Radiohead: Classic or Dud?

lol

So is that the right or the left SoK drummer

https://watch.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/livestream-1/backup/livestream1.html

just tuned in and they're playing right now. sounding very krauty which is promising. jonny's on bass

they apparently played unreleased radiohead song "skirting on the surface" that's been floating around for like 15 years now

several of the songs were really good. it's been announced that colin, phil, and ed have been sacked. colin because both thom and jonny can demonstrably cover it and their overall sound with just bass + guitar is really lovely and open, a relief of sorts from the pre-sacked radiohead. phil was sacked because this new guy is a much better drummer, has jazz-chops and can thus improvise, his feel and approach is much more appropriate for modern-day thom+jonny, and because he has hair. also because can he sing, too. ed was sacked because he's fucking macca now

Radio ... dead? Say it ain't so.

Is the bassist the only one that has no had his side project yet?

....wow, really?

colin hasn't released any solo albums or anything but has played on a bunch of other things here and there, including solo work by thom, jonny & ed, and a gaz coombes album

they've been sacked

Nah.

i can personally confirm karl's source on this.

lol

so what you are saying is the people responsible for saying they've been sacked have been sacked?

‘They’ve been sacked’ is a classic Thom lyric iirc.

it was ed sleeping with paul that was the final catalyst for the sacking

Ooh, I like this opening song of the set's 4+4+3 11/8 rhythm--the following one's cool too, with a unison-line main riff that I could imagine Theon Cross from Sons of Kemet playing as bassline-on-tuba

Also, someone obv needs to radio Ed

the first song is "skirting on the surface", here's older versions of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGm1dxyOSco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmhgbVnqnqo

the live link above is now showing honey dijon dj'ing in a bus which is pretty cool too

you can scroll down and use the progress bar to go back to the previously aired stuff if you want to catch up on it

there were some really good ones in the middle of the set, and also jonny played 16th notes for like 10 minutes across a couple different songs.

some of this stuff is exactly the sort of direction i've wanted radiohead to go in for a while (the krauty groove-based stuff) & some of it is just kinda meandering but i'm very intrigued overall

funny to see jonny's signature huge strums applied to playing bass too lol

Yeah, really nice rhythmic delay by JG on both those tunes--caught a glimpse of a Moog Taurus or somesuch synth bass setup being stepped on by him at some point, too.

also really fun to watch thom playing bass and jonny on guitar on one song, and then they swap instruments for the next! sick

my favourite is the 7th (i think?) one "we don't know what tomorrow brings" etc.

I don’t think Radiohead operate as that sort of band. Sure Jonny and Thom are the most important elements but it’s not like the rest are ego-tripping into thinking the band works solely because or their input. If anything excluding Thom they’re a very selfless band.

Even Jonny who might be the greatest asset of the band seems to hate the spotlight.

anything i post is a joke

as a longtime fan, that's the image, but if 3 cannonballs are flying we all want them to knock phil, ed, and colin, off the boat. the very last cannon would result in some sort of shipbeam falling over and thom and jonny fighting with swords at dawn. but there's no way it would be anyone other than them. it's true that "radiohead" as a sound is all 5 of them together. i love the way they sound all together. but still, the core of the band is those two, for the last 25+years

Forget it I just watched the first 15 mins and sons of kemet drummer is amazing. They need to ditch everyone and just make Radiohead be that guy.

^^

jonny and thom play so well together, with a drum machine. but every time they play with another drummer it's with other musicians. they get to play with clive, but phil is there. they get to play with joey waronker, but flea is there. when it's just thom and jonny + the sons of kemet guy, though: that's good. that's very good. that's a drummer who is comfortable with playing loosely and improvising - as are thom and jonny, and as are NOT the rest of the band imo

But seriously: wow

i immediately take that back

colin can handle it: but damn, they sound so nice and open as a 3-piece

if you haven't heard them Sons of Kemet are rad as hell

whatever it is,

But seriously: wow

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

otm

Excluding the last two songs - particularly the “rock”’one I think it’s 7, sounded like a demo of a non-descript new wave band - the first 4/5 songs have great grooves

anywhere to watch this now?

found it on the dreaded reddit

thanks

that was cool, never getting over my radiohead phase it seems

Here you go

https://bcovlive-a.akamaihd.net/a1a395c883004c05b3184dc2ea9570f1/eu-west-1/6252938537001/profile_0/chunklist_dvr.m3u8

It seems the whole concert is there: haim, coldplay, damon albarn, jorja smith, kano... the smile are at at the 2 hour 40 min mark.

phil is walking along a quiet river path. life is like a river, in some ways, he thinks. mostly made of water. he absent-mindedly starts tapping out a familiar rhythm -- no, no. that time is over now

lol

this didn't do much for me, although i wasn't paying close attention. aside from a few tracks from the eraser i don't really enjoy thom outside of RH

Just now watching the Glastonbury recording, love it!

Thom Yorke remixes Creep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYRAGR91CHQ

what the hell is he doing here?

it was commissioned for a fashion show last year

oh actually from earlier this year

I thought he was trolling when he played it on that fashion show. It used to be just a slowed down version of the acoustic version of Creep, but he added some synths around the 3 minute mark that almost redeem the “remix”.

Still think he’s trolling with this.

the synths aren't new to this release, it was like that in the fashion show too

i think they specifically asked for a creep remix as the show was called "creep very" and this is what he came up with

Yeah you’re probably right. I didn’t really pay attention back then.