Phil Selway from Radiohead on going solo and Thom’s Lotus Flower dance
Radiohead’s Phil Selway recently gave an interview to Drowned in Sound where he briefly discusses his solo work, discusses Thom’s dancing in the Lotus Flower vide, and he describe The King Of Limbs as a ‘grower’ album:
“It’s been a very steep learning curve being a solo artist. Whilst recording Familial, it was quite a difficult process having to make all the decisions by myself. The song writing was very long. That didn’t involve writing the music as it all came very quickly to me, but in a lyrical sense, it took a long time. Finding your own identity and going from zero to actually having a voice without taking drugs is a difficult process. I’ve found that with Familial, it’s a starting point for a much bigger place. Whether I’ll carry on still remains to be seen but I am releasing an EP soon and I’ve enjoyed the whole process.
When I started writing songs, it all sounded very un-Radiohead to me and that’s why I needed to have this outside of Radiohead. There’s no meeting place between my solo material and material with the band, but being in Radiohead has always been the right role for me and I don’t know where I’d be without them. But for now, I feel that recording and performing solo has been appropriate. I’m lucky that I had a network of experienced musicians to work with throughout my own music and we’ve tapped through each other’s experiences, helping each other throughout the way.
I thought Thom’s dance in the ‘Lotus Flower’ video was good and he was amazing in the video. If it were me, I’d do the birdy dance and I’d imagine I would enjoy it. With King of Limbs, we all knew that it wasn’t going to be an immediate record but a lot of great records have been 38 minutes long. It’s that old chestnut of a grower. Every record that we’ve done has been a reaction to the last one and King of Limbs carried on that tradition for us.”
Source: Drowned in Sound
Thanks to @BreichiauHir for sending this to me.
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Jonny Greenwood’s ‘Doghouse’ Premiere in New York (Video)
Over this past weekend Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood performed at the U.S. premiere of Doghouse.
Here are some videos from the show:
Source: Lady Newell & Friends from WASTECENTRAL
– Radiohead drummer Phil Selway also performed some songs over the weekend. I will post more info on this once it becomes available. Today is Phil’s 44th birthday!
– Here is a picture of a 12” vinyl record, which could be the signed vinyl that they were giving away on the official site.
From: Radiohead Peru
“This is a vinyl promo 12 “Feral and Lotus Flower, being Feral side A and so far we have no confirmation regarding the legitimacy of it.”
This was confirmed to be a bootleg
Source: Radiohead Peru
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Radiohead News for this past week #3 (Weekly Recap)
Here is a recap of news on Radiohead from this past week.
Sunday May 15th, 2011 – Flying Lotus to remix Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs here
Tuesday May 15th, 2011 – Stanley Donwood posts a blog here
Friday May 18th, 2011 – Radiohead The King Of Limb’s Newspaper Album Up Close here video here
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Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs Newspaper Album Up Close
Here is a closer look at Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs Newspaper Album. Here is everything that comes with the Newspaper Album:
- Two clear 10″ vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve.
- A compact disc.
- Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.
- The Newspaper Album comes with a digital download that is compatible with all good digital media players.
- The Newspaper Album will be shipped from Monday 9th May 2011 you can, however, enjoy the download now.
- Orders placed on or after 21st February 2011 (UK time) will ship from 1st June 2011
- Shipping is included in the prices shown.
- One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl. Competition closing date 28th March. (Competition now closed)
Here is a video of everything that is included in the package.
Some scans of the Newspaper here (Thanks to Kaspar for sending this to me)
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New Stanley Donwood blog (05-17-2011)
There was a new blog posted by Stanley Donwood today. Here is the message he sent out via Twitter today at around 3:00 pm EST:
“http://bit.ly/fDBL53 = george shaw/paints the familiar but unnoticed. http://bit.ly/ccyqtH =printing linocut success/printing cmyk failure”
Thanks to @twisted_words for fixing the links. They were both broken originally.
I’ve started printing the editions for Lost Angeles. Once again, myself and the indefatigable Cefmor Tallboy cleared the detritus from around the venerable 1860 Albion press and off we went; inking, loading paper, printing, as well as the more arcane arts of frisket preparation, testing and adaptation. As you can see from the picture, space was at a premium as Mr Tallboy is having his workshop rebuilt. Eventually, he tells me, everything will be fine and I won’t have anything to complain about, cf. previous moans about freezing temperatures etc.
The first section of Lost Angeles is the fairytale castle at Disneyland, in Anaheim. I cut this last September, incredibly enough, when I was kidding myself that the whole eighteen feet of it would only take a couple of weeks. I was evidently deluded, and it’s only now, seven months later, that the end of the chiselling of linoleum is actually within sight. Printing it is of course another matter entirely, and one which relies on the goodwill, patience and hard labour of many people besides myself.
I’m planning to make a linocut edition (ie., prints taken directly from the inked lino) of 66, which generally means that we need to print about 90 to get 66 good prints. As there are eighteen sections, this means we will be doing 1,620 prints for the edition of 1,188. I’ve only just worked that out. Hmm.
Anyway, here’s the slowly growing stack of prints:
Now that I’m thinking this through, I’m filled once more with a sense of sustained peril. I am thinking in adult language and there may be scenes of a violent nature, although it is early days, as yet. It’s best not to think too much about these things. It’s best just to do things as if each thing is just itself. Like these little counting marks:
See? It’s fine. I’m up to 64 already. Only 1,556 to go.
In other matters of vaguely interconnected interest:
This is as far as we have got with the successor to the ill-starred Divided Woods, which is a picture called Friday Woods.
I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that the expert screenprinters consulted before we started on this sorry affair were right. It’s not really possible to screenprint this picture. It’s been a very hard lesson to learn, and we’ve tried everything to make it work. But. But we can’t. So…
This print, Friday Woods, and the other, Divided Woods, will be made. However, to maintain the depth, distance, and general sense of unease that are essential to this painting, they will be printed using the very latest in lithographic technology. More information will be posted up here soon, but right now I have to make a cup of tea.
– 17th May 2011
Link – http://www.slowlydownward.com/nonews.html
Update- Some people are speculating that this artwork could be for a new Thom Yorke solo album or related to Atoms For Peace since the artwork is similar. Read more about it here
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