Spin has a cool tour blog that has been following Radiohead since Vancouver. They are posting up videos, show notes, and setlists live from the concerts, all from a mobile phone.
The band played their first of two shows at the Hollywood Bowl last night to a sold out crowd. Since we're talking Hollywood, you know that plenty of celebrities showed up. Spotted in attendance were Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Phillipe, Elijah Wood, James Blunt, Patricia & Rosanna Arquette, Rufus Sewell, Tim Roth, Christina Aguilera, Seth Green, Heather Graham, and Danny Masterson, to name a few.
For the setlist and reviews, clicky here. The band play again tonight before wrapping up their tour in Chula Vista and Santa Barbara.
Radiohead performed the first ever amplified concert at night in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park last evening. To read reviews of the show, or to leave your own, please visit our gigography.
Radiohead Selects Four Winners of the aniBoom Animated Video Competition
August 13, 2008 04:43 PM
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Contest to Create Video for a Song from Radiohead’s IN RAINBOWS Receives Submissions of Overwhelming Quality, Inspires Band to Select Four Winners to Each Collect $10,000 Prize
Radiohead, aniBoom (aniboom.com), the premiere independent animation network and TBD Records have named the winners of the In Rainbows Animated Music Video Contest, as selected by the members of Radiohead themselves. Due to the extraordinary quality of the submissions, Radiohead decided to choose four winning videos, rather than a single winner, and is going to provide the additional prize money so that each of the four creators receives $10,000 to produce their full-length video. Radiohead will possibly use the videos in support of future singles from In Rainbows.
Controversial Fight Club and Snuff author Chuck Palahniuk has revealed Radiohead have written brand new music for the soundtrack to the new movie adaptation of his book Choke.
Speaking to 6 Music on the Shaun Keaveny Breakfast Show, Palahniuk explained it all came from his love of the band’s music, saying:
“Clark Gregg, who directed the movie version of Choke which comes out in November, he knew that I’d written Choke while listening to [Radiohead’s 1993 debut album] Pablo Honey, with Creep, over and over and over.
“So Clark got Radiohead to contribute a song; to write a song for the very end of the movie, the final credits.
“Apparently Radiohead liked the movie so much, they’ve written the score, most of the ambient music throughout it. So it’s ‘Choke – with the music of Radiohead’“
When asked if he felt honoured to have such a respected band write music solely for his film, the author laughed, “I quit believing in my own life at this point! My life is just too incredible to be believable anymore. It’s a living dream.”
Palahniuk’s work is famous associated with alternative music, with his use of Pixies’ Where Is My Mind during the finale of the feature film adaptation of his novel Fight Club.
In all honesty, we're just as tired of "Creep" as the band is, but let's not forget that it is the song that made them famous and allowed them to go on and make the rest of their albums the way they wanted to make them.
Personally speaking, I remember my high school girlfriend listening to "Creep" in 1993 and thinking, "this is such a crap song." It wasn't until she dumped me that I realized how great it was, and from that point on I was hooked. In the dozen times I've seen the band live, they've only played it once and that was in 1995 opening up for R.E.M. It's because of this that I am selfishly requesting they play it at the Outside Lands Festival on Friday, August 22nd in San Francisco.
But wait, there's another reason why I want them to play it in SF. Let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we?
It is widely accepted that in 1992/93, San Francisco radio station Live 105 "discovered" Radiohead and brought "Creep" to the masses in the U.S. From there, the single spread like wild fire across the country and everyone and their girlfriend was listening to them. You can read more about this here, if you're interested.
There has undoubtedly been a great number of awesome videos that have come out of the "House of Cards" animation data that was released last month. Let's add this one to the list, shall we?
Ian Mackinnon created an amazing video using the 3D data to do a time-lapse interpretation of "House of Cards" using LEGO bricks. Enjoy it below...
You can also view it in better quality on Ian's site.
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