tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367594312024-08-30T11:24:10.114-07:00Radiohead's bass player has been interviewed endlessly. One interview added weekly, more or less.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36759431.post-54874335401104664182008-09-10T12:08:00.000-07:002008-09-10T12:14:43.626-07:00

The Searchers: Radiohead's unquiet revolutionby Alex RossOn a hot day in May, the city of Bilbao was shaken by a velvety roar, not unlike the sound of a jet plane waiting on a tarmac. At one end of Calle de Iparraguirre, which cuts across the town, the silver shell of the Guggenheim Museum was glistening in the sun. For a moment, it seemed as if the noise were coming from there—as if the building

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Radiohead bassist slams Cubase software -- Crashes too muchBy Robert Blincoe Radiohead's bassist Colin Greenwood has kicked loose with his hardware and software preferences during an interview with UK site Culturelab.Colin says all the band have Powerbooks, which you might have guessed, and he's also got an Atari ST.On the Powerbooks the band run eMagic's Logic music production software "because

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An interview with Colin Greenwood of Radiohead by Kodwo Eshun.It’s three weeks before the release of Amnesiac, the companion album to Radiohead's Kid A. In a weeks time, the single Pyramid Song will crash into the British charts at No 2. Now, however, it is a rainy May afternoon at the Brook Green offices of EMI Records. Bassist Colin Greenwood is in good spirits. He responds knowledgeably and

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Meeting Machines Is Easy? Antonio WalkerThom Yorke sits in a large leather armchair looking like little boy lost. Wearing a baggy denim outfit that makes him look about 12 years old, Yorke is granting interviews today at Radiohead Central in the Oxford burb of Didcott Parkway. The most anguished pop star since Greta Garbo (see Meeting People Is Easy) will happily discuss Radiohead, dreams,

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We want to play outdoors in SA - RadioheadCraig CanavanJust what is it that makes Radiohead arguably the most-talked about, most-written about rock band in the world?Sure, some of it is thanks to the fact that they are one of the few great and commercially successful bands in the world. Perhaps, even, the first ever radically experimental AND commercially successful group.But, even more than that

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JAM! interviews RadioheadPaul CantinAlthough Radiohead won't be releasing any music videos from their current album, Kid A, the group has compiled live footage shot on their current tour and submitted it to video channels.The band's Jonny and Colin Greenwood told JAM! Music they have no interest in putting together the kind of music clips they have previously prepared for songs such as "Just," "

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The Post-Rock BandForty years after the Beatles, Radiohead has reinvented the idea of the rock group - with as much John Cage as John Lennon.By Gerald MarzoratiRadiohead is a significant band at a bad time for significant bands. Radiohead took its name from a song by Talking Heads, which says something about Radiohead's aspirations, and something too about how self-conscious and historically

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Radiohead and their New Kid ABreaking Away From their Pastby Gabriella Thom Yorke (vocals), Jonny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards, xylophone) Ed O'Brien (guitar), Colin Greenwood (bass) and Phil Selway (drums) began playing together in 1987 in Oxford. With their new album, Kid A, it seems that Radiohead said goodbye to everything that made them so popular in the past. Instead of melodies it sounds

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By Keith "K-Tel" McCalmontA relaxed Jonny and Colin Greenwood of Radiohead sat down recently for an intimate conversation on the eve of one of only three concerts to be played in North America this year by the quintet from Oxford.Their new album, Kid A, is garnering much critical acclaim, but more importantly it sets the band out in yet another musical direction assuring fans that the band is

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Sound and furyRadiohead don't do interviews and they're never photographed together. But when Andrew Smith joined them on tour in Paris, the notoriously temperamental Thom Yorke talked about Nasty Nick, bad reviews and how his breakdown nearly broke the bandIn the early 90s, you knew you'd arrived as a rock group the day you made it on to MTV and the Beavis & Butthead show. So it's 1993 and the

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The difference engineBy Zev BorowHow do you follow up a brilliant opus of alienation and a documentary that portrays the rock star life as soul-sucking bollocks?If you're Radiohead, you decide to “do things differently or don't do them at all.” The result is the best anti-rock album of the year.The way it works is you meet Thom last. Better, safer, to start with Phil or Ed. The Greenwood brothers

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Radiohead reveal the secret of their greasy sound'We put dirty underwear in our amplifiers'After the amazing 'OK Computer' (1997) and the following tour, we haven't heard much from Radiohead. Here in Belgium we find that normal - the band has prepared itself for the new album in all silence and tranquillity - but in England they don't tolerate heroes to get out of the spotlights. Ok, on an

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Radiohead: They’re Not so Angst-ridden once you get to know themGabriellaFormed in Oxford, 1987, the alternative rock band Radiohead (named after a Talking Heads song) has gained strong international popularity over the years with works such as Pablo Honey (1993), The Bends (1995), and most notably the Grammy award-winning O.K. Computer (1997). Unlike previous efforts, however, the band's latest

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THE SPIN TOP 40 VITAL ARTISTS IN ROCK#2 - RADIOHEADRadiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, international man of mysterySpin: Mr. Bloke? Do you always take calls at hotels under an alias?Colin Greenwood: It's even more necessary when we're in Japan-fans are always calling up.Right now, to a lot of people, Radiohead seem the sovereign artistic operation in rock'n'roll. What, if anything, connects "

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The Golden Age of Radioheadby Mac RandallWith their Grammy nominations, hit singles and critical raves, Radiohead look like rock's next big thing. But who are they?Flip through the end-of-the-year critics' polls of just about any music publication in the world, and see a stunning consensus: 1997's top band was Radiohead, and their album OK Computer (Capitol) was this year's masterpiece.But don't

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RadioheadMTV grilled Radiohead's bassplayer, Colin Greenwood about all things musical.MTV: Your last tour was a while after 'Creep' and a while before The Bends, it must be better for you to be here this time?Colin: Yeah, I mean the record was only released in Europe and America on June 16th, so about 8 months ago. It's not such a bad cycle. We've been very busy since we released the album. I'm

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Radiohead were in Australia in February 1998, and played to adoring crowds all over the country. In this interview, Jabba and bassist Colin Greenwood get cosy in a lounge chair and discuss everything from video clips and remixes to the pressures of success...Jabba: Hello there. Jabbatron here, in this luxurious hotel foyer with Mr Colin Greenwood from the band, Radiohead. He plays bass, his

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Radio wave: Britain's band rides crest of superstardom with low-wattage egosby Patrick MacDonaldConcert preview: Radiohead and Spiritualized, 8 p.m. Sunday, Paramount Theatre, Seattle; sold out. (But see Backstage Pass article elsewhere in this section for hints on getting tickets to sold-out shows.)Radiohead is the most acclaimed new rock band in years. The British group's eclectic, intriguing

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The Making of OK ComputerTONY WADSWORTH (MD of Parlophone records)I've learned not to expect anything with RH, and that way you are constantly surprised. They had been playing a lot of the songs live over the previous year, so we were starting to get an idea of the sort of album it could be, but a lot of the songs they played live they didn't put on the album. So we left them to it, and checked

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Radiohead rules OKby Allan WigneyThere seems to be a nasty backlash brewing against so-called "Britpop". I do not consider myself a participant. Rather, I saw little or nothing of value in any of these pimply Blurasis types from day one. Since the glory days of The Smiths and the Jesus and Mary Chain, the UK has produced but two bands of merit: the late, lamented Stone Roses, and Radiohead.Two

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Dream Weaversby Matt HendricksonOn their fantastic voyage, OK Computer, Radiohead blast off into uncharted territories - and take a new generation of fans along for the ride.EL CHOLO, a popular Mexican restaurant located smack in the middle of Los Angeles' Koreatown, has the sort of kitchy decor that's part Southwestern stucco and part basement rec room: cheesy wall ornaments, table-top video

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Subterranean AliensRadiohead's got the end-of-the-millennium blues.Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is not a swinger. Neither is guitarist Jonny Greenwood. If they look a bit like fish out of the water in the glaring mid-afternoon haze of Hollywood, they seem even more out of place in swingers, a restaurant reincarnated Aaron Spelling-style as a '50's diner.Tinsel town fashion geeks might dig

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They are serious men with serious sales. But, cautious, paranoid and in no way the new Pink Floyd, Radiohead have their troubles, and they have a new album to promote. Still, as singer Thom Yorke tells Tom Doyle, it's not all terrible news: "murderers have stopped writing to say how much they relate to Creep..."Brightly early most weekday mornings before 9am, when other rock stars still have at

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Radiohead - Getting More Respectby Adrian Gregory GloverOn paper it seems that Radiohead have always been about taking chances. They appeared in 1992 with the year's most powerful ode to mopedom, "Creep". The sudden Chinese-style guitar work provided by Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien set up the vulnerable musings of vocalist Thom Yorke with a refrain that brought them into the spotlight ("I'm a

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RADIOHEAD : The album, song by song, of the yearIn a time when pop and rock have become one big instant-pudding, radiohead have made a 'bavarois' to lick of your fingers. Thom Yorke, singer of radiohead, doesn't know what to be affraid of most: the sudden mega-succes or the praising words in the press.Thom: There are 2 difficult words that are always coming back in the reviews: 'escapistic' and '

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