2001

With no singles from the album there was nowhere to put the videos, and the band now feel sad about the decision that left them on the shelf.

Radiohead went to number one in America with Kid A, the Observer notes, but at home Colin says it is getting harder for the band's music to be heard.

The second record from the Kid A sessions has been done for half a year, and what keeps it waiting is its sleeve and its films.

The follow-up to Kid A finally has a date, a little over four months away.

Two of the band are at the film festival in Utah, and Thom Yorke says a film score is something Radiohead mean to try one day.

The next Radiohead album is finished and almost nobody has heard it, which is exactly how its singer likes it.

Kid A passes a million copies in America eight days before the Grammys, where it is up for Album of the Year.

Anyone expecting the old Radiohead sound after Kid A may be disappointed, says the producer who made both records.

From an Argentine daily to an American student paper, the critics' lists of 2000 put Kid A near the top.

If it comes off, Radiohead's guitarist and drummer spend a week on stage with a man who has known them since before they had a hit.

The baby comes as the band get Amnesiac, their fifth album, ready for Parlophone to release on 4 June.

Kid A went to the Grammys with four nominations, two of them for Nigel Godrich alone, and came away with one award.

Three months before the album is out, fans have all 11 titles, among them a reworked song from Kid A.

It is the one date in Britain the band have planned this year, and they are playing it in their home town.

The first listeners report more guitar than on Kid A, with the vocals and drums pushed further forward.

Four new songs can now be heard at home.

With Amnesiac due in June, the band's summer in Europe now runs from Spain to Oxford, by way of a Roman theatre and two German festivals.

Fans get their first look at the new album two months before it reaches the shops.

For a week the two Radiohead members were in a band with the guitarist O'Brien counts as one of the reasons he plays at all.

The song that beat the band during the Kid A sessions closes Amnesiac, and it took a trumpeter from the 1950s jazz revival to get it finished.

The prize was for the band site that does best at keeping in touch with its fans, at the first awards NME.COM have held for music on the web.

He also denies that a song on the forthcoming Amnesiac is aimed at the prime minister.

Over coffee, the brothers say the new album is a second selection from the Kid A songs.

The tour for Amnesiac runs from a pavilion outside Houston in June to the Hollywood Bowl in August, with the Beta Band opening throughout.

Yorke covers the long making of Amnesiac, what “Knives Out” is really about, and what he knows about MI5 but won't repeat.

With Amnesiac under three weeks from the shops, Colin Greenwood is already picturing the record after it.

Two days of argument over whether to make one double album are why Kid A and Amnesiac came out as separate records.

The first single from Amnesiac goes out on BBC One in its first week in the shops.

In the week before it reaches the shops, the critics hear Kid A carried further, and only the Los Angeles Times finds the new record the easier of the two to love.

Radiohead talked about putting the two records out three months apart, and they are tired of the old rule of one album every three years.

Several critics note the new album is no return to guitar rock, and split on whether it matches Kid A or only follows it.

The homecoming on 7 July now has its full bill, and two of the places on it went to local bands picked from demo tapes.

Radiohead's biggest opening week in America is still not enough to reach the top, days after the album went straight to number one in Britain.

The first night finds Thom Yorke in a playful mood and the new Amnesiac songs already working on an American crowd.

Sitting in the sun in Oxford with his tea, a new father explains why the band walked away from the road OK Computer had opened for them.

For many American fans this summer is the first chance to hear the Kid A songs played live, after only three North American shows last autumn.

In June a trade paper backs the band, a Florida daily calls the record Kid A's leftovers and a student critic finds a bridge back to OK Computer.

The Irish promoter's website also names “Knives Out” as the band's next single.

New York has only seen Radiohead headline clubs and theatres so far, and this August they take on the Garden for the first time.

A band who toured last year in a tent of their own, the Guardian recalls, to keep sponsors' logos away, have made a sponsor-free campaign the price of their help.

The second single from Amnesiac has a longer “Life in a Glasshouse” among the B-sides.

The band speak their own lines in an episode American viewers saw two weeks ago.

Answering Greg Kot by email, Yorke also explains why Kid A and Amnesiac were never going to be one double album.

Away from the British and American press, four early reviews of the new record run from praise for its risks to a forecast that Radiohead will end up like Yes.

With an easy crowd and no arrests outside, the night helps the case for many more ticketed shows in Chicago's lakefront park.

Their manager explains how the five decide.

Answering fans online, he said the band are already arranging material for the record after Amnesiac, and still can't settle on how to record “True Love Waits”.

The second Amnesiac single goes in eight places below where “Pyramid Song” started in May.

The American summer tour loses its two Virginia nights, the weekend between Cleveland and Boston.

Alex Ross followed the band from Bilbao to Oxford and came back with a row about capitalism, a chord nobody could remember and the night Oxford got “Creep” back.

Three months on, Amnesiac has a new champion in a critic who never got on with Kid A, and a Florida paper that calls it the leftovers.

The band were on stage in Berlin on the night, seven weeks after Amnesiac made the shortlist of 12.

The band's homecoming concert in July is now paying to help people who have come to their city seeking asylum.

A song fans have heard in concert for almost six years, and never on any record, is finally coming out in November.

Songs pieced together in the studio from samples and found sound are being rebuilt by hand every night, with a piano and an upright bass added for these dates.

It is the band's first Q Award since OK Computer was named Best Album in 1997.

Radiohead treat the jazz albums they love as targets they know they will miss, and Greenwood says they enjoy the sound of missing.

Radiohead only cleared the film's first showing at the last minute.

Three months after the September attacks, Yorke's seasonal note to the band's mailing list turns from holiday wishes to how the world should answer violence.

After the Amnesiac tour the band's sights are on a sixth album, and they would rather test its songs on stage than play a festival.