1.) Since I talked about the cold and Radiohead in my last post: I haven't managed to organise my notes about my three concert experiences yet, but this here is an accurate representation of me at the last one. Coldest concert of their career, according to Thom Yorke - who arrived on stage visibly shivering and didn't stop griping about the cold ( Read more... )

at how my escalating Radiohead obsession stole away my energy for the LoM archive trawl I'd begun in February, actually. LoM is still the fandom I'm "writing" fic about in my mind all the time, so it's definitely still an active fandom for me. But my fannish reading, in the last few months, has been Citizen Insane - a mindbogglingly huge collection ( Read more... )

I'm still searching for the perfect King of Limbs era concert, but here's some official videos from different eras to tide you over. ;-)

First, the classic, Street Spirit:

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This is a video they only released on the internet, I think. The song's from In Rainbows:

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And this is my favourite result from a video contest they held at the time of In ( Read more... )

(Just in case you're wondering what phase of the cycle I'm in today.)

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Actually I have a question that I'm probably not going to get any answers to...

If you're among the people who have only a very vague idea of Radiohead, and have a couple of minutes to spare (experts need not apply):
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I sure wouldn't have expected that in 2012, I'd be watching/listening to band interviews from the early nineties while folding my laundry.

Think I'm gonna try for that after all, when the normal tickets go on sale (possibly sometime today?) - even though it's in October, when I'll hopefully be back at work, and on a Monday. I hope they're using tickets.de again. That site seems to have a decent reselling/transferring procedure in place, so it should be possible to sell my ticket, in ( Read more... )

So I'm exorcising the Radiohead thoughts by doing a quick RH spam here.

Second week of the tour just started, and there's yet another new song already, as well as some rarities nobody ever expected to hear at a concert in 2012 - like this eleven years old b-side that had never been played live at allActually, the new song isn't a new song. Rather ( Read more... )

Right. So the tour kicked off on Monday, and they're gonna be touring through most of the rest of the year, so I'll probably be posting a bit about that from time to time here. (It's still completely impossible to tell whether I'll be able to attend any of the gigs I got tickets for, btw. *sigh ( Read more... )

One thing I enjoy doing occasionally: seeking out Thom Yorke covers of songs by bands like Joy Division and The Smiths, whose singers have low voices compared to the falsetto Yorke has become associated with in the public imagination, and reading the surprised comments about how low his voice can go ( Read more... )

One thing I find puzzling and fascinating is the way the romantic idea of the genius, and perhaps specifically, some version of the romantic idea of the poet, is somehow still a recognisable component of the idea of the rock star - and how oddly that sits with the business aspect, and the "macho" aspect, and the "big production" aspect (dozens of ( Read more... )