Finally, they performed A Wolf at the Door Tour debut .
Thanks Josephine , Arico, Vanessa, Shamus !!
Soundcheck in Bercy photo by Jonny Greenwood
PARIS
Jonny talks in french before Give up the Ghost: "euh, notre chanteur a peur de parler français, moi j'ai peur de parler du tout. Nous voulons juste dire que nous sommes heureux d'être ici à Paris " "our singer doesn't dare to speak in french and I don't dare to speak at all. We just want to say we're happy to be here in Paris." Thanks Radiohead France !!
If you want to chat to other Radiohead fans about food, the weather, or maybe even Radiohead, head over to http://www.radiohead.com/msgboard/It might look a bit scary and fast-moving at first, but we are really a nice bunch.
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Radiohead play live in South America in April 2018 - tickets for Brazil go on sale 20th December. Tickets for all other dates are on sale now https://www.wasteheadquarters.com/schedule
Here's a new track called Staircase, taken from our upcoming 'From The Basement' session:
And no, you're not seeing double. The doppelganger drummers are myself and Clive Deamer. Clive has long been one of my favourite drummers and so I was really excited when he agreed to perform with us. Hope you like what we've all done.
The Universal Sigh se repartió en casi todo el mundo y Argentina no podía quedar afuera!.
ExitMusic cuenta con un número de copias del periódico y queremos que llegue a las manos de los que día a día hacen alguna parada por este sitio.
Simplemente enviá un correo:
theuniversalsigh@exitmusic.com.ar
con tu nombre, apellido, ciudad y provincia donde vivís (muy importante este último dato).
Aclaramos que no se trata de un sorteo, sino de ver en una primera instancia la demanda para organizar envíos a provincias del interior en tanto y cuanto sea posible.
Las entregas se harán públicamente en fecha y hora a informar vía mail en las ciudades donde se organicen eventos.
Las copias son bastante limitadas (aproximadamente contamos con 250), por lo que la idea es hacerlo lo más equitativo y ordenado posible para la gente de todo el país, respetando las ideas originales del material – es decir que sea gratuito y público.
Agradecemos muy especialmente a Courtyard Management que hizo lugar a nuestro pedido y a EMI Argentina que nos cedió amablemente casi la totalidad de las copias.
Manténganse conectados al sitio para más información sobre eventos de reparto.
No hay plazo que no se cumpla ni deuda que no se pague. como ya por todos es sabido a RadioheadChile.com se le encomendó la tarea de repartir la versión en Español de The Universal Sigh en Chile, luego de coordinar con los distintos entes involucrados estamos en condiciones de entregarles información oficial de la entrega… todo esto, despues del salto!
Antes de entregar los lugares, algunas cosas importantes para aclarar las dudas:
La entrega sera por orden de llegada
El periódico es TOTALMENTE gratuito, no dejes que nadie te cobre un peso por él!
Se entregara un periódico por persona
No se permitirá guardar puestos a otras persona
Al recibir el periódico podrías ser fotografiados, esta fotografía sera enviada a www.theuniversalsigh.com
Existen GRANDES posibilidades de que esta sea la primera entrega pero no la ultima por lo que los invitamos a participar de la mejor forma posible!
LUGARES DE ENTREGA
Santiago Lugar: Feria Mix Suecia con Providencia Fecha: Viernes 17 de Junio Hora: 18:30 a 20:30
Viña del Mar Lugar: Feria Mix Marina Arauco Fecha: POR CONFIRMAR! Hora: 18:30 a 20:30
Concepción Lugar: Feria Mix Plaza del Trebol Fecha: POR CONFIRMAR! Hora: 18:30 a 20:30
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The Universal Sigh en Chile
Como la Comunidad Radiohead Chile no se puede quedar dormida! Y gracias a las gestiones de Constanza Román (Zooni)
The Universal Sigh llego ayer a Chile y EMI nos ha entregado la cantidad de 200 para repartir. La distribución debe ser igual que en los otros países. Es decir, organizada y con publicidad para los fans. Los puntos de distribución pronto serán informados, serian disquerías al parecer. El objetivo además de llegar a los fans de Radiohead es también incentivar la compra del Disco en Chile.
Por el momento requerimos 6 voluntarios responsables para la entrega. Estimo que la entrega sería la próxima semana.
Mixup anuncia en su página web una venta especial este 27 de mayo, en la cual adquiriendo The King of Limbs te llevas también un ejemplar de The Universal Sigh.
El periódico viene en su versión en idioma inglés.
Está limitado a un ejemplar por persona, sin importar si se adquiere CD o disco de acetato.
Únicamente hay un lote de 150 ejemplares por tienda.
La promoción es válida solamente en las siguientes tiendas del DF y área metropolitana: Génova Zona Rosa, Universidad, Satélite, Parque Delta y Plaza Loreto.
BBC Worldwide Music Television has signed a deal with Radiohead to distribute internationally a new and exclusive live performance of Radiohead’s eighth album, ‘The King of Limbs’.
Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live From The Basement is a 55-minute performance from one of the most successful and critically acclaimed acts of their generation, who have sold over 30 million albums worldwide. The programme will feature the notoriously elusive band performing the entirety of their celebrated new album in a studio setting with some additional behind the scenes material. It is scheduled to be the first time that the grammy-award winners are captured on camera this year.
The King of Limbs album was released digitally in February 2011 and physically at the end of March 2011, yet this exclusive performance will be the first time the band will have played this collection of songs in public. The band will be performing for acclaimed music show ‘From the Basement’, the brain child of production genius Nigel Godrich, who has either engineered or produced all of Radiohead’s albums since The Bends and has worked with a variety of international acts including Paul McCartney, U2, R.E.M and Air.
Having launched the title at MIPTV, BBC Worldwide has already received pre-sale offers for a number of major territories and expects to have a substantial network of broadcasters in place for its premiere.
Salim Mukaddam, VP Music Television at BBC Worldwide said, "It is a real honour to be working with Radiohead on this project. Radiohead are a band that rarely performs for television, but when they do, it’s a moment to savour. There is already huge anticipation for this performance and we’re delighted that they’ve decided to work with us at BBC Worldwide, confirming our position as market leaders in Music Television. As a fan I cannot wait to see these beautiful songs brought to life in this programme."
Bryce Edge of Courtyard Management, Radiohead’s management company said, "This will be Radiohead's first collaboration with BBC Worldwide and the band are excited at the prospect of having their first live performance of 'The King of Limbs' broadcast around the world . The band will be filmed and recorded by the From The Basement team, which includes Nigel Godrich their long time producer, Dilly Gent ,who commissioned many of the memorable Radiohead videos and Grant Gee who filmed the Radiohead documentary 'Meeting People is Easy'"
Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement becomes available to international broadcasters in June and is embargoed for broadcast until 1st July 2011. The programme is filmed in HD, will have no audience and no presenter – just a rare opportunity to see an intimate performance from one of the greatest bands in the world.
Notable record covers help to define artists. With Take Cover, we aim to track down the most striking artwork and get the stories behind them.
When Radiohead announced that their new album, The King of Limbs, would be released in a "newspaper" version, it left people with lots of questions. Like: What the hell is a "newspaper album," anyway? Photos of the deluxe set started rolling in last week, and Jon Severs of PrintWeek sat down with the band's longtime artist Stanley Donwood to talk about the ideas behind the unusual packaging. The interview and scans from the King of Limbs art are below:
Jon Severs: Was this newspaper concept driven by the music?
Stanley Donwood: [laughs] I haven't heard the album yet-- not properly, not finished, not since it was being made. I'm waiting for the record company to send me a 12" version! But when I was listening to it being made-- because I work alongside the band when they are making the music-- I loved hearing it emerge. I was hearing these shufflings and bangings becoming this sonic space that you can almost walk into. As I listened, I had this vision of these old churches where you had these huge ceilings of overarching, intertwined colors, and this led me to painting all these colored trees.
JS: So the newspaper album concept is something that the band inspired?
SD: The whole idea of this album was to have something that was almost not existing, so we chose clear vinyl and the newspaper format. [In Rainbows] was this big, heavy, substantial thing-- if you were determined, you could have killed someone with it! It was very much a definitive statement, and that isn't where the band are at the moment. Where they are now is more transitory. When a newspaper comes out, that doesn't mean news stops, what you have is just a snapshot of how things were at the moment that newspaper was printed. And similarly, this album shows where Radiohead are at the moment the record was released. The music is a continuing thing. And we wanted to make the album representative of that.
I also really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.
JS: Is the issue of disposability an important one with this project?
SD: There were two things to do with the newspaper. Firstly, I had left one out in the sun and it started to go yellow around the edges and fall apart. And I thought that was so nice because that is what happens to us as we get older. The other thing was that someone had left a big pile of old International Times and Oz magazines from the late 1960s at Colin [Greenwood's] place in the country. They were really cheaply printed and produced in a hurry and were decaying and had lost their corners, but they had become this archive that didn't exist on the Internet. And since they're not posh enough to be in the British Museum or elsewhere, they acquired a value because of their disposability.
JS: Is there a message in that?
SD: The whole thing with this is, if you look after it, like most things, they will last. If you don't, then they will disappear very quickly.
JS: Is the old look of the newspaper deliberate?
SD: We took the fonts from 1930s depression-era U.S. newspapers that had been collated by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society of America. So all the fonts are from the last big depression. They call it the "credit crunch" now, back then they called it a "depression" because they didn't like the connotations of a slump. It's all this use of euphemistic language.
JS: Putting out this elaborate packaging for an album in this era is quite a statement in itself.
SD: Music packaging used to be quite a simple thing. Before, the way the music was produced determined the packaging, be it vinyl, tape, or CD. But, with digital, that's irrelevant. So now you could just make a whole load of art and sell it with the digital files. In that sense it's freed us up.
When I first started doing record covers, it was for CDs and I hated them for how little they are. They're so fucking horrible. That's one of the reasons the [King of Limbs] CD is in a dreadful one-color reverse board (below). If we could have made it any worse we would have done.
JS: Do you think digital music robs you of something then?
SD: I guess it robs you of the context of the music, though that wasn't in my thinking at the time. The packaging for music has now become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This is something else that drove me to a newspaper format. I thought, "Let's put it in a newspaper, to get away from that spiritual thing." You don't want to elevate music to something it isn't. Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.
JS: Speaking of which, there's one bit of artwork, a piece made up of more than a hundred tiny squares of art printed on blotting paper, should we read into this one?
SD: Ah! I wonder what people will make of it. There is a guy who recently died, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, who was one of the most famous creators of LSD in history, a very wealthy American. He set up a laboratory making very cheap, pure, good LSD. In theory, someone could dip them in something, they could do that. I don't think that's been done as a marketing ploy before-- not that I am encouraging such activities.
I want to spread the word about a book that I read almost exactly a year ago, which I think some of you will adore/recognise/need. It’s a book called ‘Wild’ and it’s written by Jay Griffiths and it is an astonishing piece of writing and it was exactly what I needed to read….
I was not in the greatest of places .. I was feeling low, getting increasingly disturbed and frustrated by the state of pretty much everything in the 21st century, which, can be simply summarised as the inability of the vast majority of our business and political leaders to truly look after the welfare of the vast majority of this planet’s citizens and the earth that we all live on….Nothing new then?! …..Well… this book was truly medicinal and like all great music, it helped to lift me up and pull me out of this low level depression… Reading it, felt like one of those amazing moments in life where one feels an overwhelming sense of relief and amazement that someone could actually be writing about the very things that seemed to be affecting oneself ….. It makes you feel less alone….And it does this in such a beautiful, passionate and raw way ….
If you got a copy of ‘The Universal Sigh’, you will notice that Jay Griffiths contributed a piece to it …. I don’t normally recommend books on DAS, but seeing as I’ve given away probably 20 or so copies of it to friends and family, I thought some of you should know about this … Good luck …
The newspaper features essays and short stories on the theme of wildness. We chatted to Jay Griffiths, author of 'Forests Of The Mind' (from the newspaper), as well as 'Wild: An Elemental Journey'
Who approached you to be involved in The Universal Sigh?
"I got approached to be involved in because various people in Radiohead had read Wild: An Elemental Journey."
Had you any previous involvement with the band?
"I met Ed O’Brien through KT Tunstall after he’d read my book. I know he really liked it and he’d asked me to write a piece for the paper."
Did they give you a brief?
"No they didn’t and that was really lovely. All they said was that it was going to be a free newspaper given out internationally about woods, trees and forests. That really was about it, which was fantastic because that meant we could take it wherever we wanted to."
That’s quite general - did you feel overwhelmed?
"Well no actually, because I’ve written loads about The Amazon, the forests in West Papua and the importance of trees and woodlands in general and so it wasn’t an unfamiliar topic to me."
What did you think of the band’s mode of distribution for The Universal Sigh?
"Human beings have always had strong relationships with nature and forests, and to take that right into the heart of the city like Radiohead have done is tremendous. They dropped off the paper in big urban cities and that was like bringing the forests into the heart of the city. To me these things matter, partly because of the physical deforestation. But also in places like West Papua and The Amazon, you are deforesting the human mind. You are robbing people of their history, their culture, their myth."
Thom Yorke gives away free Radiohead newspaper - photo blog
In your piece you make the link between the spirit of the forest and your re-finding your spirit. How do you mean?
"I would say that wherever there are trees, people can find healing. That’s why if you have children, if you have half a chance you want to get them near forests. A friends of mine’s child lives in the centre of the city but has a particular relationship to a tree, it means an awful lot to him. I know other adults who would see trees being cut down and they would cry. It’s a very well rooted - excuse the pun - love."
How about you?
"I had a reading tree when I was a kid, I used to climb it and read."
How did your interest develop?
"I don’t know how to answer that. Partly with my book Wild: An Elemental Journey, it began with the terrible depression I wrote about in the newspaper. Nature is absolutely essential to the human condition."
If you had to sum up your philosophy in one line what would it be?
"Trees are friends to humanity."
In the paper there’s lots of references to the historical, mythological role of trees.
"Yes, it's also interesting to note things like the language of trees, that the word ‘tree’, ‘truth’ and ‘trust’ are related. I mean, that’s beautiful isn’t it? Because it’s like, here’s something that’s so solid that you can trust, like a tree. There’s nothing complex about that. It’s simple and profound one go."
Radiohead's 'The Universal Sigh' - what does it all mean?
What do you think of a band like Radiohead bringing these things into popular culture?
"I think it’s magnificent. And what they’re doing has such intelligence and awareness. Such thoughtfulness and deep down such kindness. The quality of kindness is not something that modernity likes that much, but it’s one of the most important qualities in the world. Very deep down that’s what they're thinking and that’s what their music represents."
You may have heard that tomorrow we will be releasing two tracks, Supercollider and The Butcher on 12" vinyl through participating stores for Record Store Day.
This vinyl will also available in the USA & Canada on the 14th June.
Unfortunately, due to err…unforeseen circumstances that we didn't foresee, some of the vinyl have the labels on the wrong way around. It is too late to recall the vinyl and stick them on the right way round, so here is a copy of the labels for those of you who wish to download, print, cut out and stick on yourself with pritt stick (other glues are available) thus correcting the error. Or we could just rename the songs.
Apologies for any confusion caused and have a happyRecord Store Day.
Stanley Donwood has designed all of Radiohead's artwork. Here he explains the thinking behind the free newspaper, 'The Universal Sigh', copies of which were handed out last week
On March 28th and 29th 2011, thousands and thousands of copies of a publication entitled The Universal Sigh were handed out in many major cities around the world. Many people might now be wondering why this happened.
Well me, I got back from London, from Brick Lane, where I and a fellow-conspirator handed out about three thousand free copies of The Universal Sigh outside a record shop called Rough Trade East.
This was the culmination of an idea that had its germination in a seething mass of humanity that I’d been embroiled in at the top of the steps down to Oxford Circus tube station, where amongst the heaving throng of commuters were valiant distributors of London Lite and Metro and the Standard, attempting to hand them out.
The newspaper thing began some months previously, in the summer. I’d left a newspaper on a bench in the sun, and when I returned to get it a few hours later it had already begun its inevitable decay; the paper had rippled slightly, the whiteness was yellowing, and it was feeling more brittle and delicate than it had before. I thought that this constituted a wonderful medium.
There’s nothing archival about a newspaper. It doesn’t pretend to be definitive; just because a newspaper comes out we don’t expect news to stop, or sport to finish. A newspaper is just a simple statement, an account of how things were at the time of writing. Newspapers aren’t even preserved. The vast bulk of them are recycled and turned into more newspapers.
The last packaging that I’d produced for a record was the hefty chunk of cardboard and paper that accompanied ‘In Rainbows’, but something of that kind was entirely inappropriate for this new record, which was very much more a state-of-play document.
After a lengthy concatenation of ideas, the usual meetings, conversations, work, doubt, worry and fear of the unknown, we had produced a large-format 36-page full colour newspaper which was to be presented, along with various other articles with the record ‘The King of Limbs’.
Afterwards, in response to the idea that began in a crush of commuters at Oxford Circus, we made another one. The Universal Sigh was a 12-page tabloid, printed using web-offset lithography on newsprint paper, just like the LA Weekly or London Lite or The Daily Mail. It may have been printed using the same machines that produce these newspapers.
The newspaper can of course be seen as a relic of the past, a dying format that has no place in the modern world where digital content interfaces seamlessly with an ever burgeoning plethora of shiny devices; portable tablet computers and e-readers, laptops, netbooks and smartphones.
But it is also a tactile pleasure, a finger-inking, page-flapping, paper rustling codex of information that won’t crash or corrupt. It won’t become useless without electricity. It won’t end up on the shores of somewhere far away, its innards picked at by underpaid children. But it will, with time, slowly crinkle, yellow, fade and crumble; much as we will.
When Radiohead announced they’d be releasing a newspaper, some writers at the Guardian decided to take action. In their own words, “If a band could wade so recklessly into the Guardian’s area of expertise, could we not wade into theirs?” With tongue firmly in cheek, the Guardian dutifully knocked out a cover of Creep. With a banjo!
Radiohead’s response came courtesy of Colin Greenwood who wrote a column in the Guardian today reviewing the Creep cover. Colin should be writing lyrics because he is great with words: “Having heard quite a few covers of Creep by artists such as Chrissie Hynde and Roland Orzabal, this is definitively one of them. I thought the Radio Eds dispatched it with pitiless ease.”
OK Colin, now get back to perfecting Bloom’s bassline for future performances.
Hey guys, the Radiohead Record Store Day piece that Pitchfork and others are talking about today is a UK-ONLY release. Took us by surprise too, those sneaky Radiohead fellas!
As announced Today, Radiohead will be releasing a two track 12″ vinyl on the worldwide Record Store Day. The two tracks are The Butcher and Supercollider. The latter has been played before by Radiohead on their previous live shows. Record Store Day is on April 16 and there are rumours of a limited edition of 2,000 copies. This number is most likely for one territory only. So the total number of copies are expected to be much higher. According to retailer Rise Bristol Ltd, who issued the info, the UK price is expected to be £10.
Aparentemente, Radiohead estaría participando del Record Store Day — como ya lo hiciera hace unos años — esta vez con un vinilo 12” exclusivo, que contiene los temas Supercollider y The Butcher. Se rumorea que la edición será de solo 2.000 copias, y sería lanzada el próximo 16/04. Aún no hay confirmación oficial en el sitio [...]
FREE NEWSPAPER 'THE UNIVERSAL SIGH' COMING SOON TO A NEWSSTAND NEAR YOU
The Radiohead album ‘The King of Limbs’ will be available for purchase in all good record stores everywhere on Monday 28th March, except in the United States of America and in Canada, where for reasons beyond the purview of this writer it will be available from Tuesday 29th March. On VINYL! On COMPACT DISC! As a DOWNLOAD!
To commemorate this momentous occasion, Radiohead have produced a newspaper which will be given away, free, gratis, without cost to the consumer by accredited vendors from a multitude of locations WORLDWIDE! In the USA, in the Netherlands, in Belgium, Poland, Germany, Austria, in the Czech Republic, in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Ireland, France, Italy, Slovakia, Finland, Greece, Norway, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Australia, Latvia, Iceland, Romania, New Zealand, the UK and a load of other places around the globe, our dedicated teams of newspaper delivery people will be handing out copies of THE UNIVERSAL SIGH to anyone who wants one, until we run out!
In conjunction with this unbelievable offer, Radiohead have established THE UNIVERSAL SIGH as a website on the internet, where details of your nearest vendor can be found, as well as more informations and a photogallery where we will be posting photos and the lucky owners of the gratis tabloid are invited to post pictures of themselves and their friends reading the newspaper in locations diverse and unusual. There will be other stuff too, but we haven’t thought of it yet.
Vinil Record expect the same front and back as the cd. The actual record is housed in an inner sleeve with a drawing (like the right page on the cd edition) on one side, and the drawings and credits on the other side. Inside the sleeve you’ll find a card with a download code to obtain the digital edition of The King Of Limbs.
Expect the same edition of the CD and Vinyl in all territories as all labels (XL Recordings, TBD Records, Hostess Entertainment) have their logo’s on the back. There’s one other logo, which is Ticker Tape Ltd. It looks like this is the name of the band’s own label and publisher.
And last, but not least, the credits: The music and sounds of The King Of Limbs were conjured up by Radiohead and Nigel Godrich. The imagery was summoned up by Zachariah Wildwood and Donald Twain. Engineered and mixed by Nigel Godrich. Additional engineering by Drew Brown. Additional assistance by Darrell Thorp and Bryan Cooke. Flugelhorn on Bloom and Codex performed by Noel Langley and Yazz Ahmed. Strings on Codex performed by The London Telefilmonic Orchestra, led by Levine Andrale and conducted by Robert Ziegler. Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig at Gateway Mastering & DVD. Also thanks to Peter Yozell, and Neil Whitcher. Studio equipment etc., kept going by Plank. Ourselves kept going by Kat and Tim. And our office! A big thank you very much indeed to Drew Barrymore. This one’s for new Henry, Zohar and all our little ones. Hello Guys
As you’ve noticed no recording location has been given, but thanking Drew Barrymore might confirm the earlier rumours that the album was indeed recorded at Barrymore’s house. Zachariah Wildwood and Donald Twain are credited for the artwork, who are obviously the new alter egos of Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke.
Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs available now! / ya está disponible para bajar The King of Limbs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Como descargar el disco instructive !! gracias Radiohead Chile !!
1. Accede a http://thekingofllimbs.com 2. Da clic en el anuncio en rojo que dice “If you are an existing costumer please go to ORDER TRACKING to download your MP3 or WAV” para acceder al área de Order Tracking 3. Ingresa tu correo electrónico y la contraseña con la que hiciste el registro 4. Si ya estás dentro del área de Order Tracking, podrás tener disponible el botón “DOWNLOAD” para empezar la descarga 5. El archivo se bajará comprimimdo en ZIP directamente a tu computadora
Radiohead - Lotus Flower (First Video The King of the Limbs)
Stanley Donwood's solo show at Outsiders gallery in London, which opened yesterday, offers a first glimpse of some of the artwork he's created for the new Radiohead album, The King of Limbs...
"There's three new screenprints here and a fucking great big drawing," he says. "This is all from the work that's to do with the record." The artworks are inspired by nature, Donwood goes onto explain, and the northern European heritage of fairy tales and myths based around forests and woods. "It's very much about natural forms. I'd heard something about the northern European imagination, in the sense of all our fairy stories and mythical creatures. They all come from the woods - Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel & Gretel...we've got all these stories and myths.
"Me and Thom were working on these ideas of strange, multi-limbed creatures that are neither malevolent or benevolent, they're simply there, part of the living spirit of the forest. That's come through into all of the work."
Donwood worked on the artwork for the new record at the same time the band was putting the songs together. "It works at the same sort of pace as the music," he says. "It's something that grows very organically, which again went into the style of the artwork."
Fans of the band can pre-order a special edition of the album, featuring a number of artworks from Donwood, online now. For the main cover artwork, he worked in oil for the first time. "It's really, really hard," he says of the medium. "I've only painted with acrylic before, which is bascially coloured mud that dries really quickly. It's very forgiving, but oil paint isn't really. It doesn't dry at all quickly. Eventually, after a lot of disappointment I figured out how to use it. I use it in conjunction with Halfords spray paint, which is the magic ingredient."
Radiohead release The King of Limbs – live coverage. Radiohead's new album, The King Of Limbs, has been released 24 hours earlier than expected. Here's how it happened
Such was the demand that Radiohead brought the release of their new album ‘The King Of Limbs’ forward to today (February 18) - and that means Gigwise is the first to bring you a track-by-track guide review.
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Radiohead tweet mysterious Tokyo location ahead of new album release
Band spark rumours of performance in Japanese city
February 17, 2011 | 0 Comments
The band posted the message in Japanese on their official Twitter.com page, Twitter.com/radiohead, this morning (17).
It roughly translates as: "Hachiko Square Shibuya, 59 minutes at 18 Friday". The square is one of the notoriously busy 'pedestrian roads' in Tokyo.
Fans are now speculating that the band may appear at the square at 18:59 (JST) tomorrow, which would be 4:59am UK time on Saturday morning. Radiohead have so far not elaborated on what the message means, and their spokesperson said they would not be commenting on the tweet.
Their new album 'The King Of Limbs' is tipped to feature eight songs, although the band have said that they will not release tracklisting details ahead of its release.
17 Twitter accounts Radiohead official day "Friday 18 23:59 Shibuya Hachiko Square" and tweet in the reviews, the band's public relations in the Shibuya appear prior to the release of the album the band has denied rumors that . NME spokesman for the question, "the band might not be the day of Japan. So everybody went to Shibuya to meet with members expected to be." Are answered.The services performed by the band performance on the 18th national label, the band's hostess, Inc. has announced on the site . Hachiko crossing in Shibuya overlooking the LED Vision "Q'S EYE" There is, in some of the broadcast is made and there are rumors that influential theory.
The tree is an oak in Wiltshire's Savernake Forest, thought to be around 1,000 years old. The forest lies around three miles away from Tottenham House, a listed country house where Radiohead recorded part of 2007’s 'In Rainbows'
This is the real King of Limbs (Savernake Fores UK)
I'm hunting the largest privately owned forest in the UK to find clues about the new Radiohead album. 'King Of Limbs' is named after one of the oldest trees in Savernake Forest - one of the oldest in Europe, in fact - and something tells me I'm getting close. The paths ended an hour ago, and even with the morning light, the depth of darkness between the increasingly dense trees is becoming ominous. I really must be close.
Radiohead have grown familiar to Wiltshire. It began when they recorded 'OK Computer' in a mansion near Bath, which began their affinity for recording in grand houses. They returned to the county to record part of 'In Rainbows' at Tottenham House, the grand mansion that reigns over Savernake Forest. "It was literally an old country pile," Ed O’Brien told Mojo in 2008, "huge and crumbling at the seams... Stanley [Donwood], who does all our artworks, said the ley lines were not very forgiving."
They spent three weeks there, recording live their most energetic songs from the album, 'Bodysnatchers' and 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place'. Between recording, they had the extensive forest to explore, with Thom reportedly being struck by the sound of a barking stag guarding it's territory. But Thom became sick, and with only a damp caravan to recover in, they soon returned to an Oxford studio. Before leaving, producer Nigel Godrich sampled the reverb from the mansion's grand chamber, which was applied to much of the album, notably Thom's vocal on 'House Of Cards'.
Perhaps the drawing of a six-limbed monster revealed on radiohead.com for the 'King Of Limbs'' official announcement offers a clue. King Henry VIII hunted here, where he famously met his third wife Jane Seymore (not the actress, of course) whose father owned the forest. They lived here at Wolf Hall, better known since the Booker-prize winning novel. Could each of the six limbs represent the ill-fated wives of the English dictator?
Although access to the 'King Of Limbs' is difficult, Savernake houses the largest concentration of ancient trees in Europe, a status only achieved when it's age is close to a millenia and the structure appears so strikingly complex that the appearance becomes a landmark. But the 'King Of Limbs' is the tree hunter's goldmine. Said to be older than England (which became a state in 927), few know where to find it and less are prepared to tell. Before my journey, I found a source who was unwilling to reveal the 'King Of Limbs'' exact location, but more than happy to challenge me with his cryptic advice. "Head towards Birch Copse, a third mile from Crockmere Oak" he tells in his thick Wiltshire drawl. I have no idea what he means. "Yes, King Of Limbs lost major branches, but still, 'tis magnificent."
I want to turn back, but I see a clearing ahead. The last of the thin whipping branches hit my rain-beaten face, and finally, I see it. The King Of Limbs. The sight of this oak leaves me no doubt, but a wooden sign confirms the landmark. It stands grand and majestic, the bark slick with rain and litchen. Two branches lay on the ground beside it, themselves large enough to appear an independant felled tree. I walk around the trunk's supposed 11-metre girth to stand in the hollow cavernous stump.
I imagine Thom Yorke standing here together in staggered disbelief, just as I am. Civilisations have risen in less time than this tree. I wonder if I should rummage through the hollow in case the band left a memento for the keenest fans, but to trek here has been obsessive enough. I take some photos, sit for a while, and begin my walk back.
Radiohead co-manager Chris Hufford has outlined the reasons for Radiohead’s surprise move to release their forthcoming album online with only a few days notice, in an exclusive interview with Music Week.
Hufford, one of the founders of Courtyard Management, said that the move to make Radiohead’s eighth studio album The King Of Limbs available to download on Saturday February 19 via bespoke website thekingoflimbs.com, more than a month before a physical release via XL Recordings, is a “logical progression” from the release strategy behind previous album In Rainbows.
He explained that Courtyard and the band learned what aspects of the In Rainbows release worked and what aspects did not during the campaign. The decision was made not to take an ‘honesty box’ approach with The King Of Limbs, as they had with In Rainbows.
Following The King Of Limbs' release on CD, vinyl and download via XL on March 28, the album will be available in a multi-format deluxe set, described as a “newspaper album” via thekingoflimbs.com on May 9.
Hufford explains that the set, which includes two ten-inch records, a CD, artwork and a download, will be housed in a package designed as a newspaper.
From the £6 price tag of the MP3 release to the move to initially bypass traditional retail routes, Hufford said every decision made has been done with Radiohead’s fans in mind.
“Our allegiances are to the band. We manage Radiohead, we don’t manage retail or labels, we just manage the band and are just trying to do the best possible thing to allow another brilliant record to be embraced by the fanbase,” said Hufford.
For the full interview see Music Week magazine this Monday.
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Radiohead's manager Chris Hufford has described the release plan for the band's new album 'The King Of Limbs' as a "logical progression".
The record will be released as a paid-for download on Saturday (February 19), then on CD and 12-inch vinyl on March 28.
In 2007 the band released their 'In Rainbows' album as a pay-what-you-like download before it came out physically in 2008. As well as calling the new paid-for download a "logical progression", Hufford said he was trying to look after the band's interests by charging this time round.
"Our allegiances are to the band," he said. "We manage Radiohead, we don’t manage retail or labels, we just manage the band and are just trying to do the best possible thing to allow another brilliant record to be embraced by the fanbase."
'The King Of Limbs' will also be released on May 9 as what the band are billing as a 'newspaper album'. The package features the album on 10-inch vinyl and CD plus artwork sheets designed to look like a newspaper.
Radiohead fansite Ateaseweb.com crashed under the weight of hits yesterday (14) morning as fans searched for information about the new album.
Blog - Radiohead's 'The King Of Limbs', what we know
Blog – What will 'The King Of Limbs' sound like?
The Shockwaves NME Awards Tour 2011 takes place throughout February, while Shockwaves NME Awards Shows are also taking place in London throughout the month. See NME.COM/TICKETS for details.
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Almost a year since the announcement that he’d be scoring Lynne Ramsey’s new film You Were Never Really Here, composer and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has finally unveiled the first song from the upcoming score. Titled “Dark Streets,” the song is a barebones synth and drum machine number that builds to menacing darkwave heights. Greenwood’s soundtrack drops digitally March 9 via Invada Records/Lakeshore Records, with a vinyl release to follow. You Were Never Really Here stars Joaquin Phoenix and arrives in theaters April 6. Check out “Dark Streets” below.
The You Were Never Really Here soundtrack is out now via Invada Records.
what we might be listening to in the office, `'what office?`' `'you know, at work" "oh.. right. is that what you call it?"..........
1. One Ting (Dabrye Remix) >King Midas Sound >Cool Out (Dabrye / Flying Lotus Remix) 2. Serious Times (Truth & Soul Vocal Version) >Gyptian >These Are Some Serious Times 3. Indian Thick Jawns feat. P.E.A.C.E >Diplo >Florida 4. The_Dark_Side_Of_The_Sun_2000_And_One_Remix_>Modeselektor 5. Pathwayz >Digital Mystikz 6. Double Checked > Sascha Funke 7. Bad Boy Lick A New Shot >Ninjaman, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man and Ninja Ford 8. Ick Muss Aus Dit Millieu Heraus >Paul Kalkbrenner 9. harrowdown logic jump rmx 10. Air (Featuring Doom) >Dabrye >Two/Three 11. Angels And Demons At Play >Sun Ra 12. Press The Trigger >Poison Chang >Rumble In The Jungle 13. South Rakkas Crew Remix >The Bug >Poison Dart 14. Encoded Flow (Featuring Kadence) >Dabrye >Two/Three 15. Pussyole (Old Skool) >Dizzee Rascal >Maths + English 16. >John Adams eerrrr... stuff
(2). 2008-12-06 Christmas Skanking at Dunkan's
Willie Williams Messenger man, and Armagideon time. - All The Way
Innocent Youths Earth, Roots and Water
Tougher than tough/iroy/glen brown Do your thing vers. Chosen few - federal and harry j studios Kingston 1971-73
Tristan Palma How can a man be happy Trojan B/W Barry brown - living as a brother
Toots and the maytals Pass the pipe
The congos - Feast
Ltj bukem- logical progression
Knowledge - straight outta trenchtown
(3). 2009-01-06 back to the office
sitting on the photocopier while the phone rings off the hook and the emails pour down the screen drinking sandy waterd down coffee while printing out this weeks office chart>
1. Robert Wyatt Stay Tuned 2. Matmos Les Folies Françaises 3. Darkstar Need You 4. Kwaidan Hoichi < kwaidan 5. Four tet Ringer < Ringer Ep 6. Public Enemy Night of the living baseheads 7. The Sight Below At first touch 8. Nina Simone I put a spell on you < feeling good 9. Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek Cello Recycling < cello recycling 10. Plastikman Ping Pong < Closer Thom
(4). 2009-01-25 this weeks office chart
london air conditioning in the middle of winter. recycling dead cells. sucking the moisture out of me until i feel utterly dessicated. i put my headphones on and pretend i'm working.
'Ghost Town' by the Specials 'Dirtbox' by Harmonic 313 from When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence 'Homeless (Quarta 330 rmx)' by Cardopusher 'Little Acorns' by Leila Feat. Khemal & Thaon Richardson from Blood, Looms And Blooms 'Hotta' by T.O.K. 'Goodnight Georgie' by Clinic from Internal Wrangler 'Caution Me' by The Chap from Mega Breakfast 'Mad Again (Jokers Of The Scene - Trancehall Mix) by South Rakkas Crew from Mad Again (Drop The Lime / Fake Blood Mixes) 'I'll Be Seeing You' by Billie Holiday 'Impossible Bouquet' by No Age from Nouns
Tried to do a Spotify arab collection.....but no Laila Mourad, or Um Khalthum, or much Abdel Halim Hefez on spotify yet......so it's bolstered with some random classical stuff - but then, it's all orchestras sitting down, right?
Talking of which - found out this week about the old Baghdad music school for blind children - hence the shaded musicians in arab orchestras, the prevalence of which I could never understand. I (offensively?) assumed it was just 60's iraqi hipsters being 60's iraqi hipsters...though they were that too, of course.... jonny
(6). 2009-03-12 Office chart for South America
(having washed me smalls and sort of packed)
Champion Sound by Jaylib from Champion Sound So Scientific by Dabrye from One/Three Monday Massacre by Mr Oizo from Flat Beat Ep Don and Sherri by Matthew Dear from Asa Breed You & Me by The Bug from London Zoo Space Beatle by The Beta Band from Heroes to Zeros Silence by Pj Harvey from White Chalk (hi Polly!) Rinaldo: Aria: "Augellette, che cantate" by Academy of Ancient Music from Handels Rinaldo (1711 version) Lilac Wine by Nina Simone from Diva: Nina Simone
wish us all a safe journey if you still like us and you're not one of those people i have managed to offend by doing nothing xx
Thom
(7). 2009-05-06 bank holiday
the official office chart for aint no-one here except me the cleaner
1. Alphabet Aerobics (The Cut Chemist 2 1/2 Minute Workout) by Blackalicious 2. Nannou by Aphex Twin off the WIndowlicker Ep 3. Lars Von Sen by Mr Oizo off Lambs Anger 4. Steroids (feat Uffie) by Mr Oizo off Lambs Anger 5. A break in the the clouds (beats tool) by James Holden 6. La Mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires meme by Marcel Duchamp (apologise if this is not correct) 7. Saul, HWV 53, Act III scene V.78. Chorus "Mourn, Israel" written by Handel performed by Rias Kammerchor, Rene Jacobs & Concert Koln 8. Numbers by Kraftwerk off Computer World 9. Black Sun by Kode9 off Black Sun/ 2 Far Gone 10.Ripped Knees by No Age off Nouns
(8). 2009-05-22 office chart for friday
and... - with Alternate artwork by Boo!
leave work early, sit in the traffic, and listen to our fickle tastes
1. Moth by Burial & Fourtet 2. Forward Youth by Rsd 3. Q & A by Fink 4. Piano.Wav by Machinefabriek 5. solitary and time-breaking waves by John Luther Adams 6. the Farthest place by John Luther Adams 7. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) by Marvin Gaye 8. Charlie's House (apparat mx) by Nathan Fake 9. Short Circuit(C64 bypass mix) by Steve Poindexter 10.HOt topic by Le Tigre
Love and kisses
(9). 2009-06-06 Office Chart
(Or, according to my itunes playlist: "My hippity-hop tape for Ori, who doesn't have/doesn't like this kind of thing"......)
Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called Quest
Follow the Leader - Eric B & Rakim Strange Eyes - RZA/Ghost Dog soundtrack Air Hoodlum - Public Enemy (he's a basketball fan....) Take Notice - J Dilla Deez Nuuuts - Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg Zip Code - RZA/Black Knights I Left My Wallet... - A Tribe Called Quest Testin' Me - Dudley Perkins Bring The Noise - Public Enemy Reunited - Wu Tang Clan Wild - J Dilla Don't Believe the Hype - Public Enemy Microphone Fiend - Eric B. and Rakim Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called Quest
.....wonder if it'll convert him?
Jonny
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(10). 2009-06-24 Office Chart (for Virgilio Anderson, instead of rain...)
This week I'm into first goes....and:
Bartok Violin Concerto No,1 Brahms 1st Symphony Penderecki 1st Symphony John Cage First Inerlude for Prepared Piano Shostakovitch Piano Trio No. 1 in C Minor Bartok First String Quartet Debussy First (and last) string quartet (G Minor) Ravel (ditto) in F
..are all ace
Jonny
(11). 2009-09-14 office chart for grey dewy mornings
kindly compiled by Booboo - thanks to him!! :-)
1. Hull Drum and Bass by Ceephax from Exidy Tours 2. Huyendo Pt.2 by Alex Cortex from Huyendo EP 3. Bad Organs by Hate Hello Darkness/Bad Organs 4. Becalmed by Brian Eno from Another Green World 5. J&W Beat by Floating Points from J & W Beat 6. very 2 (bonus) by Lucky Dragons from Dream Island Laughing Language 7. L'Ascension: IV. Prière Du Christ Montant Vers Son Père by Messian / Marius Constant 8. Estampes, L. 100: I. Pagodes Pascal Rogé/ Debussy Thom
(12). 2009-10-07 Room Music
Good out of speakers in rooms:
Borodin String Quartet – Schubert : String Quintet in C major D956 : II Adagio Sepp Grotenhuis – Berg - 5 Altenberg Lieder, Op. 4 (Version For Piano, Harmonium, Violin And Cello): 5 Altenberg Lieder, Op. 4: No. 5. Hier Ist Friede Belcea Quartet – Deutillux - Ainsi la Nuit: I Nocturne Ligeti Project – Ligeti : Melodien Martin Fröst – Penderecki - Clarinet Quartet: II. Vivacissimo David Grimal – Bartok - Sonata for solo violin SZ 117 - Melodia Yehudi Menuhin – Beethoven - 3eme Mvt Finale Presto Son Kreutzer Op47 Vl Pn George Crumb – Black Angels: God-music Kenneth Cooper – Bach - Sonata No. 1 in G Major for Cello and Harpsichord, BWV 1027/III. Andante - Instrumental Pierre Charial – Ligetti Continuum - Instrumental
Or on Spotify.
Jonny
(13) 2009-10-18 Century of piano
thx a million to Boo!
Messiaen - Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus : III L'échange Dutilleux - Anne Queffelec – Sonata for Piano: II Ligeti - Jürgen Hocker – Continuum - Instrumental Szymanowski – Martin Roscoe - 20 Mazurkas, Op. 50 : No. 1 Cage - Philipp Vandre – The Perilous Night - VI Debussy - Jos Van Immerseel – Images No. 2 - Dans Un Mouvement D'une "Sarabande" Messiaen - Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus : XI Première communion de la Vierge Britten - Rolf Hind – Variations for solo piano: III Thomas Ades – Thomas Ades - Darknesse visible Ravel - Yukie Nagai – Gaspard De La Nuit: II. Le Gibet
So many great sounds from one box and 88 strings.....
If you've got Spotify, listen here ...
Jonny
(14). 2009-10-31 happy f***in halloweed : bring out yer dead
thanks to pukirocks!
1. Goodbye Rute by The Tuss frm Rush Edge 2. Automatic Lover by Dj Blaqstarr frm Supastarr Ep 3. Laika Likes it by Octa Push on 1975 4. Simple Things (Serge Sanitago Rmx) by Shit Robot from Simple Things(work it out) 5. Out of my mind (mono) by Buffalo Springfield of the Neil Young Archive thing 6. Oubilian by Igbayen from The Festival in the desert 7. Plateux 2 End by Alvo Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto
The E N d Thom
(15). 2009-11-17 as i sweep up the last of the leaves
and the autumn sun is out
MANY THANKS to PUKIROCKS
1. Intro + Gold Love Riddim by Tapes from Hissing Theatricals 2. Herzog by Clark from Warp20: Chosen 3. Square Footage by Luke Vibert from We Hear You 4. Take A Ride Version by Dub Specialist from Studio One Dub 5. Incredible by M Beat General Levy from Rumble in the Jungle 6. Quiet Dog by Mos Def from The Ecstatic 7. Dinamo by Nathan Fake from Dinamo 8. Drane by Autechre from Warp20:Chosen 9. Nordic House by Ceephax from Exidy Tours
1. Prelude in D Major, Op. 23 No. 4>> Vladimir Ashkenazy & James Walker Rachmaninov: Preludes 2. There's A World [Live At Massey Hall 1971]>> Neil Young from Neil Young Archives Volume I [1963 - 1972] 3. CELLZ>> Doom from BORN LIKE THIS 4. RN2-09 PT1 + PT >> AOKI Takamasa from ununtrium / RN-RHYTHM-VARIATIONS 5. Magnetfeld>> Feadz from 10 Years of BPitch Control 6. Everyone>> The Aliens from Luna 7. Hyper (Instrumental)>> Illum Sphere from Incoming Ep 8. Ghost Train Acid>> Ceephax Acid Crew from Bainted Smile - EP
Thom
(17). 2009-12-03 office chart .. one for the road THANKS!!!! to pukirocks http://www.mediafire.com/?yymi3zmmwzg1. Olson 1:29 by Boards Of Canada Music Has The Right to Children 2. Get Off (Rob3 Remix) by Blaqstarr & Diplo Get Off - EP 3. It's Gonna Rain, Part I (1965) by Steve Reich Early Works 4. Piano Concerto : II. Lento e deserto by Ligeti Project Ligeti: Melodien, Chamber Concerto, Piano Concerto & Mysteries of the Macabre 5. Open Up The Gate by The Congos Heart Of The Congos 6. clusters on a quadrilateral grid 2 by Percussion Group Cincinnati John Luther Adams: Strange and Sacred Noise 7. Dance Dance Dance [Previously Unreleased Version] by Neil Young Neil Young Archives Volume I
Thom
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(18). 2010-02-08 a week of number 13s <--a.k.a. thom, stop posting 'drafts'!!
(and many many thanks to pukirocks for this!!)
1. Murderer by Low from Drums and Guns
2. Hotel Freund by Black to Comm from Alphabet 1968
3. If you go away by Scott Walker from Scott 3
4. Ancestors by Gonjasufi from 2010 from Warp Records
5. Turn it on (instrumental) by Mark Pritchard & Steve Spacek
6. These Words ft. dbridge by Martyn from Great Lengths
7. I think UR a Contra by Vampire Weekend from Contra
Thom
still incl. as a B-side:
Homenagem A Unios do Viradouro by Macunaima from Sambas de Enredo 2000 Ate 2006
(19). 2010-03-03 sticky Tar Chart
(many many thanks to pukirocks !!)
this is an office chart for all u shareholders out there>>>>
Intro: Live At Skateland (1986) Cutty Ranks
Brothers Gonna Work It Out Public Enemy Fear Of Black Planet
Cyclic Bit Raymond Scott
Audience No. 2 Autolux
New York Is Killing Me (original clapping version) Gil Scott-Heron
1. Twilight Speedball by Mos Def 2. Fancy Clown by Allah's Reflection, Mavillain & Viktor Vaughn 3. Baiafro by The Gaslamp Killer 4. Exhibit C by Jay Electronica 5. Penny's Confession by Ras G 6. Lose my Fuse by Muhsinah feat. Flying Lotus 7. MIA by MIA 8. Holidays by Gonjasufi 9. Itas important by Samiyam 10. Purify by Untold
Thom
(21). 2010-05-06out of office autoreply
on election day in these fair british isles.. avert your cynical eyes
1. The Lunatics(Have taken over the Asylum) by Fun Boy Three
2. Splitting the Atom by Massive Attack
3. Les Folies Françaises by Matmos
4. Sticky Situation(Toddla T & Seiji Mix) by Lady Chan
5. Veni vidi vici (Diplo rmx) by Black Lips
6. Mass in B Minor BWV 232, Credo: Chorus: Et Incarnatus Est Bach Mass in B minor by Münchner Philharmoniker & Sergiu Celibidache
7. Into Dust by Mazzy Star
8. My Beautiful Leah by Pj Harvey
9. Analogue Talk(Claknib) by AFX
10. Backdoor. Spyboter.A by AFX
from an old git
Thom
(22). 2010-05-24when you're not in the office_ you're in the park
1. 1977 Ana Tijoux 2. Ante Up Danny Drive thru 3. Formula Aphex Twin 4. Naima John Coltrane Quartet (village vanguard recordings) 5. The Heist Jaylib 6. Fram Blawan 7. Pneumonia Bjork 8. Chapel of Ghouls Boy 8-bit
Braid (various) Marathon (Mac) Goldeneye (N64) Elite (BBC Micro) Cave Story (various) Ico (PS2) Red Dead Redemption (PS3) Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64) Zelda Twighlight Princess (Wii) Half Life 1 and 2 (Mac, PS3)
Having written that, I think Ico might be the best one. Now back to Bonnie's ranch....
Jonny
(24). 2010-06-19 Office Chart for a bitter tasting saturday
1. the big ship brian eno 2. slurs and slowly isan 3. triangle folds inside out james holden 4. magnetic warrior archie bronson outfit 5. goodmorning sunshine quasimoto 6. 3 Tot 1 Zonder Toaster Aardvark 7. fog bank boy 8-bit 8. Leuk HeLeuk He Aardvark 9. bite it & believe it archie bronson outfit 10. claptrap joe
in a dusty field on the other side of the valley v e r y f a r aw ay from 'hospitality' and media coverage
1. Nothing to see Four Tet (not out yet) 2. Shadows of Tomorrow Madvillain and Quasimoto 3. Mad Again (Boy 8-bit) South Rakkas Crew 4. 3hree Aardvarck 5. Aftermath Nightmares on Wax 6. 9 Aphex Twin 7. Silversand Mesak 8. Xerrox Sora 1 Alva Noto 9. Lady jane the rolling stones
Thom
(26). 2010-10-09horizontals ..
office chart born out of cold empty horizontal lines
1. Pitter by Ramadanman 2. Back Down by Dj Nate 3. Neon Bible by Arcade Fire 4. Man Out of Time (Major Space dub) by Redshape 5. My Only Friend (Hezus rmx) by Gonjasufi 6. No More by Billie Holiday 7. Jeep's Blues Duke Ellington (Ellington at Newport 1956) 8. Teknitian by Dj Rashad
Thom
(27). 2010-10-17office chart.. for autumn.. if u have that
(28 ). 2010-11-04office chart.. tea bags for the fly over lands
THANKS TO PUKIROCKS!!
priceless artwork by Boo!
1. Crosswinds by J. Tillman 2. Raga Megh Malhar by Charanjit Singh 3. VCR(Four tet rmx) by XX 4. Forget About by Sibylle Baier 5. Hot Swap by Pablo Mandelbrot 6. In The Deep by T.Williams 7. The Leap Home Pt.2 by Radio People 8. For 12 by Other Lives a desert emptiness can breed fear and ignorance. visit the sea and see the wider picture.
1.King Of Clubs - Apparat 2.Senorita - Actress 3.South London Boroughs- Burial 4.Organ Concerto in A Minor, BWV 593 after Vivaldi's Concerto Op. 3, No. 8 - Wolfgang Rübsam 5.Whole World - Aloe Blacc 6.Mosh Pit - DJ Trouble 7.The Curlew - Nathan Fake 8.The Turtle - Nathan Fake 9.A Jackson In Your House - The Art Ensemble of Chicago 10. Kill A Man With A Joystick In Your Hand - D'eon 11. Supreme Cunnilingus - Actress
Thom
(31). 2011-02-11
office chart...
1.Fog (Jamie xx Remix) Nosaj Thing Drift (Remixed) 2.Tripped Up Ramadanman Re-Edit Shortstuff Mickey Pearce 3. Sun Days Macc & dgoHn 4. Keep Time Shed 5. Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903: Fantasia Christophe Rousset Bach: Harpsichord Works 6. SP Morgan Zarate 7. Chazm Julio Bashmore 8. Seamonkey (Untold Remix) Moderat 9. Stereo Freeze Untold 10. 7c 1020 Macc & dgoHn
1. Running Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX 2. Free Dj Nate 3. Albert Anstam 4. AllaYali Abdel Halim Hafez 5. Ibitsu Boris 6. After all Duke Ellington 7. Sun (Altrice's Only What You Gave me mx) Caribou 8. Ur Soul and Mine Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX 9. Memory Implant Instra:mental
new music is my best friend!.. and old stuff i've never heard. don't ever think it's not out there.. cuz it is.
always i gotta get my fix.........
1. The Healer by Erykah Badu
2. Geek Down by J Dilla
3. Over the breaks by J Dilla
4. Doyoi Nyajo Nam by Owiny Sigoma Band
5. Real (nathan fake rmx) by Avus
6. Whitebox by Luke Abbott
7. btstu by Jai Paul
8. Ain't gonna lie by Deadboy
9. Nights Off by Siriusmo
10. Lambi Judai by Reshma (sufis at the cinema compilation)
Thom
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** and art by Daniel Garber :-) THX!
MORE art - from Boo :-)
(36). 2011-08-08 office chart
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even though there is no-one in the office. we've gawn fishing. well i havent. neither's anyone else. the sun comes out occasionally here, but then we get wet. im not answering me emails. much. im listening to these.. amongst other things
1. O God Protect Me by Ben Frost 2. Mozaik by Zomby 3. Juke Me From The Back Low by Dj Slugo 4. I Just Woke uP by Wiley 5. Sacred Frequency by Machinedrum 6. Radiance by Surgeon 7. Phoenix(fantastic mr fox remix) by Hyetal 8. German Clap by Modeselektor 9. Hibakusja by Ben Frost 10. The Sun Too Slow by Chris Clark 11. 100%publishing by Wiley 12. Things Fall Apart by Zomby
Thom
art by Daniel Garber - thx!
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(37). 2011-09-18 office chart in high winds
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Brought to you by Pukirocks!!! - thank you for saving our day :-)
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1. Hey, All You Hippies! by the Low Anthem 2. Canto de Ossanha by Baden Powell and Vinicius Moraes 3. Sideways by Samiyam 4. Our Luv by Africa Hitech 5. Tissues and Fivers by Gang Colours 6. Stop What Your Doing(James Blake rmx) by Untold & James Blake 7. Hera by Owiny Sigoma Band 8. Tronman by Falty DL 9. Black Angels-X. God-Music by George Crumb performed by The Miro Quartet
"Hey All You Hippies!! You got a bad name ever since you let yer gaurd down!!"
1. Popgun by Martyn 2. Walla Illa (feat. Tunde Adebimpe) by Tinariwen 3. Digimon by Dj Diamond 4. Boudler Holder by Madvillian 5. Here Come the Warm Jets by Brian Eno 6. Magic Says by Dabrye 7. Cosmogony by Bjork 8. Bangin by Si Begg 9. look at stars (Machinedrum rmx) by SbtrkT 10. Stomp Yo feet (part1) by Theo Parrish
Chosen for and WARMLY dedicated to the brave souls PEACEFULLY sleeping on concrete OCCUPYing Wall Street and the City and elsewhere in the world, attempting to express the anger and disgust most humans feel for the institutions that have failed to serve the needs of all but a few of the human beings of this planet. Now yet those same institutions demand that we bail them out and in so doing sacrifice our own and our children's chances of a reasonable and safe financial future.
'Bangin Motherfuckers........'
now i need to go and do something fluffy :)
Thom
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-- art by Daniel - as always :-) - THX!
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(39). 2011-11-03 dominoes
once they start fallin'.... you know what i'm sayin
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Brought to you by Pukirocks who never lets up down! :-)
1 Ahora by Daphni 2.Falmer by Nathan Fake 3.Kitty Cradle Fog by Dimlite 4.Dance for Life by Aloe Blacc 5.Credit Theme by Emika 6.Outro by Strong Arm Steady 7.New Love ft. Planet Asia & Tri-state by Strong Arm Steady 8.C.Q. by Clinic 9.Black Fresian Monoliths by Anstam 10.Tunnel 3 by Sleet Walker 11.Mentor by Actress
the office is in fact full of people measuring things and making lists but i have struggled my way to the photocopier to send you an office chart
sit back and enjoy..
1. It was all a dream by Zomby 2. Stayput by Aardvark 3. Percussion One by Percussions 4. Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never 5. Shyness is Golden by Kid606 6. An iceberg hurled northward through clouds by Gold Panda 7. An echo from the hosts that profess infitium by Shabazz Palaces 8. Conquistador by Yesterdays New Quintet 9. Larari-Olala by Jorge Ben 10. The perilous NIght: VI.- by John Cage.. played by Phillipp Vandre 11. Cactus by Objekt 12. La La by The Stepkids 13. Didn't cha Know by Erykah Badu
Thom
(41). 2012-02-21 Office Chart
Mixed bag of stuff for yer ears - some sufi qawwals, some 50's chopin jazz covers, some californian 60's rock. Now can I be in pseuds corner?
1. Daras Bin / To Die In Love - Shye Ben-Tzur 2. No Other Love - Jo Stafford 3. Habibi Baheb el tesh - Hoda Rohana 4. Candlebird - Martin Suckling 5. Dalina - Dudu Tassa 6. Time Was - Canned Heat 7. Dance Figures, Nine Choreographic Scenes for Orchestra: 1 Spell - George Benjamin 8. Dancing - Shye Ben-Tzur 9. Penderecki - 5th Symphony - Antoni Wit/Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra 10. Schulhoff String Quartets
Jonny
(42). 2012-05-06 Dot Connectors
I was very sad to hear the news of Adam Yauch's death yesterday. We looked up to the Beastie Boys a lot when we were starting out and how they maintained artistic control making wicked records but still were on a major label, and the Tibetan Freedom Concerts they organized had a very big influence on me personally and the way Adam conducted himself and dealt with it all impressed me a lot. He was a mellow and v smart guy. May he rest in peace.
On another note check this out> people connecting the dots of our weird weather patterns, though the climate change deniers still frantically shout their voice is getting quieter. climate dots around the world
and some music..
kindly assembled by Pukirocks with some help from Radiofran - thank you guys!
1. Kurduli Hidjazkiar Taxim Kementchedi Alecco Open Strings 2. Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet The Ultimate Collection 3. Too Polite Feat. Louis Vines Throwing Snow 4. When the Ship Comes In Bob Dylan 5. Gene Piece, R.A.I Bird Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer 6. Strange Fruit Sidney Bechet 7. Shake Your Rump Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique 8. Ghana: Voices & Percussion Vocalists and drummers of Ghana African Rhythms & Instruments: Vol 1 9. Caves Of Paradise Actress R.I.P. 10.Ascending Actress R.I.P. 11.Ocoras Four Tet
Thom
(43). 2012-05-22 Office Chart ... out from under a blanket
i thought it was a tough thing. but it aint.. its fragile. and precious in it's own strange way. it's small but it don't know it's own strength. so fragile. only held together by the people who carry it. Lord knows where it comes fromX
1. Leave things by Shed 2. After All by David Bowie 3. Let's get it started by Dj Roc 4. Joyful Exaltation (feat. Bajka) by The Whitefield Brothers 5. Money and Food (remix) by Jeremiah Jae 6. Wow by Laurel Halo 7. Lullaby for Lagos by The Whitefield Brothers 8. Dumb by Luke Abbott 9. Niger by Orchestra of the Sultan of Zinder 10. Borin Convo by Doom 11. Come1 by Machinedrum
An office chart that for the end of the Tea Party. To be played in the background while the facades and faces melt.
Blackpool Late Eighties Holden
Fall of Another Year Can
Killing Days Traxman **
Brighter Dayz Dj Rashad
Glare Lil Silva *
Japan Traxman
Ti prego amami(film version) Ennio Morricone
Rannoch Dawn Holden
Thom
*missing - may not be released yet
** killing fields????
NOW - I am officially making this 50th chart THE LAST ONE on this blog since we are maxed out on character count. From 51 and on we will start A-new!!!
01 – Bloom - 02 - Little By Little - 03 – Staircase - 04 - The National Anthem- 05 – Feral- 06 - Subterranean Homesick Alien - 07 - Like Spinning Plates - 08 - All I Need - 09 - True Love Waits / Everything In Its Right Place - 10 - 15 Step - 11 - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - 12 - Lotus Flower - 13 – Codex - 14 - The Daily Mail - 15 - Morning Mr. Magpie - 16 – Reckoner – ENCORE 17 - Give Up The Ghost - 18 – Myxomatosis - 19 – Bodysnatchers - SECOND ENCORE - 20 – Supercollider - 21 - Nude
Yorke began “Everything in Its Right Place” with an interpolation of “The One I Love,” by R.E.M., hardly an oblique gesture — much of the new material landed with accumulated weight. And at nearly every opportunity Mr. Yorke was in motion, his gangly but limber dance moves pointing to the savvy behind his self-consciousness.
2. Little By Little 3. Staircase
4. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
5. Feral
6. Subterranean Homesick Alien
7. All I Need
8. Everything In Its Right Place (intro: “The One I Love” de R.E.M.)
9. Lotus Flower
10. 15 Step
11. Myxomatosis
12. Codex
13. The Daily Mail
14. Bodysnatchers
15. Reckoner16. Give Up The Ghost
17. The National Anthem
18. Morning Mr Magpie19. Street Spirit (Fade Out) / 20. Nude
SourceSome ticket holders for this week's New York shows have chosen to re-sell one or both of their allocation on auction sites. Using a 2 ticket limit and will-call only access with ID, we have tried to ensure that more tickets go to the people who prefer to see the show than to cheat fellow fans with re-selling tickets at exorbitant prices.For those of you who have to pay over the face value of the ticket, PLEASE make sure that you are certain you can get into the show before parting with your money. A ticket is only valid with its matching credit card details and the ID of the purchaser, after which the ticket holder will be escorted straight through.
New York update: On a lighter note, we played on The Colbert Report last night.
Radiohead performed on Saturday Night Live: The Daily Mail, Bloom, Little by Little and The National Anthem on the Colbert Report. The band even had time for an interview
thanks very much for joining up! it'd be very quiet in here indeed otherwise.
for those who are interested and want to stick around, we'll be adding plenty more bits and pieces in the coming weeks and ironing out any wrinkles or annoyances the best we can. hope you find something interesting to play with.
w.a.s.t.e. x
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I'm trying to score some tickets to the DC show at Verizon Center! happy ticket hunting to everyone! I just saw went to Radiohead's show at Houston last week (my spring break) and these guys can deliver my first RH concert they were amazing.. crowd went nuts when they ended with Paranoid Android!
Our The King of Limbs - From The Basement programme is going to be aired in the USA this Saturday 23rd July at 9pm on Palladia, followed by a second showing on MTV2the following Saturday.
Apologies for the delay getting From The Basement shown in the UK: the original broadcaster decided not to show it, but we are working on it getting it shown on another channel.
"I wear lampshades on my head and stand in people’s living rooms. They’re like ‘Billy can you go turn on the light?’ and I whisper ‘you mean turn on the thom yorke’ *chortle*"Thom Yorke
AfterMorning Mr. Magpie Colin said: No, anyway, here’s my idea. Now don’t shoot it down straight away, because I’m sure it’s pure gold. You know ouija boards? Well, you could do a WiiGi board. Contact Glaswegian spirits.
BBC Worldwide Music Television has signed a deal with Radiohead to distribute internationally a new and exclusive live performance of Radiohead’s eighth album, ‘The King of Limbs’.
Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live From The Basement is a 55-minute performance from one of the most successful and critically acclaimed acts of their generation, who have sold over 30 million albums worldwide. The programme will feature the notoriously elusive band performing the entirety of their celebrated new album in a studio setting with some additional behind the scenes material. It is scheduled to be the first time that the grammy-award winners are captured on camera this year.
The King of Limbs album was released digitally in February 2011 and physically at the end of March 2011, yet this exclusive performance will be the first time the band will have played this collection of songs in public. The band will be performing for acclaimed music show ‘From the Basement’, the brain child of production genius Nigel Godrich, who has either engineered or produced all of Radiohead’s albums since The Bends and has worked with a variety of international acts including Paul McCartney, U2, R.E.M and Air.
Having launched the title at MIPTV, BBC Worldwide has already received pre-sale offers for a number of major territories and expects to have a substantial network of broadcasters in place for its premiere.
Salim Mukaddam, VP Music Television at BBC Worldwide said, "It is a real honour to be working with Radiohead on this project. Radiohead are a band that rarely performs for television, but when they do, it’s a moment to savour. There is already huge anticipation for this performance and we’re delighted that they’ve decided to work with us at BBC Worldwide, confirming our position as market leaders in Music Television. As a fan I cannot wait to see these beautiful songs brought to life in this programme."
Bryce Edge of Courtyard Management, Radiohead’s management company said, "This will be Radiohead's first collaboration with BBC Worldwide and the band are excited at the prospect of having their first live performance of 'The King of Limbs' broadcast around the world . The band will be filmed and recorded by the From The Basement team, which includes Nigel Godrich their long time producer, Dilly Gent ,who commissioned many of the memorable Radiohead videos and Grant Gee who filmed the Radiohead documentary 'Meeting People is Easy'"
Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement becomes available to international broadcasters in June and is embargoed for broadcast until 1st July 2011. The programme is filmed in HD, will have no audience and no presenter – just a rare opportunity to see an intimate performance from one of the greatest bands in the world.
Emma Jonathan
Canada
Radiohead perform their critically acclaimed masterpiece The King of Limbs in its entirety in their first live appearance of 2011, also marking the first ever live perfomance of these songs.
La banda de rock alternativo Radiohead interpreta su nuevo álbum, The King of Limbs, en exclusiva, por primera y única vez, en un concierto "From The Basement", programa que emite Canal+ Xtra.
Mezcla de un directo en su estado puro y un documental, las cámaras capturan los ensayos antes de la grabación, las bromas entre el grupo y el control...
Producido por Nigel Godrich, productor habitual de "From The Basement" y de Radiohead, se encuentran en un ambiente distendido y relajado, dejando que sea su propio talento el que hable por ellos, sin que presentadores o el público rompan el momento; como si vieras desde un asiento privilegiado una sesión privada de grabación.
It seems a lot of you are unsure of how this whole presale thing is going to go down. While I can't provide complete solid details, I can give you an idea of what may or may not happen based on September's Roseland Ballroom presale.
First of all, saying the tickets are on sale on W.A.S.T.E is deceiving--it may lead you to think that they'll be available in one of three places: 1) the tickets section of the W.A.S.T.E. Corner Store on W.A.S.T.E. Central
2) the Tour section of W.A.S.T.E. (tab at the top of the page) or
In the case of the Roseland Ballroom shows, all three places were INCORRECT. Instead, they were available at radiohead.com/tourdates; you simply had to go there and click on the date of the concert you wanted to go, and then try and check out from there.
My recommendation would be to keep all 4 of these windows open on Wednesday morning, continually refreshing them. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they released tickets in the same way they did for Roseland, on radiohead.com/tourdates, so I'd make that a priority for checking.
Now, for the matter of what time they'll be available. I stayed up the entire night waiting for presale tickets, since I had heard that in the past they've been made available in the wee hours of the morning. However, they didn't go live until a little after 10 am EST, and unfortunately, I was unable to purchase them since I was expecting tickets to be available on one of the W.A.S.T.E. related sites, NOT radiohead.com/tourdates.
So in conclusion: make sure you check the four places I listed above and you can stay up all night if you want to (i can't confirm whether or not they'll be available at some obscure time or not), but the last presale went live at 10 am.
Royal British Legion Aims to Make Chart History With its Official Charity Single: '2 Minute Silence'
The Royal British Legion calls on UK public to send its groundbreaking single to the top of the charts for Remembrance Sunday- Entitled '2 Minute Silence' the single, in the form of a silent video, features top UK celebrities who have donated their time.
The Prime Minister, Thom Yorke and Mark Ronson are amongst a host of celebrities and sports starts featuring in a single to be released by the official charity of remembrance, The Royal British Legion, on 7th November.
Thom aparece apoyando la nueva campaña2 Minute Silence, que intenta llevar al puesto mas alto del chart inglés un simple que consta de 2 minutos de silencio, destinando las ganancias al apoyo de soldados británicos y sus familias
Oct, 12 thanks a lot Inez !!!
Jonny Greenwood will play charity Royal Albert Hall show
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood has been confirmed to appear David Arnold's Concert For Care in London this October.
Greenwood, who wrote the score for the Oscar-winning film There Will Be Blood in 2007, will play the October 18 event at London's Royal Albert Hall alongside a host of composers including Arnold and John Ottman. Special guests including Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson and comedian Matt Lucas will also appear.
Arnold is an ambassador for Care International, which aims to fight global poverty and deliver emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters.
The line up for Concert For Care is:Jonny Greenwood, Ricky Wilson, Jimmy Carr, Imogen Heap, Ed Byrne, Matt Lucas, Paloma Faith, Jil Aigrot, David Arnold, Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, John
Ottman, Patrick Doyle, Craig Armstrong, Anne Dudley, George Fenton, Rachel Portman, Dario Marianelli.
Jonny se presentará en el concierto de caridad organizado por David Arnold en el Royal Albert Hall de Londres el próximo 18 de octubre.
El line up del concierto es: Jonny Greenwood, Ricky Wilson, Jimmy Carr, Imogen Heap, Ed Byrne, Matt Lucas, Paloma Faith, Jil Aigrot, David Arnold, HarryGregson-Williams, John Powell, John Ottman, Patrick Doyle, Craig Armstrong, AnneDudley, George Fenton, Rachel Portman, Dario Marianelli.
The 8th annual Variety Screening Series kicked off Tuesday night with Overture Films' new drama, starring Robert De Niro and Edward Norton. Norton, on hand for a post-screening Q&A at the ArcLight Hollywood, said director John Curran ("The Painted Veil") had been exploring the prison drama for a few years.
"This was John's baby," he said. "When the economy tanked and the financial crisis happened, he said 'We gotta do this now'."
Sitting alongside Variety moderator Peter Debruge, Norton recalled how he and Curran interviewed a number of real-life inmates for the film, which is set in Detriot.
"Fifty percent of the dialogue in this movie came from two guys, in particular," Norton said. "John was like 'If you can do have as well as those two, I'll be thrilled.'"
As for De Niro, whom Norton had previously worked with on "The Score," Norton shook his head and sighed, "Honestly, the last 10 Best Actors couldn't even touch him."
"Everyone has this romanticization of De Niro," he added. "But he's not the intuitive, vocal presence on set at all. He's one of the most right-brained and clinical actors I've ever met. He's like a librarian."
Speaking of scores, Norton also revealed how Radiohead chipped in to create the foundation for the pic's atmospheric music, composed by John O'Brien.
"I'm friends with the guys in Radiohead, And Johnny Greenwood, who did the incredible score for Paul Anderson's 'There Will Be Blood,' met me in London a while back when John (Curran) and I were developing the script," Norton recalls.
"So given the spiritual ties in this film, I started talking to him about this idea: 'What would you use to record this divine-like tuning sound?' And he and Thom (Yorke) had been playing a lot of weird ambient stuff at the time and so, amazingly, they just unloaded tons and tons of files to us of these sound experiments that they had been doing. We just listened to them in awe until John (Curran) eventually got John O'Brien to come in and see what he could make of it."
As the evening wore on, Norton was careful not to forget his character's finely braided corn-rows.
"The moment the hairstylist took them out, I swear to God I looked like Gene Wilder in 'Young Frankenstein.'"
"You could say I'm thankful we didn't get that on film."
"Stone," also starring Milla Jovovich and Frances Conroy, hits theaters Oct. 8.
Thom Yorke y Jonny Greenwood de Radiohead colaboraron en el soundtrack de “Stone”, una nueva película estelarizada por Edward Norton, Robert De Niro y Milla Jovovich.
Norton –quién colaboró en el guión del filme- comentó en una entrevista para la revista Variety: “La película es muy espiritual así que cuando John Curran (director de la película) y yo estábamos trabajando en el guión, le pregunté ‘¿Qué harías para sonorizar la película y poder lograr un sonido espiritual y de divinidad?’ Justamente, Thom Yorke y compañía estaban tocando muchas melodías ambientales y nos enviaron muchos de estos materiales sonoros experimentales y quedamos impresionados con ellos. Eventualmente, le enviamos esos materiales a John O’ Brien para que ver qué podía hacer con ellos.”
Todavía no hay más información sobre si el soundtrack incluirá temas de Radiohead o si sólo contará con ideas sonoras de ellos como parte del score. “Stone” llegará a las salas de cine de Estados Unidos el 8 de octubre de 2010.
Odd things going on in Oxford. In Radiohead’s hometown a series of posters appeared with the text ‘RADIOHEAD RETURN TO SOUTH PARK. SUMMER 2011′.
We’re not referring to a comeback on the South Park animated TV series, which featured Radiohead for an entire episode, but a return to South Park in Oxford. The band played their homecoming gig there on July 7th, 2001. So, who knows, Radiohead might go for the 10 year anniversary of that show. Or maybe, it’s all a hoax. The signs were put up around South Park in the past 24 hours. Either way, thanks to Thomas from Oxford for sending in the picture below. No, not that Thomas, Thomas Williams.
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Circulan rumores en Oxford acerca de un posible show de Radiohead el próximo verano con motivo del décimo aniversario de su legendario show en South Park. Un extraño cartel ha aparecido anunciando el show !!!
For thirty years, the Oxford Music Scene has been producing bands of amazing quality and integrity. Some went on to shape genres and change music on a global scale, others never got heard of outside the town. I've lived in Oxford for most of my life and been a part of that scene for a long time - filming gigs, making music videos and realised it was time to get everyone together to tell the story. It's epic, uplifting, sad, honest and handmade.
Radiohead going back to the studio to 'take stock' of new recorded material
Radiohead is heading back to the studio in a week's time to "take stock" of new material and assess when — and how — it should be released to the world.
Drummer Philip Selway told The Canadian Press the band will regroup next Monday to determine how close the followup to "In Rainbows" is to being ready.
"We've been working on material on and off for a year now and we've had the summer off so yes, we're basically taking stock on Monday and seeing what we need to do with the material to move it to those final stages," Selway said in a telephone interview from Amsterdam on Monday.
"We're just returning to it with fresh ears and taking stock of where we are and how close we are to finishing stuff, really, and we won't know till Monday."
The band is working on the eagerly anticipated followup to its seventh album, "In Rainbows," which sent shock waves through the music world in 2007 when it was first released digitally online, throughthe band's own website, and at an indeterminate "it's up to you" price. The band also streamed a free concert to fans months later on New Year's Eve, and Selway hinted the band might have some more digital or online plans up its sleeves — although he wouldn't say what exactly.
"Whatever we do with any record, it always has to come from the music we've made, whatever we release, and because we're not at that stage at the moment — we haven't finished anything — we don't know how or what's the most appropriate way for getting it out there," he said.
"Then again, you look at the track record of what we've done over the past decade in that area and I suppose, you know, it's probably a safe bet to say there'll be something in there somewhere along the line."
While "In Rainbows" was largely shaped by extensive touring and live
experimentation with the songs, Selway said that won't be the case with the new
project.
"Uh, no," he said laughing.
"I don't know what we'll be doing but the process of making 'In Rainbows' — so much came about through what we were doing live — has been quite the opposite so far. But you never know, we might get back together on Monday and after discussing stuff we might just throw this all out and say maybe we need to go back to the drawing board. Who knows, as I say, it's all up in the air at the moment.
Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood explains why the band released their last album direct to their fans It’s been nearly three years since we announced our “pay what you think it’s worth” scheme for the launch of our last record In Rainbows. I remember the excitement of it all, not least because the release date was my wife’s birthday, 10 October. The idea came from a friend of our manager, who proposed an “honesty box”, placing the onus on people to ask themselves how much they valued our music. Last summer, as we finished some more recordings, we started to think and talk about how to release them. So it seemed a good moment to take stock of the technological and cultural changes that have happened in the meantime.
In August 2007, we had finished our first record after the end of our deal with EMI. Previously, we would have given it to our record company at least three months up front, and then gone through the protracted round of meetings to decide on videos and singles — experiences we’d had for the previous six records. This time there was no EMI, and no one to decide anything but ourselves. We owned it outright, and could do whatever we wanted with it. This coincided with the growth of the internet as a medium to discover and share music, something we had used to reach fans while we made In Rainbows. This desire to use the technology was driven by distrust and frustration with trying to broadcast our music via traditional media, such as radio and television. Music on television is scarce, and hard to do well. Radio has such regulated playlists that disc jockeys are lucky to have one free play per show. Why go exclusively through such straitened formats when you could broadcast directly to people who are interested in you, in that moment?
The other attraction for us was the conjuring up of an event, a way of marking our releases and performances as special, unique times. The internet makes it easier for everything to be live, and that’s what we do.
While we were in our studio, making the last few records, we would schedule last-minute “web casts”, and, at short notice, make small, spontaneous and impromptu programmes where we would play our favourite records, talk to fans, play new and old songs live, and even cover versions of songs from bands that had inspired us. It was stitched together on old Sony cams and video editors from eBay. It did feel like a Ruritanian broadcast, but it was thrilling to be sharing a live moment with our fans that wasn’t mediated by anyone except the internet service provider, and a live show that could be created ten minutes from home. I’d like to think the equivalent of this in broadcasting history would be the mom and pop radio stations that set up in America between the wars, when the excitement of a new medium was explored through the immediate community. In the same way, we saw the internet as a chance to treat the global constituency of Radiohead fans as our community. Also, it helped break up the studio tension, and made us feel less cloistered and isolated while we finished recording.
Against all this positive experience of using net technology, we’d had a bad experience on the previous record, when someone had taken some of the songs from a computer and put them online, well ahead of the official release. Everyone became very careful about carrying songs around, in the car, on CDs, music players and computers. It made you realise how easy it is to store and transmit music once it’s digitised, and that the fundamental thing about music is its destiny to be broadcast or shared. Part of the process of making a record involves listening to new songs or ideas in lots of different places: the car, the kitchen, with friends late at night. Having feelings of mild anxiety about music escaping onto the web wasn’t conducive to that, and there were a few panics. Fortunately, we managed to keep everything unreleased until the online download of In Rainbows.
The success of keeping the music off the net until release proved very powerful. A pre-digital album launch would involve some shows perhaps, record shop queues if you were lucky, and plans by the record company to mark the release as an event. In the digital world, with the ease of music escaping online, that sense of an event is diminished.
With In Rainbows, we were able to be the first people to digitally release our record, directly to people’s personal computers, at 7.30am GMT on 10 October 2007. I was having breakfast, and watched as the file appeared in my email, and the album streamed onto my desktop. I spent the next day and night monitoring people’s reactions online, both to the music and the means of delivery. Journalists in America had stayed up overnight to write the first review as they received the music – again, in the pre-digital age they would have had advance copies up to three weeks before. On the torrent site bulletin boards, people were arguing over whether they should be downloading and paying for the record from our site, rather than the free torrents. Various online pundits and pamphleteers were pronouncing the end of the record business, or of Radiohead, or of both.
For all the giddy prognostications, the most important reason for the success of In Rainbows was the quality of the music. I think this was overlooked, but without the great songs that we were proud of, the online release would have counted for nothing. I am optimistic that if you make good work you can secure the patronage of your fans.
Three years later, we have just finished another group of songs, and have begun to wonder about how to release them in a digital landscape that has changed again. It seems to have become harder to own music in the traditional way, on a physical object like a CD, and instead music appears the poor cousin of software, streamed or locked into a portable device like a phone or iPod. I buy hardly any CDs now and get my music from many different sources: Spotify, iTunes, blog playlists, podcasts, online streaming – reviewing this makes me realise that my appetite for music now is just as strong as when I was 13, and how dependent I am upon digital delivery. At the same time, I find a lot of the technology very frustrating and counter-intuitive. I spend a lot of time using music production software, but iTunes feels clunky. I wish it was as simple and elegant as Apple’s hardware. I understand that we have become our own broadcasters and distributors, but I miss the editorialisation of music, the curatorial influences of people like John Peel or a good record label. I liked being on a record label that had us on it, along with Blur, the Beastie Boys and the Beatles.
I’m unconvinced that the internet has replaced the club or the concert hall as a forum for people to share ideas and passions about music. Social networking models such as Twitter and foursquare are early efforts at this but have some way to go to emulate the ecosystem that labels such as Island drew upon, the interconnected club and studio worlds of managers, musicians, artists and record company mavericks, let alone pay for such a fertile environment. Shoreditch, in east London, has a vibrant scene right now, with independent labels such as Wichita, Bella Union and distribution companies like The Co-op, alongside the busy Strongroom studio. I spoke to a friend, Dan Grech-Marguerat, about the scene. He is a busy mixer and producer, and told me that he could just sit at home and work on the computer but would miss the social buzz and benefits of working at the Strongroom and other studios.
There are signs that the net is moving out of its adolescence, and preparing to leave its bedroom. I have noticed on the fan message sites that a lot of the content and conversations have grown up, moved away from staccato chat and trolling, to discussions about artists, taste and trends, closer to writing found in music magazines.
There is less interest in the technological side of the net, and more focus on what services the web can deliver, like any other media. People are using touch and gesture-controlled devices such as the iPad to see through those objects to get to the content they want. This transparency and immediacy is exciting for us as artists, because it brings us closer to our audience.
We have yet to decide how to release our next record, but I hope these partial impressions will help give some idea of the conversations we’ve been having. Traditional marketplaces and media are feeling stale – supermarkets account for around 70 per cent of CDs sold in the UK, the charts are dominated by TV talent-show acts – and we are trying to find ways to put out our music that feel as good as the music itself. The ability to have a say in its release, through the new technologies, is the most empowering thing of all.
Español- Gracias totales Radiohead Chile por la traducción !!!
Thanks: TST8, Radiohead Mexico and The Thom Yorke Red Pants Appreciation Society
Stanley Donwood OVERNORMAL
Interview English & Español
"We have a painting or we have some artwork on the computer and then Thom comes along and basically f***s it up, makes a real mess and I’m like “Okay I’m going to f**k it up even more”… and then he’s like “You f***ed up what I’ve done.” Basically it goes like that, and we just keep f***ing...up each others stuff until we are happy." http://pitchfork.com/news/40032-take-cover-radiohead-artist-stanley-donwood/
Stanley Donwood publica su Taglibro 21, en el cual presenta tres de los varios trabajos nuevos que ha realizado, y que recuerdan mucho al artwork de Hail to the Thief. Como también había anunciado en su anterior Taglibro, dichos trabajos serán presentados en su primera exhibición de casi dos meses en EU, que se titula OVER NORMAL, mostrada en una famosa galería de San Francisco, y en la que ha incluido un acompañamiento musical, preparado con John Matthias, para visualizar sus obras, titulado OVERNORMALIZER. La ceremonia de apertura iniciará a las 21:30 horas, y la galería ofrecerá un panfleto a modo de periódico, preparado en conjunto con Donwood y Matthias, que se puede descargar en PDF
Mis disculpas por publicar otro Taglibro tan rápido después del anterior… En el momento en el que lean esto yo estaré en San Francisco, preparando en la Fifty24SF Gallery una exhibición titulada OVER NORMAL, la cual durará del 2 de septiembre al 27 de octubre. Es el primer evento que realizo en Estados Unidos, y consta de siete nuevas pinturas, nuevas serigrafías, nuevas impresiones en giclée y una instalación de sonido, llamada OVERNORMALIZER, que ha llevado a cabo con JohnMatthias. El elemento que unifica el show es el constante uso de los colores que empecé a usar en 2003, cuando hacía las pinturas que se convertiría en elarte del álbum Hail to the Thief, de Radiohead. Este ha llegado a sermi paleta californiana. Las pinturas mostradas en este show son enormes paneles de madera de abedul, tres de los cuales muestro muestro arriba. Los he titulado como: PROBLEM INTENSITY, BECOME UNITEDBUSINESS PENIS. El torrente de palabras, que me parecen aplastantes, lo he dibujado de mi colección de spam por correo electrónico, que tiene que ver con aspectos incesantes como el dinero, el sexo y el aprovecharse de los demás. Son todas estas palabras lo que conforman la base del OVERNORMALIZER, una máquina a la que se le alimentó con spam en forma de texto, hasta que loempezó a vomitar como sonido en los oídos del oyente. Esperamos fervientemente el Sr. Matthias y yo que los resultados induzcan a una levehipnosis o incluso a un estado de alucinación hipnogógica mientras se escucha, al tiempo que se aprecia y descifra eltrabajo visual en el show. Para acompañar dicha instalación, hice una serie de cuatro impresiones en giclée, que documentan los patrones neuronales provocados por el OVERNORMALIZER.
1 Godrich Nigel: "tema universal" 02 Godrich Nigel: Hillcrest "Park03 Godrich Nigel:" Fight! "04 Dan the Automator:" Slick (Song Patel) "05 Godrich Nigel:" Love Me Some Walking "06 Godrich Nigel:" Talk para el Puño "07 Nigel Godrich:" Rumble "Nigel Godrich 08:" Feel the Wrath "Nigel Godrich 09:" The Grind "10 Nigel Godrich:" Hola Envy "Nigel Godrich 11:" El atacante Misterio "12 Nigel Godrich:" Segundo Copa "13 Nigel Godrich:" El Vegano "Nigel Godrich 14, Jason Falkner, y Justin Meldal-Johnsen:" Batalla Bass "Nigel Godrich 15:" Lo siento "Adivina 16 Nigel Godrich:" Roxy "17 Nigel Godrich:" La Novena Círculo "18 Cornelio y Beck:" Sexo Katayanagi Twins vs Bob-omb "Nigel Godrich 19:" Esta lucha ha terminado "Nigel Godrich 20:" Llamar a Gedeón "Nigel Godrich 21:" Nivel 7 "22 Nigel Godrich:" Bienvenido a Caos Teatro "23 de Nigel Godrich y Beck:" We Are Sex Bob-omb (Rápido) "24 Nigel Godrich:" La entrada rápida a los infiernos "Nigel Godrich 25:" Chau Down "Nigel Godrich 26:" Game Over "Nigel Godrich 27: "tan solo" 28 Nigel Godrich: "Round 2" 29 Nigel Godrich y Beck: "Muerte a todos los Rebeldes" 30 de Nigel Godrich: "un hombre diferente" 31 de Nigel Godrich: "Batalla Boss" Nigel Godrich 32: "Blowing Hasta Ahora "Nigel Godrich 33:" Aftermath "34 Nigel Godrich:" Bye and Stuff "Osymyso 35:" El amor "(bonus track) 36 Osymyso:" Ramona "(bonus track) 37 Osymyso:" Prepárense "(rrack bonus) 38 Dan la Automator: "Ninja Ninja Revolution" (bonus track)
