Radiohead count gold discs in their newsletter
The band's one-page look back at 1993 weighs its lows at home against a year in which “Creep” took them round the world.
News archive
1994
Radiohead in 1994, written up from the press of the day.
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january
february
Radiohead's “Creep” loses Best British Single to Take That at the Brits
Parlophone asked fans to phone in their votes for “Creep”, which Radio 1 had nominated for best single.
april
Radiohead book their first Australian tour for June
It will be the first time the band have played live in Australia, and a limited-edition souvenir EP is due for the visit.
may
Radiohead take their new songs round Europe, ending at Rock am Ring
From Seville to the Nürburgring, audiences have heard sets heavy with songs that are on no record yet.
Thom Yorke sprains his ankle at Radiohead's Manchester University show
Half a dozen songs are played for the first time, among them “Bones” and “Black Star”.
Radiohead play the Wulfrun Hall after Thom Yorke's ankle X-ray
In the middle of three British dates, Thom Yorke goes on with an ankle he sprained the night before in Manchester.
Radiohead end their spring tour at the Astoria with eight new songs
Thom Yorke arrives at the London Astoria with a sprained ankle and a worn voice.
Thom Yorke names Radiohead's second album Belisha Beacon
The tour-guide issue of the band's official fanzine catches them between the studio and a summer on the road.
june
Ed O'Brien talks up Radiohead's second album in Drum Media
Sydney's street press gives Radiohead its cover before their first show in the city, and O'Brien uses it to play down the song that got them there.
Radiohead play Japan for the first time, with Itch out for the tour
The first trip east brings five club shows and a mini-album of B-sides and live recordings put together for the visit.
Thom Yorke tells Melody Maker the tour is pushing him too far
Radiohead's first British dates since November leave their singer injured, hoarse and dreading the biggest night of the run.
Guitars go to the front rows at Radiohead's first New Zealand show
A late addition to the tour gives Christchurch the band's first night in the country, a day before Auckland.
Radiohead play the Powerstation in Auckland
The second of two nights in New Zealand closes the band's short run through Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.
Glastonbury sings Happy Birthday to Radiohead's Colin Greenwood
On the NME Stage the band play three new songs, and seem thoroughly tired of “Creep”.
Chile's new Rock & Pop magazine reviews Pablo Honey
A new Chilean magazine's reviewer calls Radiohead the best thing to come out of England lately and says “Creep” has already joined rock's great songs.
july
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood play “Bullet Proof” backstage at Roskilde
The festival set leans on songs nobody can buy yet, and the radio session backstage digs up one the band have hardly ever played.
Radiohead's next single slips to September, the album to early 1995
The band's summer newsletter owns up to the missing May single and books an autumn UK tour with The Julie Dolphin.
august
Radiohead play Poland for the first time, on the Sopot pier
Radiohead top the bill over four Polish bands, at a festival where few in the crowd know who they are.
Radiohead play Reading's main stage a year after pulling out
The field claps along to “Creep”, but Melody Maker finds the rest of the set too small for the big stage.
september
Radiohead play four unreleased songs for Radio 1's Evening Session
Twelve days before “My Iron Lung” is out, the band spend their session on songs nobody can buy yet.
Radiohead raise £7,000 for Rwanda at the Old Gaol in Abingdon
The band fill a hall in the town where they met at school.
october
Thom Yorke had meant to quit Radiohead, NME reports
The band nearly stopped in the winter of 1993, the same year that gave Thom Yorke “My Iron Lung”, his song aimed at “Creep”.
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood play “My Iron Lung” on MTV's Most Wanted
Midway through the UK tour for the new single, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood take it onto live European television as a duo.
Radiohead put out “My Iron Lung” with six new songs behind it
The first record from the sessions for the second album spreads six new songs over two CDs, and its title track was taken from a London concert.
Radiohead finish their first tour of Mexico in Pachuca
Rather than fly in for one big show in the capital, the band spent two weeks finding audiences in clubs and theatres around the country.
november
Radiohead to play a benefit for Oxford's Jericho Tavern
The Oxford pub room Thom Yorke says got Radiohead started is to stop putting on bands in January.
Radiohead's second album is finished and due in January
Thom Yorke and Colin Greenwood tell a fanzine why the wait since Pablo Honey has been so long.
december
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood play the Beacon as a duo
A New York radio crowd hears two songs that are not yet on any record, and gets “You”, not the “Creep” some of them call for.