04.30.2001
Go here for the setlist and a review of the Canal+ gig. There's an article at Dotmusic.com about Radiohead's gig at Canal+, which will be aired on the same channel on June 5th. Enter here. There's an article about Amnesiac in the new issue of Rolling Stone and it says that "Like Spinning Plates" was built over the backing track of an unreleased song called "I Will". ( thanks dasmonkey) Reported by GP: Meeting People is Easy will be shown as part of the Sundance Channel's "Best of Nonfiction Films" on May 21 at 9pm. There's an interview here that Colin did with South Africa's IOL.
04.29.2001
From FMA: Radiohead played their first gig of the year in France last night for Canal+. The performance will be shown on the channel on June 5th. The band covered Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" with Ed and Thom on vocals. *I'll put up the setlist and maybe a review of the above gig next time I update. There's an article about Amnesiac in the new issue of Rolling Stone and it says that "Like Spinning Plates" was built over the backing track of an unreleased song called "I Will". This is from Ticketmaster: Radiohead will play at Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA on Saturday June 23. Tickets will be on sale through Ticketmaster at 9 am on May 12. You can also buy tickets to camp out the night before, June 22, at Gorge Campground.
04.25.2001
Billboard.com: Radiohead fans will soon be able to have information on the revered U.K. rock act delivered to them directly online, thanks to a new promotion between Capitol Records and Active Buddy Inc. The "instant message" campaign comes as part of the promotion efforts for Radiohead's forthcoming album, "Amnesiac," due June 5 in North America. According to Capitol, "the Radiohead agent will be the most thorough and comprehensive source online and offline for accessing exclusive information and services related to the band and to the album." The instant messaging "agent," accessible through an entry in the user's "buddy list," will be able to respond to questions and information requests about the band, including tour dates, biographies, Web site links, and "Amnesiac"-related queries. Radiohead fans are being asked to provide suggestions for additional content. FMA reports: Radiohead was mentioned in a Globe and Mail article titled "The new face of protest": "First the Beastie Boys managed to reinvent consciousness-raising with their Free Tibet events. Then one of the world's most popular bands, England's Radiohead, aligned itself with antiglobalization, declaring its tour tent an ad-free zone and praising Toronto writer Naomi Klein's movement tome, No Logo. They even considered borrowing Klein's title for their latest album, Kid A, where singer Thom Yorke's information-age anxiety loops out into fractured vistas of "post-rock" sound." Read the full article here. Stanley came by the official board on Sunday and said he hoped to have the new site up by June 5th. Penelope Cruz (actress) talked about 'Kid A' in an interview at telegraph.co.uk: "When she talks about her current favourite CD for example, Kid A by Radiohead, I swear she almost starts to cry. 'When I figured out the lyrics in that first song - you know the one I mean about waking up sucking a lemon? It just hurt me so much. I don't know what happened to the guy who wrote that song, but I was going through a difficult time in my life at the time when I heard it, and now,' she solemnly crosses the fingers of both hands and twists her wrists, 'I have something like a bond with that record. I am obsessed with it.'" [thanks Beryl] MTV UK is another place where you can preview a clip of the video for ' Pyramid Song'. Enter here. There are 5 finalists on the Hear/Say contest that was mentioned earlier. Enter here to vote for the winner.
04.22.2001
MuchMusic is featuring 30 seconds of the video for 'Pyramid Song' before it will premiere on April 30th at 4:30 PM EST. Enter here. From GP: According to the Denver Rocky Mountain News, Radiohead is set to play at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre on June 20, 2001. This date marks the first time RH has played Denver since 1995, when their gear was stolen from their van. "Treefingers" is included on the Memento movie soundtrack.
04.20.2001
Here's a list of the Amnesiac campus listening parties: Austin Peay State Univ. Clarksville,TN on 4/25 @ 8pm, Harvill Cafeteria Clark College, Vancouver, WA/ Portland on 4/24 @ 8pm, Billards Plus Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO on 4/26 @ 12-3pm, The Plaza Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY on 4/28 @ 8pm, Willard Straight Hall DePaul Univ. Chicago, IL on 4/23 @ 8-11pm, Student Center Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL on 4/24 @ 11am, Spring Bar-B-Q Georgetown Univeristy, Washington D.C., on 4/27 @10-11pm, Metro Café NYU, New York City, NY on 4/19 @6-8pm, The Thompson Center Ohio State University, Columbus, OH on 4/25 @ 4:30pm, Ohio Union West Lawn Ohio University, Athens, OH on 4/25 @12pm, Four Front on the Green Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ on 4/23 @12pm, Campus Center Stanford University, Stanford, CA on 5/3 @10am-2pm, Coffee House Syracuse Univ. Syracuse, NY on 4/23 @ 7-9pm, Schine Student Center UCLA, Los Angeles, CA on 5/1 @ Kerckhoff Grand Salon Univ. of Wisconsin. Madison, WI on 4/26 @ 8pm, Memorial Union University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA on 4/22 @2-4pm, The Price Center Theatre University of Colorado, Boulder, CO on 4/26 @ 8pm, Hellems Room #252 University of Delaware, Newark, DE on 4/26 @ 6-9pm, The Scrounge University of Iowa, Des Moines, IA on 4/24 @ 9pm, Airliner University of Texas, Austin, TX on 4/26 @ 11am-1pm, Texas Union Showroom USC, Los Angeles, CA on 4/24 @6pm, Outside Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA on 4/25 @ 5-10pm, Colonial Hall If you attend any of these listening parties and would like to submit your own review of Amnesiac please e-mail me here. From GP: The "Pyramid Song" single will be released in Canada on May 22 with the following B-Sides: 1. The Amazing Sound Of Orgy 2. Trans-Atlantic Drawl 3. Kinetic
04.19.2001
The NME and Dotmusic both have Pyramid Song to download if you haven't heard it yet. NME here. Dotmusic here.
04.17.2001
From Greenplastic: Here's some more information about the New York University Amnesiac playback we reported to you on April 11th. Due to lack of seating, the playback is open to NYU students only. You will need to show your NYU ID to get in. There are rumors around that radio stations across the US and Canada will start doing their own playbacks for Amnesiac like they did for Kid A last Fall. Radio stations around the country have started playing some of the Amnesiac songs, such as Pyramid Song, I Might Be Wrong, and Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box. Keep an ear out while listening to the radio and you might catch one of Radiohead's new songs!
04.15.2001
Happy 33rd Birthday, Ed! Radiohead Live at the 10 Spot was featured on M2 tonight thanks to the voters out there. It was   great  to see Subterranean Homesick Alien played live! Too many commercials though. From FMA: Thom was mentioned and quoted in an article on REM in yesterday's Guardian Newspaper. The excerpt reads: "Stipe's close friend, Thom Yorke, the equally enigmatic leader of Radiohead and someone who has had his own troubles adjusting to the role of contmporary pop icon, provides a clue as to how Stipe has managed this feat. "Michael loves all the glamour of pop stardom, but in a mad way. He has fun with the absurdity of it all. He really manages to negotiate the whole thing in such a cool way. When I was close to that whole-rockstar- losing- his- marbles stage, he was so generous and protective. I'm okay with it all now and, to tell you the truth, a lot of that is down to him. He looks out for you. That's rare in a business where you meet so many fawning reptiles it just gets fucking depressing most of the time." Read the rest here. ChannelV (Australia, NZ) will air a 60 minute version of 'Meeting People Is Easy' on June 12 at 9 pm.
04.14.2001
Radiohead and Capitol Records are coming back with a brand new iBlip Version 2.0 that contains the following: Downloads Full album listening party of Amnesiac Videos for "Pyramid Song" and more Interview with Ed and Colin Live webcasts Radiohead postcards - send exclusive Radiohead postcards that arrive in the mail - now able to send internationally! Contest to see the band live! The iBlip v2.0 will launch on April 30th. If you are a webmaster and would like to host the iBlip on your website, go here and sign up.
04.11.2001
Good news for anyone in the tri-state area, or anyone that is willing to travel to New York City: There is going to be an Amnesiac listening party at NYU: The Program Board's Concerts Committee Presents: Radiohead Listening Party! Don't miss your chance to hear the NEW Radiohead album BEFORE its June release! Thursday, April 19, 2001, 8:00 PM Thompson Center located at 238 Thompson Street (thank you GP) Paul Lansky, the guy whose music was sampled in 'Idioteque', posted on the alt.music.radiohead newsgroup yesterday: "I have a new CD, called RIDE, on Bridge Records.  The title piece, Ride is a new take on my older piece, Night Traffic, which Jonny and Colin played on the BBC Mixing It show.   Until April 30, Bridge has a sale on all my CDs, including Homebrew, which has Night Traffic on it, for $10.99, with free shipping in the US and Canada.  (International costs a bit more.)" Buy it at bridgerecords.com.
04.10.2001
MTV2 in the US is having an All Request Weekend from April 14 - 15 and is hosting a vote for what concert they play. Radiohead Live At The 10 Spot is one of the choices. Go to mtv.com to vote. Chart Attack is reporting that Radiohead will be touring Canada this summer. This news is coming from Riley O'Connor, House Of Blues Concerts Canada senior Vice President. When asked if the band is going to bring their tent, O'Connor said, "That's a European tent they got. There are a lot of hurdles as far as fire code and engineering that they would have to get through before they start bringing it [their tent] to North America. It's a whole other reality, so they're just going to do outdoor live shows." [ thank you FMA for the above information ] NME: Sparklehorse were joined by a special guest DJ as they began a run of three low-key London shows last night (April 9) - Radiohead's Colin Greenwood The bassist span tunes between support act Matthew Jay and the cult US band at the tiny Borderline club - and he'll be joined tonight (April 10) behind the wheels of steel by brother Jonny, before manning the decks himself again at the final show on Wednesday (April 11).
04.07.2001
Thom made a post on the official board. When asked about the b-sides that would be released with the Amnesiac singles, he listed the following: Orgy Trans_Atlantic Drawl Fast_Track Kinetic Thom was also asked what his favorite song on the new album was and he said, "you and whose army? coz it was fun to play and totally relaxed and the song wrote itself and i love colins double bass on it. or i might be wrong. because its sounds like the stones that it came out of. its a song that was always there waiting." On June 12th Cleopatra Records will release a tribute CD to the band titled "Anyone Can Play Radiohead". For the tracklisting and more info, go to cleorecs.com. [thanks FMA]
04.06.2001
A link has been added to the main page at radiohead.com. From FMA: 'Hear/Say: America's College Music Magazine' is giving away a set of three art prints from Radiohead. To win, write a short essay (50-100 words) describing where you're going to put the prints if you win and what kind of impact they'll have on your decor. For more info, see this page. Launch: Tentative U.S. tour dates have leaked out, but a spokesperson for the band wouldn't confirm to dates to LAUNCH. Here's a list of tentative Radiohead tour dates. Venues to be announced: June 18 - Houston, TX June 20 - Boulder, CO June 23 - George, WA June 27 - San Francisco, CA June 29 - Santa Barbara, CA Dotmusic: Radiohead have made two videos for their forthcoming single, 'Pyramid Song', but as yet no release date has been finalised. Read the rest here.
04.05.2001
Jonny was on the message board today. Here's what he said about playing in South America and how the vocals for 'Like Spinning Plates' were done: "Not planned, no, but talked about fondly by us all but then, we don't plan ahead anymore much." "He learnt it backwards, sung it like that then we turned the tape around, so you can hear the words. A real answer !!!" [thanks beryl] The NME 'Amnesiac' review has been added to the LP5 page.
04.04.2001
From Planet Telex: 'Pyramid Song' will be released in the UK (CD1/CD2), Canada, Australia and Japan (one CD) around May 21st. Three brand new tracks will be released on the single. The UK CD1/CD2 combination will have four tracks spread across it. Two videos have been shot for 'Pyramid Song', one by Chris Bran and the Vapour Brothers and the other by Shynola (who both collaborated with Stanley Donwood on the Kid A 'blips'). Both videos were made separately from each other. The Vapour Bros. video will be shown on the more 'mainstream' music TV channels, while the Shynola one is going to appear on the more 'alternative' ones. The single 'I Might Be Wrong' will be the first release to American radio on May 1st. For those people keen to download some tracks from 'Amnesiac', these tracks are available from a careful search through Napster : Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box [3:59] - from Amnesiac promo CD Pyramid Song [4:50] - from Amnesiac promo CD You and Whose Army? [3:07] - recorded from the Sundance Film Festival presentation. Include 'sundance' in your search. I Might Be Wrong [4:51] - from Amnesiac promo CD Morning Bell/Amnesiac [3:09] - recorded from French radio (try a search for 'Amnesiac_The_Morning_Bell!!s') Dollars & Cents [4:45] - from Amnesiac promo CD Life in a Glass House - short (around 30 seconds) clip of an acoustic soundcheck recorded from the film 'Meeting People is Easy' Make sure the times match exactly - all other tracks are not Radiohead, or live versions.
04.03.2001
I created a chatroom that anyone can join and talk about anything. Everyone is welcome and have fun! The following was gathered from FMA: MTV2 will be sponsoring a show called "First Listen: Radiohead" that will travel to five locations in the US and play Amnesiac for a rotating 5 hour period. This show will be open to the public. The first confirmed date is April 25 at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. For more info, see vtu.org. Pablo Honey is #9 on Q's list of "Worst Album Sleeves".
04.02.2001
There's a review of Amnesiac at Canada Press. [thanks Beryl] I've read that 'Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box' is available on Napster. After downloading one of them, it was not the same song because the one on Napster has no lyrics and is just a guitar/violing song. I've downloaded another one and that one is also not the real one. Maybe I have fallen to the wrong circulation? Any ideas? Please write me.
04.01.2001
The Amnesiac cover has been revealed at radiohead.com. This is from Planet Telex: "Attention all those living in Toronto Canada: Playbacks of 'Amnesiac' between the hours of 1pm & 6pm will be occuring during 'Canadian Music Week' in Toronto, Canada on March 29, 30, 31. The event is held at the Westin Harbour Castle Convention Centre. On a first come first serve basis, anyone who finds the "Amnesiac Room" at the Westin can listen to Amnesiac in its entirety." [ thanks beryl]