Radiohead - 'Fat Girl' (demo)
These days Radiohead sound like a ZX Spectrum falling down a spiral staircase, but back in 1986 they were sixth formers with a penchant for double denim and sax solos. This recently unearthed demo finds them channeling The Smiths’ ‘Some...
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs (XL)
You’ll read a lot in these pages about the method of ‘The King Of Limbs’ ’ release. But let’s face it: the moment it actually arrived should be the moment when all those digi-debates faded into background chatter… just as long as the...
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The hits are here, but even in a stadium it’s the ‘In Rainbows’ songs that shine the brightest. Eleven years pretty much to the day since Radiohead took to a stage in a field in Pilton and spirited the songs of ‘OK Computer’ into the...
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Radiohead kicked off the UK leg of their world tour in London last night (June 24). The band played Victoria Park in the east of the capital, performing a set that showcased their most recent album 'In Rainbows' as well as mixing in...
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Or the one that, according to Thom Yorke, “sounds like that new Australian band Wolfmother”. Post the whole ‘‘they’re revolutionising the music industry!’ business, there’s something quite rubbish about Radiohead releasing something...
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Well, if Radiohead bloodied the nose of the record industry with ‘In Rainbows’, this best-of release of their Parlophone back catalogue amounts to a pretty low-blow response, which should give The Man a second wind(fall). Thom Yorke has...
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It does strike us as odd,” snarled one blogger on Seattlest.com back in February, on the announcement of the ‘In Rainbows’ world tour, “that their first guaranteed date is a gig in the land of frat conventions and Jimmy Buffett.” Indeed,...
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‘Nude’ is the great lost Radiohead song, written in the mid-’90s, but held in limbo while the band tried to figure out what to do with it in the studio. The answer, surprisingly, is to do little, beautifully. Guitars circle in quiet...
Radiohead; 93 Feet East, London, Wednesday...
They set the standard for Gig Of The Year… in January! As one of Earth’s biggest rock bands, keeping the very existence of your new album a secret until a week and a half before release could be seen as a crafty gimmick. When you manage the...
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Let’s face it, Radiohead could have released the sound of Thom Yorke picking fluff out of his belly button (which they did actually sample and loop throughout the whole of ‘Amnesiac’, probably) and the world wouldn’t have noticed for...
