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Radiohead: new producer & tour
Posted: 12/23/2005, 1:10 am
by faninor
ateaseweb.com wrote:Radiohead have revealed they plan to tour this spring, plus have given an insight into their forthcoming album.
The band, who have been working in the studio on new material during large parts of this year, say they will play some small scale UK dates in 2006 to unveil new songs to fans.
"We are going to tour next year, definitely," Ed O'Brien told Zane Lowe on his Radio 1 show last night (December 21). "Hopefully we're going to have a couple of tracks to download by about April or May. But we're going to go out in May, we're going to do some theatres because part of what we're doing is play new material. It's a good way to get your shit together."
O'Brien explained the band will do UK and European dates in May before heading to America in the summer. He said the band hoped they would have around ten new songs in their set by then.
Discussing the album itself, the guitarist said there was no confirmed release date yet, but said Radiohead planned more recording sessions in February.
"We've been talking to (producer) Mark 'Spike' Stent, who's worked with Madonna and Bjork and hopefully in February we'll reconvene with him," said O'Brien. "We've got some great songs but we won't release something we're not happy with. The thing with Radiohead is that each record has a different sound, it's really hard finding something that's different and sits well with us."
With the band planning to work with Stent, O'Brien confirmed their long-term producer Nigel Godrich would not be involved in the new record.
"It's not an end of an era, (but) part of what your realise as a band is that all those records you made with Nigel, apart from 'Hail To The Thief' we were a little bit in the comfort zone," he explained. "That's why you make records like 'Kid A' after 'OK Computer', that's why you make 'OK Computer' after 'The Bends', you've got to do stuff that you're scared of doing. With Nigel, we've been working together for 10 years, and we all love one another too much."
Posted: 12/23/2005, 1:14 am
by Hope
hmm i hope this is for the better.
and i believe i am too poor for a radiohead tour..
Posted: 12/23/2005, 1:10 pm
by Soozy
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Radiohead live
Posted: 12/24/2005, 6:28 am
by nikki4982
This producer switch sounds somewhat familiar...
Posted: 12/24/2005, 1:27 pm
by Dabekk
except that radiohead are smart...
Posted: 12/24/2005, 2:35 pm
by Axtech
nikki4982 wrote:This producer switch sounds somewhat familiar...
Yeah, but they didn't pick a producer notorious for ruining great bands.
Posted: 12/24/2005, 2:43 pm
by reza
Hope wrote:hmm i hope this is for the better.
and i believe i am too poor for a radiohead tour..
ditto
Posted: 1/7/2006, 10:13 pm
by hpdfk
too bad I won't be around venues in the summer
Posted: 1/8/2006, 10:52 am
by Soozy
where you gonna be?
Posted: 1/10/2006, 12:37 am
by faninor
Radiohead's hopin to be in Chicago on June 19th and 20th. :O
*waits for all the US dates to be announced*
Posted: 1/10/2006, 1:34 pm
by Axtech
From greenplastic.com:
Supervisors of Chicago's brand new, gleaming gem -- a Frank Gehry-designed music pavilion within Millennium Park -- claim that they want to have more popular music performances, but clearly actions speak louder than words: City officials have vetoed Radiohead's request to play the venue on June 19 and 20. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago's Cultural Affairs Department turned down Radiohead's appeal "even though the group would have paid rental fees of $100,000 -- because the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to hold a rehearsal June 20."
"Free public programming is part of the venue's mission," a spokesperson for the Cultural Affairs Department said. "We have to support organizations such as the Grant Park Orchestra, but we're open to other events if there are availabilities at other times" -- like a private corporate event for Toyota that cost $800,000 and closed the park to the public last summer. According to the Sun-Times, Radiohead still hopes to return to Chicago this summer regardless of whether or not they can play at Millennium.
aaaaanyways...
I listened to Kid A on the bus yesterday.
At first listen, I really really love Optimistic. And Treefingers
The whole album's really good, although more eccentric and experimental than I'm used to.
Posted: 1/10/2006, 2:05 pm
by faninor
Want the extended version of Treefingers? It was on the Memento soundtrack.
Posted: 1/10/2006, 2:13 pm
by Axtech
oooh, I might grab that from you later.
Is it in the movie too? I haven't seen it in ages.
Posted: 1/10/2006, 2:14 pm
by faninor
I don't remember. :*)**
Posted: 1/10/2006, 2:15 pm
by Axtech
Posted: 1/10/2006, 9:54 pm
by Hope
my favourite from Kid A is National Anthem
Posted: 1/11/2006, 4:07 pm
by clumsychild_
Mine too I think!
Posted: 1/13/2006, 11:39 am
by Soozy
I don't have Kid A. Old skool Radiohead all the way!!!!
Posted: 1/13/2006, 1:28 pm
by lora
dude, kid a is their best album. you're missing out.
Posted: 1/13/2006, 5:01 pm
by clumsychild_
Nuh uh!
Amnesiac's better than Kid A, but yeah.. OK Computer's still the best.
