The King of Limbs Part 2

There was a new blog posted by Stanley Donwood today.

There is a Fringe Festival in the city of Bath in Somerset, in England, and they are having an auction soon. One of the lots in the auction is a fine pair of Diamond Heist Bears, (pictured above) made by a certain Stanley Donwood, mounted and framed expertly by The Framing Workshop, merchants of the aforementioned city. The artworks are both artist’s proofs, and I believe bidding starts really quite low…
The Bath Fringe Charity Auction is at Widcombe Social Club, Widcombe Hill, Bath, Somerset, England on Wednesday 11th May at 7pm. It is £3 on the door, but I am told by a source close to the Organisation that they are accepting telephone bids. Further details can be found at www.bathfringe.co.uk.
No timewasters, prank callers, bankers etc.

– 4th May 2011

Visit Stanley Donwood’s blog here

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I have added a page of covers from The King Of Limbs.  Check it out here

I am  looking for a volunteer on the site.  I need some help changing the layout and  a few other things on here.  So, if you have experience with WordPress and HTML please contact me.  Also, if there is anyone interesting in contributing to the site feel free to contact me.

Thanks again to Jak River for the artwork for my new Twitter picture.  Be sure to check him out on Facebook and follow him on Twitter.

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There was a new blog posted by Stanley Donwood today.  Here is the message he sent out via Twitter at 5:36 PM EST:

@StanleyDonwood

“http://bit.ly/ccyqtH: this years pilton picture/ work continuing on lost angeles: 9 feet down 9 to go”

He posted the following on his blog today:

Some of the time that disappeared lately I spent making artwork for this year’s Glastonbury Festival, and the result is above. It ended up okay, or so I like to think. As usual it was very difficult to get right, and some of the pictures I made whilst trying to get it right were so bad they surprised even me, and I’m used to the sorts of horror that I’m capable of. I’ve been making artwork for Glastonbury Festival since 2002, and the pile of rejects is considerable. Last year I did the thing with the big glow-in-the-dark moon, which was fine, but an earlier version looked like a fucking beer mat. Anyway. There’s this year’s, coming soon to a t-shirt and a programme cover. I hope people like it.
Here’s a close-up of the pyramid/tor/rainbow bit.

When I first got the job I wandered around an empty Worthy Farm taking photographs, the pyramid stage just a scaffolding framework, the dank winter fields empty of everything except some cows, but a strange site-memory of the festivals that I’d been to over the years before. The pyramid was built on a leyline that runs through the distant tor, and a big oak tree behind the stage marks the route. There are a lot of books about pyramids and leylines, and some of them are quite good. John Michell, who lived until his recent death in Glastonbury wrote some fantastic books; The View Over Atlantis and The Flying Saucer Vision are both worth reading. Unless you’re a miserable cynic of some kind.
In other matters of tangental interest:
After the depressing failure of the attemt to print Divided Woods we turned our attention to the next picture in that series, entitled Friday Woods. We could have continued with the first, but it would perhaps have been a little sad to work immediately on something that had gone wrong. But! Having learnt a great deal from the failure of Divided Woods I have a certain amount of faith that things will go more smoothly this time.
I’ve also been chiselling away at what will eventually become an eighteen-foot-long linocut of Los Angeles being destroyed by fire, flood and miscellaneous natural and man-made disasters in a quasi-mediaeval style. This is tentatively titled Lost Angeles. I have alluded to this project before, but it had to be put on the back burner whilst I was preoccupied with various facets of The King of Limbs, Radiohead’s recent recording. But now it’s at the front of the queue, and I am officially half-way along. I can only do a few inches a day due to the titchiness of the chisel and the deranged level of detail demanded by my ridiculous personality. Pictures soon, when I get some proofs printed…
Oh yes. I will be making some screenprints of the Glastonbury Festival artwork soon. Big ones, I think. Well, as big as I can fit on the screens.

– 3rd May 2011

Check out Stanley’s blog and website here

And in case you missed the news earlier today, Radiohead will be performing The King Of Limbs live on BBC on July 1st, 2011. You can read about it here.

Fan made video for Supercollider

The video was created by @Btroubles and you can check out his blog here.  You might remember from his video that he created for the song Feral that appeared on this site a while back.

Follow me on Twitter here.

I have added a page of covers from The King Of Limbs.  Check it out here

I am  looking for a volunteer on the site.  I need some help changing the layout and  a few other things on here.  So, if you have experience with WordPress and HTML please contact me.  Also, if there is anyone interesting in contributing to the site feel free to contact me.

Thanks again to Jak River for the artwork for my new Twitter picture.  Be sure to check him out on Facebook and follow him on Twitter.

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Radiohead will be performing The King Of Limbs live on July 1st!  From BBC:

BBC Worldwide Music Television has signed a deal with Radiohead to distribute internationally a new and exclusive live performance of Radiohead’s eighth album, ‘The King of Limbs’.

Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live From The Basement is a 55-minute performance from one of the most successful and critically acclaimed acts of their generation, who have sold over 30 million albums worldwide. The programme will feature the notoriously elusive band performing the entirety of their celebrated new album in a studio setting with some additional behind the scenes material. It is scheduled to be the first time that the grammy-award winners are captured on camera this year.

The King of Limbs album was released digitally in February 2011 and physically at the end of March 2011, yet this exclusive performance will be the first time the band will have played this collection of songs in public. The band will be performing for acclaimed music show ‘From the Basement’, the brain child of production genius Nigel Godrich, who has either engineered or produced all of Radiohead’s albums since The Bends and has worked with a variety of international acts including Paul McCartney, U2, R.E.M and Air.

You can read the entire thing here

Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement becomes available to international broadcasters in June and is embargoed for broadcast until 1st July 2011. The programme is filmed in HD, will have no audience and no presenter – just a rare opportunity to see an intimate performance from one of the greatest bands in the world.

 

Thanks to Grel for sending this to me!

Will Chieftan Mews be on this broadcast?

Chieftan Mews Tweets

It looks as if Cheiftan Mews will not be appearing in this broadcast according to thie message he sent out on Twitter:

“@dillygent @FTBLive @radiohead @BBC6Music: The demand is there but your offer is too low! Insulting at best. SPEAK TO MY AGENTS! ␄”

Here is their last From The Basement performance for In Rainbows

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I have added a page of covers from The King Of Limbs.  Check it out here

I am  looking for a volunteer on the site.  I need some help changing the layout and  a few other things on here.  So, if you have experience with WordPress and HTML please contact me.  Also, if there is anyone interesting in contributing to the site feel free to contact me.

Thanks again to Jak River for the artwork for my new Twitter picture.  Be sure to check him out on Facebook and follow him on Twitter.

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This interview appeared on Pitchfork.com today Monday May 2nd, 2011:

When Radiohead announced that their new album, The King of Limbs, would be released in a “newspaper” version, it left people with lots of questions. Like: What the hell is a “newspaper album,” anyway? Photos of the deluxe set started rolling in last week, and Jon Severs of PrintWeek sat down with the band’s longtime artist Stanley Donwood to talk about the ideas behind the unusual packaging. The interview and scans from the King of Limbs art are below:

Jon Severs: Was this newspaper concept driven by the music?

Stanley Donwood: [laughs] I haven’t heard the album yet– not properly, not finished, not since it was being made. I’m waiting for the record company to send me a 12″ version! But when I was listening to it being made– because I work alongside the band when they are making the music– I loved hearing it emerge. I was hearing these shufflings and bangings becoming this sonic space that you can almost walk into. As I listened, I had this vision of these old churches where you had these huge ceilings of overarching, intertwined colors, and this led me to painting all these colored trees.

JS: So the newspaper album concept is something that the band inspired?SD: The whole idea of this album was to have something that was almost not existing, so we chose clear vinyl and the newspaper format. [In Rainbows] was this big, heavy, substantial thing– if you were determined, you could have killed someone with it! It was very much a definitive statement, and that isn’t where the band are at the moment. Where they are now is more transitory. When a newspaper comes out, that doesn’t mean news stops, what you have is just a snapshot of how things were at the moment that newspaper was printed. And similarly, this album shows where Radiohead are at the moment the record was released. The music is a continuing thing. And we wanted to make the album representative of that.

I also really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can’t be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.

Read the entire article here

Thanks to Tyler for sending this to me!

More artwork inspired by The King Of Limbs

He has designed one of these for each track on The King Of Limbs and they can be viewed here.

Wil Morrill, a graphic designer and video artist living near Seattle, WA. Each piece was meant to visually express the sound and feel of each song on the album. It was created while listening to each song on repeat. The colors and textures were all based on the feeling and style of the song.

Follow me on Twitter here.

I have added a page of covers from The King Of Limbs.  Check it out here

I am  looking for a volunteer on the site.  I need some help changing the layout and  a few other things on here.  So, if you have experience with WordPress and HTML please contact me.  Also, if there is anyone interesting in contributing to the site feel free to contact me.

Thanks again to Jak River for the artwork for my new Twitter picture.  Be sure to check him out on Facebook and follow him on Twitter.

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