The King of Limbs Part 2

At around 3:05pm EST Chieftan Mews sent out the following tweet  “Hello. You cannot see the wood for the forest? Aha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ro5H0mDBfE ␄”

Not sure what this means.  The title of the video is “This is Jinsy – Melody Lane – Types Of Wood”

Notice how he leaves “EOT” at the end of most of his tweets? “EOT” can mean many things, but the most common is End Of Transmission, which is what I think he is saying. It can also mean End Of Time, or you can visit this site for a complete list. Click here.

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Remember Chieftan Mews Tweet back on Feb 17th?  It read “私 はそれらに日本語を教えた. See my prowess below. ALAS, I will visit Greyfriars Bobby instead of Hachiko BUT whenever I want to. Bite. Bite. Dog. BBBARk”.  For some reason this was over looked, he is saying he is going to visit Greyfriars Bobby.  Greyfriars Bobby  was a Skye Terrier who became known in 19th-century Edinburgh after reportedly spending 14 years guarding the grave of his owner, John Gray, until he died himself on 14 January 1872. A year later, Lady Burdett-Coutts had a statue and fountain erected at the southern end of the George IV Bridge to commemorate him.  Read more about Greyfriars Bobby here.   Now if you remember the other dog named Hachiko, and there is a statue of him near the location Radiohead tweeted back on Thursday the 17th when they sent out this cryptic message in Japanese, “渋谷 ハチ公広場 金曜日 １８時５９分” , which in English reads “Hachiko Square Shibuya, 59 minutes at 18 Friday.” The square is named after a dog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D.

Not sure what to make of this but both are loyal dogs who wait/guard their owners.  I was not aware of either one of these dogs nor their stories prior to creating this site.  There are several films on both dogs that I plan on checking out in the near future, and if you follow the links provided you can find further information on those films.  (I am doubting there are any clues in the films, they just look interesting to me).

Another thing I found on Greyfriars Bobby is In the 1945 film The Body Snatcher, Boris Karloff‘s character (incidentally named Gray) digs up bodies from graves. One of these bodies is that of John Gray. Bobby tries to stop him from taking the corpse, but is struck over the head by Boris Karloff’s character, and killed.  Remember Radiohead’s 2007 album had a song titled “Bodysnatchers” on it.

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At around 10:30am EST Radiohead sent a message out on Twitter for Jonny Greenwood’s involvement on the Norwegian Wood Soundtrack.  It read, “Jonny’s soundtrack for Norwegian Wood is out now http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/norwegian-wood-soundtrack”. I have my twitter account set up so, I receive a duplicate copy of Radiohead’s Twitter messages as a text message on my cell phone.  I thought at first that it might have been the message many of us are expecting, that there is in fact a Part 2 to The King Of Limbs.  Not that I don’t care about the soundtrack.  This was their first message on Twitter since the message back on Feb 18th announcing that The King Of Limbs was available to download one day early  Another thing to take into consideration is that this message was not posted as news on the band’s website.  Could the band be waiting to add any news to their website until they announce Part 2?

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On Friday February 18th, Radiohead released their 8th studio album “The King of Limbs” exactly one day earlier than they had originally announced they would release it. Here is the message from Ed O’Brien on the bands official website:

“It’s Friday… It’s almost the weekend…It’s a full moon….

You can download ‘The King of Limbs’ now if you so wish!

Thank you good people for waiting … Have a great weekend wherever you are….”
Ed

With the release there has been much speculation that there will be an additional release(s) for the album.
Is there going to be a Part 2, or even a Part 3 and 4 to Radiohead’s The King of Limbs? When the band’s 8th studio album was made available for download on Friday, Feb 19th there seemed to be even more speculation when only 8 tracks were released with less than 38 minutes worth of music being released. I began to research it and uploaded a video that evening with all the information I could find on it. Here is my original video on the subject. Though I was wrong about having more information within 24 hours, I have been able to gather a bunch of additional clues in the following days. Be sure to check the video out below.

Since then, I have been able to find more information, so I decided to start a dedicated blog on the subject.

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03/07/2011 Could Radiohead be planning a surprise Announcement/Concert?! Posted by Adrian D. (bloomis2) on the At Ease Message Boards:

“Hi everybody !
I’m from Paris, and I’m pretty excited with new information I’d like to share with you. In France, there is a guy called Zegut, who is like an old rock’n’roll cowboy. He hosts a radio show about rock music and posts music news on his blog. I started to read his blog more than a year ago when I noticed he was right when he said before everyone that Arcade Fire was going to headline a festival in Paris. He said something like “my little finger told me that…” and gave us the info. He is friends with everyone related to festivals, shows, big or small concert rooms, etc. He knows his shit. So to me, and to many people following him, he is someone to trust. This morning he posted this:

“J’ai entendu parler d’un concert de Radiohead à Paris, qui aurait lieu dans un endroit inhabituel, un petit endroit…A suivre…”

Translation: “I heard about a Radiohead show in Paris, that would occur in a unusual place… a small place… to be continued…”

He’s not the kind of guy that would say that out of nowhere. One of his contacts told him about something. What if Radiohead was planning small venues across Europe very soon? What if the next full moon brings us an update of the tour dates page? I think its very intresting information. Just wanted to share my enthusiasm.

Cheers!
Adrien”

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03/06/2011 Remember the sound engineer that work’s for a friend of Nigel’s back in clue #32? I contacted him today to see if he had possibly heard anything else, and he told me that both him and his mentor (the producer), also his boss, feel that there is definitely more music on the way. He also said that he was told by his boss that he had never seen Nigel so consumed by a project before. He also said that a “common friend”, also told him that Thom, Ed, and Colin were recently in LA with Nigel, to celebrate his (Nigel’s) birthday. So it appears as if they were just in LA for Nigel’s birthday and nothing related to Radiohead, etc. Now this is both of their opinions that there will be more music. They both work in the music industry, and he also said that with all of the rumors about there being a Part 2, that he thinks they would have denied the rumors if in fact they were not true. I think everyone can agree with the band’s silence that something is going on…

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03/06/2011 Is there going to an announcement from the band on this? It has been over 2 weeks and still nothing from the band. If you look back on #45, Jonny refused to comment on a follow up or Part 2. If you look at the picture below you will see the order support for The King Of Limbs website (http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/) it looks as if there is going to be a change made to the site within the next few days to allow people to upgrade to the newspaper edition.

Now with both The Ides of March (March 15th) and the Full Moon that will occur of March 19th , I am guessing that something will happen on either one of or possibly both of these dates. Chieftan Mews has referred to The Ides of March and the Full Moon theory seems to make even more sense. The Ides of March is the name of 15 March in the Roman calendar, which probably refers to the day of the full moon. Here is some more info on the Ides of March. So, Ed referenced a Full Moon on Feb 18th, Chieftan Mews mentioned The Ides of March on Feb 23rd. Stanley and Thom released a book on the Lunar Calendar (specifically phases of the Moon) back in 2005, and “IMS MENOO” has been on their website, and Mews twitter. Thom also sings “Cause all I want is the Moon on a stick” in the song, “Lotus Flower”…

Also on Saturday March 19th The Full Moon will be the closest to the Earth than it has been since 1993. This phenomenon is called ‘lunar perigee’. Meanwhile, there are astrologers who called it ‘SuperMoon’. Read more about it here.

Now Jonny did say in his interview on BBC6 Music that the band were recording at the moment, which could be the case, or that could just be the answer that he gave them. There were some rumors going around that Thom Yorke, Nigel Godrich, and Colin Greenwood were in Los Angeles possibly for Nigel’s birthday. Another thing I have not posted was also from the website where you order the bands album, where is says: “One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl.”
What are these 2 songs going to be? This could be totally unrelated to a Part 2, so I am not sure. Also let’s look back at this picture again, which was on the Radiohead website the day The King of Limbs was announced

Remember this picture?

The following is from a user on Mortegi Tempo:

“This picture seems to support the moon theory very well.
The first limb on the left is the “announcement” day and the second limb is the “release” day.
The Announcement day is definitely a waxing moon which is *almost* full.
The Release day is a full moon.
The picture seems suggest this. (The limbs themselves have two moons on them)
Oddly, there are a total of 6 limbs in the picture (2 moons per every LP = 3 LPs?) and 4 of them do not have moons on them yet.
Also, March 15th looks exactly like the Waxing “announcement” moon (also a Monday as Feb 14)
And March 19th is a full moon.”

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