Radiohead Tour?

[Im The Dude]

I'm sure most of you on here are fans of Radiohead. I have only seen them once in concert and my wife and I really want to go to another show. I like the new album. I even pre-ordered the vinyl edition. I'm sure this will happen but....Will they ever go on tour this year? They seem to want us to wait....but I'm dyin' here....

Anyone else waiting for them to tour?

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

tour dates are still iffy.  nobody knows whats going on with them right now.  (From Ateaseweb.com): http://www.ateaseweb.com/2011/03/24/radiohead-to-issue-newspaper-the-universal-sigh-on-monday/

Radiohead to issue Newspaper 'The Universal Sigh' on Monday

Radiohead will not only release their 8th album 'The King Of Limbs' on Monday, but also a newspaper and a website; The Universal Sigh.

When Radiohead announced their new album, The King Of Limbs, on February 14, they said it was going to be the first newspaper album. The actual Newspaper album will not arrive till early May, but Radiohead are set to issue a Newspaper on the date of the physical retail release: Monday March 28. In some countries (i.e. The Netherlands), the record will be out on Friday March 25 and in other countries (USA, Canada) on Tuesday March 29.

Fans will be able to acquire a newspaper made by the band. The newspaper will be distributed in many capital cities (and several other locations) around the world. Radiohead have produced a newspaper which will be given away, free, gratis, without cost to the consumer by accredited vendors from a multitude of locations WORLDWIDE!

In the USA, in the Netherlands, in Belgium, Poland, Germany, Austria, in the Czech Republic, in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Ireland, France, Italy, Slovakia, Finland, Greece, Norway, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Australia, Latvia, Iceland, Romania, New Zealand, the UK and a load of other places around the globe, our dedicated teams of newspaper delivery people will be handing out copies of THE UNIVERSAL SIGH to anyone who wants one, until we run out!

In conjunction with this unbelievable offer, Radiohead have established THE UNIVERSAL SIGH as a website on the internet, where details of your nearest vendor can be found, as well as more informations and a photogallery where we will be posting photos and the lucky owners of the gratis tabloid are invited to post pictures of themselves and their friends reading the newspaper in locations diverse and unusual.

The band state that there will be other stuff too, "but we haven't thought of it yet." But, just in case you were wondering: This newspaper IS NOT the newspaper that accompanies the Newspaper Album version of The King of Limbs. This event WILL NOT be repeated. This event IS NOT a live performance by Radiohead.

The event will be all around the world as a website will be operational which will host photos of people who have obtained the newspaper, The Universal Sigh, as photos will appear on www.theuniversalsigh.com.

Radiohead will measure the carbon footprint of this project, and to offset the potential ecological impact we will retire the carbon credits used. Carbon Retirement is the most effective method of offsetting, because it is the only way you can be 100% sure that the emission reduction you pay for will take place.

Here are all the locations:

AMSTERDAM Utrechtsestraat 52- 60, 1017 VP Amsterdam
ATHENS 54 Panepistimiou street, Athens, 10678, Greece
AUCKLAND Outside Real Groovy Records, 438 Queen St, Auckland CBD, 1010
BARCELONA Plaza Universidad (08007), Barcelona, Spain
BASEL Media Markt Basel, Güterstr. 115, 4053 Basel, Switzerland
BERLIN Bergmannstrasse / Ecke Mehringdamm, 10961 Berlin, Germany
BOSTON, HARVARD SQUARE 22 Jfk Street Cambridge, MA 02138
BOSTON, NEWBURY STREET Outside Newbury Comics, 332 Newbury Street, Boston 02115
BRATISLAVA Dr. Horak, Medena 19, 81101 Bratislava, Slovakia
BRUSSELS FNAC Brussels, City 2, Nieuwstraat/Rue Neuve, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
BUCHAREST Carturesti, Str. Pictor Arthur Verona 13, Bucharest 010312, Romania
BUDAPEST neon music/musicland, almassy ter 8, 1077 Budapest, Hungary
CHICAGO, UKRAINIAN VILLAGE 1957 West Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60622-5580
CHICAGO, WICKER PARK 26 East Madison st. Chicago, IL 60602
COPENHAGEN University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 76, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
DUBLIN Outside Tower Records, 6-8 Wicklow Street, off Grafton Street, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland
GLASGOW Queen St, Glasgow, G1 2AQ
HAMBURG Schulterblatt / Höhe Flora, 20357 Hamburg, Germany
HELSINKI Stupido Shop, Iso Roobertinkatu 23, 00120 Helsinki, Finland
JAPAN Distribution details coming soon
LAUSANNE FNAC Lausanne, Rue de Genève 6, 1002 Lausanne, Switzerland
LISBON Praça Luís de Camões, 1200-243, Lisboa
LONDON Dray Walk, Truman Brewery, London, E1 6QL
LOS ANGELES, HOLLYWOOD 6400 West Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90028
LOS ANGELES, SILVERLAKE 3700 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026
MADRID Plaza Matute 12, (28012), Madrid, Spain
MANCHESTER Outside Bread and Butter Cafe, Tibs St, Northern Quarter, Manchester
MELBOURNE Polyester Records, 288 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
MILAN Santeria, Via Paladini 8, 20133 Milano, Italy
MINNEAPOLIS, DINKYTOWN 1308 4th Street Southeast Minneapolis, MN 55414
MINNEAPOLIS, UPTOWN 3001 Hennepin Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55408
MONTREAL HMV – 1020 Ste Catherine O, Montreal, QC H3B 2V5
MOSCOW Moscow – 119072, Russia
NEW YORK, SOHO 560 Broadway New York, NY 10012
NEW YORK, TIMES SQUARE 1515 Broadway New York, NY 10036
NEW YORK, UNION SQUARE 4 Union Square South New York, NY 10003
NOVOSIBIRSK Novosibirsk – 630099, Russia
OSLO Platekompaniet, Oslo City, Stenersgate 1, 0050 Oslo, Norway
PARIS Place Georges Pompidou, Junction between Rue Saint Martin and Rue Aubry le Boucher, 75004 Paris
PHILADELPHIA, SOUTH STR AND S. 6TH 538 South Street Philadelphia, PA 19147-2219
PHILADELPHIA, UNIVERSITY CITY 133 South 36th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-3246
PORTLAND, HAWTHORNE 3610 Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard Portland, OR 97214-5144
PORTLAND, MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Portland, OR 97227
PRAGUE Vaclavske namesti 1, 110 00 Praha, Czech Republic
REYKJAVIK Smekkleysa, Laugavegur 35, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
RIGA Nabaklab, Zigfrida Annas Meierovica bulvaris 12, Riga, Latvia LV-1010
SAN FRANCISCO, HAIGHT ST Outside the Amoeba, 1855 Haight Street San Francisco, CA 94117
SAN FRANCISCO, MISSION DISTRICT 3004 16th St # 303 San Francisco, CA 94103-3462
SANTA MONICA 1248 3rd St. Promenade Santa Monica, CA 90401
SEATTLE, BALLARD 5449 Ballard Avenue Northwest Seattle, WA 98107-4052
SEATTLE, CAPITOL HILL 917 East Pine Street Seattle, WA 98122-3843
STOCKHOLM Bengans Skivbutik, Drottninggatan 20, 111 51 Stockholm, Sweden
SYDNEY Redeye Records, 66 King Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
TALLINN Viru Keskus, Viru valjak 4, 11314 Tallinn, ESTONIA
TORONTO Yonge and Dundas Square – NW corner
VANCOUVER HMV – 1160 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6E 1B2, Canada
VIENNA Ende Mariahilferstrasse / Höhe Rahlgasse, 1070 Wien, Austria
VILNIUS Muzikos bomba music shop, Vilniaus str. 22, Vilnius, LT-01402, Lithuania
WARSAW Nowy Swiat 63, 00-042 Warszawa, Poland
WASHINGTON DC, JEFFERSON AND 7TH 784 Jefferson Street Northwest Washington DC, DC 20011
WASHINGTON DC, UNION STATION 50 Massachusetts Avenue Northeast Washington D.C., DC 20002

[Im The Dude]

I preordered the vinyl on their website. And It sucks that I live hours away from anywhere where they will be giving those papers out.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

I preordered the vinyl on their website. And It sucks that I live hours away from anywhere where they will be giving those papers out.

you can read the whole thing here:
http://issuu.com/peterboorsma/docs/the_universal_sigh

really cool layout.

[Im The Dude]

Thanks for posting! Did you get a hard copy?

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

Thanks for posting! Did you get a hard copy?

nah, I pre-ordered the mp3s but didn't get any of the cool packages.  have you heard about these two new songs they're releasing on April 16th?

[Im The Dude]

I have. Im gonna try to make it to my local record store for that.

[MarkW]

I don't get the whole album.  To me, it sounds more like a Thom Yorke solo project.  I'm not sure I've got the heart to give it another chance.  :(

[ChiefOKONO]

I liked it but thought it was too short and a bit too mellow.  Eventually i decided I thought that the last one is better.
I also have been listening to the Eraser and to me it sounds more like radiohead than solo

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

here's an early version of Supercollider:
Thom Yorke - Super Collider at the Orpheum 10/5/09

The King Of Limbs has grown on me a bit.  I think it's the starting point of a lot more songs.  I might just be stoned but I think The King of Limbs is the trunk of the tree and I'm betting their going to keep releasing EPs, singles, etc over the next year.  Thom Yorke has said over and over in interviews that he is pretty tired of doing LP's.  he says "they're too much work".  Thom's plan seems to be holding true to some degree in that regard.  Now they have their own studio, can leak their own material, etc. 

On the new album there are a lot of little things that I think are deliberately taken from the past.  Some of the beats remind of "The Gloaming",  I think it's the last track that they go all the back to tones and effects they used on the song Planet Telex.   In the newspaper the first article is "I Froze Up".  which is another unreleased tune:

thom yorke - cambridge, 25.feb.2010 - i froze up

they're too pretentious to not have something else in store.  they're not known as one of the most innovative bands in the history of recorded music because they're predictable.  who knows what they'll do tho, just speculating.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

here's the mp3s for that show above.  the setlist is really bizarre.  lots of rarities and quite a few of the early version of songs from The King Of Limbs:

01. The Clock
02. The Eraser
03. Weird Fishes
04. The Daily Mail  (Unreleased)
05. Pyramid Song
06. Harrowdown Hill
07. Lotus Flower
08. Give Up The Ghost
09. These Are My Twisted Words (first time played solo, second time played live.. I think..)
10. I Froze Up  (Unreleased/Rare Performance)
11. Like Spinning Plates
12. Black Swan
13. Cymbal Rush
14. Videotape
15. Mouse Dog Bird (Now known as "Separator")
16. Reckoner
17. Airbag  (fucking awesome.)
18. Atoms For Peace
19. True Love Waits

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VAGWETKU

[Im The Dude]

sticky,
thats an awesome upload...I will download it. I know what you mean about releasing EPs and singles over the next several months. I love this band. I hope we get a tour this summer. I'd travel to see them just like I would with My Morning Jacket. "I froze up" I have a copy of that from a web cast from early 2000's which they did a cover of "Winter Wonderland".

And yes, it has grown on me. I can not wait for my copy to come in the mail. I have no idea what it's going to look like but I can't wait to hear it on my record player.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

sticky,
thats an awesome upload...I will download it. I know what you mean about releasing EPs and singles over the next several months. I love this band. I hope we get a tour this summer. I'd travel to see them just like I would with My Morning Jacket. "I froze up" I have a copy of that from a web cast from early 2000's which they did a cover of "Winter Wonderland".

And yes, it has grown on me. I can not wait for my copy to come in the mail. I have no idea what it's going to look like but I can't wait to hear it on my record player.

I remember that for sure.  Is it from "gigantic lying mouth" or something else?  can't remember.  here's an early magpie version for anybody who hasn't heard it:

Radiohead - Morning m'lord or good morning Mr Magpie

[Im The Dude]

wow I downloaded that back in 2004 or 05....

Sticky,

You making it to Record Story day?

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

wow I downloaded that back in 2004 or 05....

Sticky,

You making it to Record Story day?

I don't really even know what it is or where it is.  is it going to be awesome? what's it all about? records?

[Im The Dude]

Record store day....sorry.