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Radiohead are making progress in the studio. The band started recording this past Winter and are currently in the studio working on the last bits. Ed O’Brien said it will be a matter of weeks till it’s finished and hopes to see the release before the end of this year. ‘It has got to. I hope so’

Guitarist Ed O’Brien was a guest on Adam Buxton’s show on BBC 6 Music today, saying he thinks the new Radiohead record ‘is the best record we’ve ever made’.

Ed: “We’re in the heart of the record. It’s genuinely exciting. It’s very different from what we did last time. It’s really nice to be doing this. It’s so good to be making music with the band that you feel is still as good as it’s ever been.”

When Adam Buxton asked if he had any idea when this record would see the light of day,

Ed answered: “No, Ideally it would be greatif it came out sometime this year. It has got to. I hope so. We’re at the finishing line. When you’re making a record, a film, write a book for ages and ages you think the finishing line is miles away. Now it feels it’s in touching distance. But of course, it being a creative process, at the last bit also, you have bursts of energy, you achieve a lot of things in a small period of time and then you’re nearly there…it might slow down. But yeah, hopefully it will be a matter of weeks.”

With ‘In Rainbows’ you seemed to have turned a corner and having a lot more fun. That’s what it looked like from the outside looking in. Is that fair?

Ed O’Brien: It wasn’t fun making the record. Making records has been hard. It’s always been a slog. Traditionally Radiohead in a studio has been: Don your tin helmet, just see it out, like a war of attrition. And basically at the end of In Rainbows it had taken three years to sort of come together. And we initially started off on our own, pulled in someone else and after a year we worked with Nigel [Godrich] again. It was such a slog. We knew we had these songs. We really believed in these songs. So, we had to do it right. It just took a long time. And we basically decided then and there at the end of that record: ‘We are never doing this again this way’. That was kind of like the end of Radiohead, mark 2. We decided, the only way that worked for us to carry on was to do it in a different spirit. Enjoy it.

On the recording process of ‘In Rainbows’ Ed continued explaining why it was much harder than everybody thought.

Ed: “We hear it all the time: ‘it sounds like you had a great time in the studio’. But, oh man… that [In Rainbows] was a slog. It was a really long process. At the end, for instance a song like ‘House Of Cards’ has been recorded six times. Plus the fact: we had this genius idea in 2006 to go on tour and do 50 odd shows, play all these songs, go back to studio and record them. And that’s when we went back in with Nigel. We went in and recorded them having played these songs 50 times. So we kind of got the arrangements sorted. We just wanted to get them down. We played these enough. And we got them down and most of them were rubbish. A lot of work in the creative process is rubbish.

However Ed praised producer Nigel Godrich for his influence on the band.

Ed:“The art is to not give in, to carry on, persevere. You just have to keep going. The great thing about Nigel is; he raises the bar. He drives you hard. You think you’ve done the take, you think you’ve done your overdub, you think it’s in there and then he says: ‘Maybe one more time’. He gets the best performances out of you. He’s amazing. Cause he also drives himself really hard as well. The quality of the stuff that he does is really high. So, it’s good to be driven hard.”

I'm excited!

-SSA

UPDATE: Listen to the interview here:

http://soundcloud.com/a952424/ed20-6-2010

Link:

http://www.ateaseweb.com/2010/06/20/new-radiohead-album-almost-finished-release-this-year/

It was nothing but amazing, I still can't believe I was really there. Rumours had been around for ages since Thom always avoided answering any Glasto questions while touring with AfP, and the late slot (8.30) also indicated that something big was on the way. Still when I showed up at The Park (my favorite part of entire Glastonbury anyway!) saw the keyboard, the piano, and then Graham (Jonny's roadie) my mind had trouble processing what my eyes clearly saw. I think 'Oh my God, it's them, it's really them...' was the most coherent I could come up with, ask my friend Katrin about details (^_^).

I managed to shove myself up front and to second row and then asked the two lads in front of me if I could perhaps squeeze in. They didn't mind (bless them forever!) and so I was standing in the middle of front row, at Glastonbury, waiting for Radiohead.

Holy fuck.

And just when I thought it could not get any better, Mr Michael Eavis himself entered the stage, grinning like a child who is about to receive a great present and made the announcement for them!

Next thing Thom appeared with a grin almost eclipsing that of Michael Eavis, a ridiculous headband, rolled-up jeans and chunky Vans (I think?). How much 80s can you get? Joboxers meet Mark Knopfler...

The crowd went crazy, Thom did his silly wave routine, stepped over to the piano and launched into The Eraser. More songs from his solo album followed, during a quiet moment between songs I was sorely tempted to yell 'Where is Jonny?' but then didn't have the guts.

Shortly after Jonny did indeed show up, wearing some sort of Shardik t-shirt that the guys from British Sea Power would surely have been envious of and a grin matching that of Thom and Michael. Not slouching head-down over to his music fort but a waving openly and happily into the audience, who excitedly cheered his name again and again.

After that, pure magic. Arpeggi (one of my favorite songs of all), Pyramid Song, Idioteque, Karma Police, Street Spirit. The crowd kept chanting 'For a minute I lost myself' over and over and when Jonny had trouble getting his instruments together (apparently Graham had not expected Street Spirit but another song), Thom launched into the refrain again, together with the crowd.

Obviously, the set was way to short and everything was over way too quickly :-(. But it was a wonderful thing to witness, a glorious feeling to have been there.

There were loads of photographers in the gap, but they had to leave after the third song, so none of them got a picture of Jonny :-P. I took a few pictures, my camera is not really good and as usual I was too busy enjoying the show but if anyone wants to see them, check my Glasto foto album.

Edit: here's a shot from the stage including yours truly sandwiched between the aforementioned two generous guys with black and blue t-shirts... (^_^)

Videos

http://http://www.waste-central.com/video/thm-jonny-at-glasto-2010

Pics

http://www.waste-central.com/photo/albums/secret-gig-glastonbury-2010

Michael Eavis, organizador de Glastonbury, presentó a Thom como la mayor sorpresa del festival/ Michael Eavis - manager of Glastonbury- present Thom - the best surprise of the festival !! -

Playlist

The Eraser

Harrowdown Hill

Black Swan

Cymbal Rush

WeirdFishes/Arpeggi

Pyramid Song

Idioteque

Karma Police

Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Audio

Phoner With Ed From Radiohead

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wknd

Thom Yorke supplied one of the defining moments of Glastonbury Festival 2010 so far with his secret show at the Park Stage. Thousands of people basked in the sunshine as the Radiohead man wowed fans with ‘The Eraser’ and ‘Black Swan’.

He was then joined onstage by Jonny Greenwood for ‘Idioteque’ before a joyous ‘Karma Police’ was sung by the crowd after the song finished. Ending with ‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’ the special guests really lived up to their name. Now where are Coldplay?...

After Yorke’s classic Glastonbury moment, Fatboy Slim’s tradional Dance Village show failed to light up the reviews. Benni Banassi’s ‘Satisfaction’ and a mash-up of ‘The Rockafeller Skank’ with the Rolling Stones’ ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ left fans satisfied (sorry), but a ‘Eye Of The Tiger’ remix was just awful.

It’s with a heavy heart that we were dragged from Thom Yorke’s special appearance in The Park toward Hot Chip. And the departure from the squinty angel-voiced Yorke (and friends) unfortunately marred the impact of fun-boys Hot Chip. It’s not that there was anything particularly wrong with Chip’s appearance. It’s just that even with his sweetest, most falsetto’d poetry Alexis Taylor ccouldn't begin to reach Yorke’s heights - or depths. Especially with Alexis wearing a Pearly King style baseball cap which made him look like he was on day release from a cockney asylum.

Happy birthday Colin, our best beloved bassist!

We love you !!!

O cantor e compoitor Thom Yorke, líder da banda britânica Radiohead, faz apresentação surpresa durante a 40ª edição do festival Glastonbury, em Londres (Fotos: Reuters)

Cantor Thom Yorke e guitarrista Jonny Greenwood se apresentaram juntos.
Repertório incluiu 'Idioteque' e 'Karma police', entre outras.

O Radiohead revelou estar terminando de gravar o seu novo álbum de estúdio. A banda inglesa não conta detalhes sobre o trabalho, mas garante que ele está diferente dos seus discos anteriores.

Em entrevista à rádio "BBC6", o guitarrista Ed O'Brien defende o trabalho como a melhor coisa que o Radiohead já fez. "Fazer música com essa banda é tão bom quanto sempre foi", diz.

Segundo o site "NME", os ingleses podem estar envolvidos novamente com Nigel Godrich, produtor que já trabalhou com o Radiohead em seus álbuns anteriores.

O'Brien conta que o processo de gravação está nos estágios finais. "Se tudo der certo, será apenas questão de semanas".

O guitarrista não fala, no entanto, sobre os planos da banda para fazer o álbum chegar aos fãs. O último trabalho do Radiohead, "In Rainbows", foi lançado pela internet em outubro de 2007. O download de disco na íntegra podia ser feito mediante o pagamento de qualquer quantia, inclusive de graça.

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/754336-radiohead-revela-que-lancara-novo-album-este-ano.shtml

A entrevista com mais detalhes, confira:

http://www.ateaseweb.com/2010/06/20/new-radiohead-album-almost-finished-release-this-year/

link pra ouvir a entrevista:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/06/20/ed-obrien-new-radiohead-album-may-be-out-sometime-this-year/

here's some tunes before bedtime:

OXBOW

check out their album ''Serenade in Red'' and ''An evil heat''(3 o'clock is my favorite songOxbow – 3 O'clock on spotify)

nikko wenner their guitarist is a great musician. arragements and compositions are really cool and unusual but have great feel and mouvement to them.

the last tune on serenade in red ''insane asylum'' features Marianne Faithfull, highly recommended!!!!!!

kushal

hello there

my friend luke introduced me to the work of the ''Long Now'' Foundation, some interesting stuff on there such as a 10 000 years Clock.

This foundation is concerned with long term thinking and i quote : 'hopes to provide counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking'.

http://www.longnow.org/about/

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