto that rivals Beth Gibbons’ of Portishead. For the majority of the night, he was playing guitar or playing piano (which was covered with the Tibetan flag), so had less opportunity to flail, although he was conducting the audience like a deranged maestro during ‘Idioteque.’ Jonny arrived wearing a dark hoodie covering his head which made him look strangely elf-like (I kept picturing Liv Tyler in Lord of the Rings), especially with his lanky body, head down, and hair covering his face. He plays like he’s possessed. He eventually took the hoodie off, looking more human, albeit pretty intense. At first I thought Ed was wearing a suit, looking all dapper and poised and tall. His backing vocals were stellar, especially on Weird Fishes. Colin looked like Colin—happy and wearing a white tee, while it was pretty hard to see Phil, except for the top of his bald head. They were all pretty quiet between songs, with Thom’s occasional “thank yous” and “cheers.” More than that was unnecessary.They played an amazing set, including 2 encores, lasting over 2 hours. They played every song from “In Rainbows” as well as ’Go Slowly’ from disc 2, which Thom dedicated to “everybody up in the lawn.” But while “In Rainbows” dominated the setlist, they played songs from all of their albums (if you count ‘Morning Bell’ for “Amnesiac”). ‘The National Anthem’ was a killer, followed by ‘Videotape’ which made my eyes well up. They even did ‘Street Spirit’ to end the first encore--the songs from “The Bends” were pleasantly unexpected (they also did ‘Just,’ ‘The Bends,’ & ‘Planet Telex’). During ‘No Surprises’ it was pretty chill inducing to hear 25,000 people sing “bring down the government, they don’t speak for us” and then cheer wildly. There were many other highlights of the night: Thom and Jonny playing ‘Faust Arp’ alone, hearing ‘Lucky’ at sound check and then again during the show—‘Lucky!’, thinking the show was over and then starting the second encore with a brilliant ‘Reckoner.’ The show ended just as it began—with pure theatrics. They played “Everything in Its Right Place”—there’s something right with the world when thousands of people are singing “yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon”—and ended with each band member leaving the stage while the others continued the song. Thom left first, then Jonny, and so on, with the LED lights finally converging to spell “Everything in Its Right Place.”It’s difficult for me to describe the experience, just as it’s difficult for me to separate them as a band and individual musicians, from their politics and activism, their totally ‘green tour’ (the LED lights, no plastic, having their equipment shipped, etc), their giving away their album for free on the internet, their other musical accomplishments. When you enter the venue and are immediately handed information about human trafficking, you expect to have a different kind of evening. When Radiohead hired consultants to determine how to reduce their carbon footprint on this tour, they got some flack for being high-brow do-gooders, but were also called hypocrites (Damon Albarn from Blur and Gorillaz criticized them for touring at all). So what does this have to do with music? Well, a lot, I think. Their persona as a band is partly why they have such a devoted following. Let’s face it, if you’re an arch conservative, you probably don’t love Radiohead, despite the fact that they are probably the most talented and groundbreaking band in my lifetime. By definition they do attract a different kind of fan. How else would a band who hasn’t had a “hit” song played on the radio since the early 1990s thrive as one of the world’s most successful and beloved bands? They’ve accomplished this with virtually no mainstream radio play since ‘Creep’ in the early 1990s. Personally I think that’s what’s given them the creative freedom to do an album like ‘Kid A’ – they’ve never been part of the mainstream, so they’ve been able to continue pushing the boundaries musically without any negative repercussions. On the contrary, they are loved because they are fucking amazing musically, and therefore haven’t been accountable to your typical radio listening top 40 audience. Sure, they’re multimillionaires now, but releasing ‘In Rainbows’ on the internet under a “pay what you want” model was a risk, just like everything else they do.A band like Radiohead is also very freeing for a fan. Sure, everyone has their favorite songs, but since they have no “hits” the people who go to hear them live aren’t waiting for ‘Creep’ (which they do not play anymore, hell they don’t even play ‘High and Dry,’ ‘Paranoid Android’ or ‘Karma Police’). Their fans are there because they know their 7 albums and many of the bootlegs and b-sides. Radiohead can draw on their extensive musical catalogue (as they did last night) and put on an awesome show—there are no limitations.Strangely, the whole experience felt pretty intimate. Being there with 25,000 people, standing on a small ledge of concrete against a metal railing, I experienced something I haven’t in a long time. I was completely focused on the present. I didn’t think about work, I didn’t think about anyone else, I didn’t even think about myself. I just listened, saw, felt. Happiest I’ve been. Jigsaw falling into place.xo bridgetSetlist: (thanks to the At Ease website)01. 15 Step02. There There03. Morning Bell04. All I Need05. The National Anthem06. Videotape07. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi08. The Gloaming09. Where I End And You Begin10. Faust Arp (before starting, Thom: “Good evening Jonny. How are you?”)11. No Surprises12. Jigsaw (before starting, Thom: “Okay. You ready?” Crowd roars.)13. The Bends14. Idioteque15. Climbing Up The Walls16. Nude17. BodysnatchersEncore 118. House of Cards19. Lucky (Thom: “Okay”)20. Go Slowly (Thom: “This one is for everybody. Everybody up in the lawn … This is a slow song for a good reason.”)21. Just22. Street SpiritEncore 223. Reckoner24. Planet Telex25. Everything In Its Right Place
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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
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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
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Bittersweet Distractors

Posted by antism on April 5, 2008 at 5:30am
have to say that disc 6 (live 2003) is definetely my fav RH live compilation of all time. The drive of some of the tunes (The Gloaming, Backdrifts, Myxamatosis, Kid A) flows right through you. If you haven't gotten it yet, you can find it on the atease mb - multimedia forum. Dang good stuff...
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The BBC and the coming summer holidays

Posted by vodka1 on April 7, 2008 at 2:27pm
wow Blog number 1, lets see if I can keep this updated longer than the 7 others I have posted on in the past!Well i suppose i should start by talking about last Tuesdays BBC radio gig that i went to. I won a pair of tickets for the afternoon performance through the giveaway on w.a.s.t.e. Obviously i was pretty excited but coming from Glasgow all the way to London midweek can be a proper hassle so I didn’t have a +1 to take with me what with most of my friends having to work that day.I decided to offer it round Atease as i knew there would be quite a few people on there that would jump at the chance and i was right. The first person that i spoke to, also the guy i chat to most on there, Superdave, was right up for it and so we decided to meet up at 11.00 on Tuesday in the Big Smoke.I spent the night before staying with my parents in Ayr, which is right next to Prestwick airport, as my flight was at 0650 the following morning and I had to be there an hour before. Got up at 5am and text Dave who was just getting up and getting ready to get his bus from Dudley in the west midlands. Flight was pretty uneventful, got to Standstead at 0755 and then had an hour to read my book as the train tickets after 9am came with free underground travel and I figured I would probably need it during the day. I was on the 09.15 train to Liverpool street and in London for 09.59. 4 hours from Ayr to the centre of London and pretty easy.I took a wander through Soho and checked out a couple of vinyl stores where I picked up the Eraser remixes 12” for £5.99, just in case there was an opportunity for autographs. I never did get it signed as although a few people hung about outside to get sig’s I was not that bothered. Dave phoned about this time to say that he was just coming into the city on his bus and would be arriving at Victoria around 11.15. So I headed down that way, after getting confused about where exactly Victoria coach station is, I eventually spotted him and took a couple of Pap shots from across the road and then gave him a wave!We took the underground round to Oxford street and then wandered up to Portland Place where the BBC radio studios are. There was maybe 3 or 4 people sat across the way on the steps of the All Saints Church but no queue at that point so we popped for a quick pint and to get some lunch. We took our food back round to the BBC about 30 mins later and there was a small queue forming so we joined on the back.Near enough 1430 they began to allow us in the building, there were BBC and w.a.s.t.e staff there to check the names off and give us an envelope containing 2 tickets. We passed through a security station where Dave (the genius that he is) got his pocket knife taken off him! Then we went into a large lounge where we milled about and chatted for about an hour. There was a bar in the lounge and probably something like 60 to 70 people, including some of the BBC staff and DJs that were there. We saw Lard from Mark and Lard, a couple of Radio 6 DJs and the incredibly tall Stephen Merchant.Around 1540 they asked us to start making our way through to the radio theatre, where at the door they took our tickets L and we were made to just start filling up the rows from the first row back. This was good for Dave and I as we ended up 4th row centre, right in front of Thom’s mike stand and with a great view of Plank tuning up Johnny’s guitar. (which I am sure has had a few more chunks knocked out of it since the last time I saw it up close).At about 1555 Steve Lamaque did a nice wee introduction, where he made fun of Colin Murray and the BBC health and Safety people and the lights went down.I am sure most people will have listened to the gig so I will not go too much into the songs, just my personal recollections. The band looked good, healthy and like they were enjoying being there.15 Step – great start, got the crowd nodding away (it just did not seem British to stand up!) The outro rocked!Bodysnatchers – wow, what a rock song, and when the lights go out for you, pure delirium. Cant wait to rock out at the live gigs to BS’s.All I need – the beginning drums are pretty tribal and the outro rocks.Then Thom made a comment saying that when they agreed to play this BBC day they were asked to do a mixture of old and new songs (how I wanted to shout out ‘pop is dead’ at this point, but I guess that is an AtEase in joke!) and the launched into one of the best, rock out, versions ofMyxomatosis – Amazing. And I think Thom was enjoying this one immensely as well, he looked it anywayThom: ‘If radiohead were to ever to release a love song this is what it would sound like’…Nude – what a voice. The song is amazing and the timing of the bass/drums with thom is something that reminds you of the chemistry this band have, but thoms voice…… you’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking….(audible gasp from audience) oooooohhh ohh oh……Thom jumps back behind the electronic piano forMorning Bell, still holding all the melodies that make this one of those tracks that work well on CD but come alive live.Thom then said something along the lines of ‘here is another one from Kid A, might not be the one the pundits would choose but we like it, its odd, but not too odd’…Optimistic – The drums start early and lead everyone into the song, Thom sounds great but the bass and lead guitar levels sound a bit off, making the lead melody played by Johnny sound like it is in the background. However it still F’in rocked! But you could see the band were trying to catch each other and sort out the hiccups. The highlight of this version was definitely the joint ‘la la la la ‘ bit during the instrumental parts with thom and Ed looking like they wee putting their all into it.Then the piano comes rolling out again and thom sits, one hand placed on top of the keys andVideotape. Johnny doing the drum effects using a different mixer to the one from the webcasts, and using a couple of new samples I had not heard before but I am sure we are all familiar with now that the BBC have released the download. Brilliant.Thom thanks people for coming and we are on our feet cheering and yelling for more. The techs take a bit of time checking the tuning of the guitars and then out come the band again.Thom then says something along the lines of ‘we have really been digging playing Optimistic lately but that time we didn’t really click, so we are going to do it again’ Only at a Radiohead concert does the idea of hearing a song twice in one afternoon lead to the kind of cheer that went up for that one. They playedOptimistic (II) and we rocked out. This time the lead guitar was crisp and clean and the bass was pounding, Thom and Ed were singing away at the same level of intensity as before and if anything the drums sounded louder and more rocking! The finished off the song and we went mental, off out the door they went and it was over. As I was walking out the main door, Colin Murray was coming into back into the theatre and he walked past me quietly singing ‘I’d really like to help you man’ which made me smile.We were let out the side door and back out into the sunlight.Was definitely the most intimate gig I think I will ever see of Radiohead and it was amazing. It has wetted my appetite for my summer holidays, where I am following them around like a crazed stalker (a stalker who has to be back at work 2 days later).See you all out thereKeithaka vodka1
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on the subject of "Bangers and mash"

Posted by rocky on April 7, 2008 at 2:30am
Apparently tomorrow (monday) radiohead will air a video recording of "Bangers and mash" via the pitch fork website. It ought to be good and for some reason it seems like this is an adequate place to, after viewing it, sort of discuss how it was!Did you know?Bangers and mash was the first of the songs recorded in 2007 and 2008 for In Rainbows that was played live by the whole band? It was the third song of their first performance in Denmark in 200'6.
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