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On February 25th, Thom Yorke played a low key, solo show at the Cambridge Corn Exchange to support friend and environmentalist Tony Juniper’s Parliament campaign.
All proceeds went to the Green Party.
Thom performed some of his new material including “Give Up the Ghost” (see above), “The Daily Mail,” and “I Froze Up.” Also played a great Casio-heavy version of “Weird Fishes.”
Most of the videos of Yorke’s performance at Cambridge Corn Exchange are on YouTube.
This Sunday, January 24, Radiohead will be holding a “surprise” benefit show at the Music Box at the Fonda in L.A. to raise money for the Oxfam Haiti relief fund.
In order to make as much money as possible, the tickets will be [have been] sold through auction, some at about $100 each. The auction started Thursday 8:00PM PST and ended Saturday 11:00AM PST.
Drummer Phil Selway stated on Dead Air Space, ”We’re in the middle of recording at the moment, so you’ll be catching us on the fly…. but if you’re up for it, then we are too.”
Well, well, well worth it.
And not to sound like a Stan, but I think that is really great of them.
UPDATE:
They raised well over $500,000 in the 1300-seat venue.
Tickets ranged from $100 to someone even paying $4,000 for a seat.
ALSO, A RAD VID PREVIEW, BRO:
BREAKDOWN:
They dance the same, could be long lost bruvvas.
Thom Yorke and Tunde Adebimpe (TV on the Radio) were asked to remix and reinterperet songs for an expanded edition of Liars’ fifth studio album, Sisterworld (March 8).
Also collaborating are Blonde Redhead, Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound), Melvins, Chris & Cosey from Throbbing Gristle, and Alan Vega (Suicide).
After the release of the album March 8, Liars will follow-up with a tour:
April 10 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
April 14 - Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel
April 15 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
April 16 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
April 17 - Boston, MA - Paradise
April 18 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
April 27 - San Francisco, CA - Slim’s
April 29 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
April 30 - Vancouver, BC - TBA
May 1 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
“How’s the song?” Friedberger asks. “Is it 48 notes to the octave? What does it have to do with Harry Patch? Oh, my wife says I am being very rude. She doesn’t like me insulting Radiohead. She’s afraid they will send their lackeys through the computer to sabotage us. But they needn’t worry — we are a band that sabotages ourselves.
Music from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Radiohead, White Stripes, Sufjan Stevens, Queens of the Stone Age, Of Montreal, and more.
Jaydiohead - “99 Anthems”
Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” mashed with Radiohead’s “The National Anthem”
Produced by NYC DJ Max Tannone
In the latest issue of NME, guitarist Ed O’Brien confirmed that Thom Yorke was misquoted in his latest interview in The Believer, which led fans to believe that Radiohead would only be releasing singles from now on.
Radiohead has scheduled recording sessions for this winter and will release a full-length album in 2010.
VIDEOS:
“Skirting on the Surface”
“Lotus Flower”
“Open the Floodgates”
They are so popular that people have already done their own acoustic covers of them and posted them on Youtube. THE SAME NIGHT.
