1998

OK Computer ends the year-end season as album of the year for Mojo, Vox, Hot Press and the Q Awards, with Spin's band of the year title thrown in.

Across its two CDs the single carries “Palo Alto”, “How I Made My Millions” and live recordings of “Airbag” from Berlin and “Lucky” from Florence.

The band were between Japan and New Zealand on the night, so their thanks came on tape.

Radiohead would not play either of this season's big awards shows, and the American one has given OK Computer a prize anyway.

Far from the music weeklies, a Brazilian critic finds no surprises in OK Computer while American student papers give it a perfect 10 and an album of the year.

Spiritualized will now open every night of the spring tour, from Houston on 28 March to two nights at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

The singles from The Bends and OK Computer come together on one tape, the band's first video collection since Live at the Astoria.

Once the American dates are done in April, Yorke expects the band to stop for as long as a year, and doubts there will be a new album before 2000.

The collaboration the two bands have talked about since last year now has a season and a place to happen.

With Edmonton left off the tour, many of its fans made the trip south to a junior hockey arena for a show without “Creep”.

Isabel Monteiro wrote the song and shares it with Yorke, whose sleeve credit says he appears courtesy of Parlophone.

Songwriters vote for the Ivors, and this year they picked Radiohead over Robbie Williams, Cornershop and the Verve.

Each of the five writes from home about the year behind them and how he is spending the summer off.

Ed O'Brien also rules out a new Radiohead album this year: the band will start work on it properly in November.

Fans who lost Radiohead's closing set to the storm got the band back twice over, at a club that same night and at the stadium a day later.

Samaritans volunteers usually keep their work to themselves, and Selway has set that aside to help the charity reach 15- to 24-year-olds this summer.

Todd Haynes's glam-rock film is in British cinemas, and the band put together for its soundtrack has two members of Radiohead in it.

The band are taking a rest from letter writing, so the four people who run the fan club write this issue themselves.

Nobody asked the band before a Los Angeles theatre put their words on stage, and they would have liked the courtesy, but they will not shut it down.

The film of Radiohead's year on the road after OK Computer has its first showing, and it ends with Thom Yorke tired of the album.

A Radiohead covers night from their Jericho Tavern days is now the raw material for a local synth act's festive record.