2004

Moby takes the Radiohead cover he has been playing in his own sets to American network television.

For one morning the questions Yorke had been carrying around all year became the work of Radio 4's reporters, and he says he would happily do it again.

The interviews, choices and Maida Vale session from Radiohead's Christmas week on BBC 6 Music can still be heard.

W.A.S.T.E. tell members the final fan entries to the Loophole competition are online, and the site will close a month later.

The band are spending the winter gap in the tour recording, though nobody is yet saying whether the new songs are meant for a seventh album.

The four animators behind the video say they were working past their abilities when they made it.

Radiohead join the Berkeley timetable this spring, in a class that students set up and run themselves.

Only a handful of the year's lists put the album first, and the White Stripes take the big British polls.

Until the start of May, Radiohead's third album plays to a planetarium dome full of lasers in Michigan every weekend.

Belgian audiences can see three Radiohead-related films in one week, two of them with their directors on hand.

Radiohead's guitarist and his partner are home from hospital with a baby boy.

In a column signed as the singer of Radiohead, Yorke defends the BBC journalism the report condemned and asks why Britain went to war.

The London company plans more than 100 DVDs from the festival's 3,500 hours of film over the next 10 years.

Thom Yorke, a neighbour of the Ashmolean Museum, says the route planned for its building works would make his part of Oxford uninhabitable.

The film Greenwood scored reaches home video in mid-February, and the band's shop is selling it below the usual price.

Of Radiohead's four nominations at this year's Grammys, the one that wins is for the way the album was recorded.

A vicar who once gave a Radiohead single to a charity shop now builds a whole church service around the band.

NME's readers, voting in bigger numbers than ever, have made Hail to the Thief their album of the year.

The reports grew out of Phil Selway's offer to help the charity with a run of benefit shows.

Radiohead's only nomination this year goes to the band who led the field with four.

With their record deal fulfilled, the five are taking turns in the studio, with shows in Japan, Australia and at Coachella still to come.

Rolling Stone's yearly table of music's top earners credits Radiohead with $10 million from American touring and record sales.

The latest shops to give the 7-inch away are mostly independents in the American South, from Atlanta to Louisville.

Greenwood writes for the instrument he first heard as a schoolboy, and leaves the playing of it to two soloists.

Fourteen members of the At Ease message board each recorded a Radiohead song at home, and the album they made is free to download.

Among the handful of records behind the novel, its author lists one by Radiohead, and cannot say why it belongs there.

Two weeks after the Bodysong score reached American shops, American public radio puts Jonny at the top of its bill.

An actor, a novelist, a DJ and a singer or two mention Radiohead in recent interviews, not all of them kindly.

A former host of 120 Minutes recalls a 9am session and the day Thom Yorke thanked MTV for sticking with The Bends.

A piece of Radiohead's NME Awards night in February has found a buyer, on nothing more than the seller's word that it is genuine.

The Welsh musician blames the band for losing his record against the war, and says Thom Yorke shouted at him when he asked why.

The planetarium show from New York's Rose Center has come west, and its first music under the stars is still Radiohead's.

Greenwood talks through pictures from the museum's photography collection, and one of them puts him in mind of life on tour.

Fans in Australia get the Japanese release Com Lag in their own shops shortly before the band arrive, though the planned tour EP is off.

The critics keep returning to what Jonny Greenwood found hardest about writing the score, that no tune could ever come back.

The quartet's arranger knows some Radiohead fans think he is cashing in, and he has an answer about who earns from the records.

Greenwood explains how he balanced the Bodysong score, why he listens with his eyes shut, and says the band are meeting to plan what comes next.

The Japan-only CD puts the B-sides of the three Hail to the Thief singles on one disc, and opens with a live “2 + 2 = 5” that has not been released before.

A close reading of the song that opens Hail to the Thief argues that Radiohead's music pushes back against the fans who lose themselves in it.

A second edition of the band's 2000 biography is on the way.

In the same issue Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears says sorry to Thom Yorke for the cover of “Creep” he made as a joke.

The Japanese B-sides disc has its first reviews, and NME likes it a good deal more than Pitchfork does.

Another board signed by the band goes up for bids, in an Amnesty sale built around this year's Coachella bill.

Both tunes are new Radiohead music rather than clips of released songs, and the shop lets buyers hear them before ordering.

Six weeks after Donwood promised a new radiohead.com, it is open, and it wants to know a few things about each visitor before letting them in.

Greenwood's film score and his band share a festival bill in the California desert.

The May 2004 Record Collector prints a two-page UK discography of Radiohead with prices, and puts the Drill EP at £250 on CD.

Back in Australia for the first time since 1998, Greenwood reports that all five members of Radiohead are now fathers.

Two of the band used the gap between Japan and Australia to give interviews in a country this tour leaves out.

Anyone at both Entertainment Centre shows heard more than a third of the set change, with “Lucky” and “We Suck Young Blood” turning up on the second.

Printed as Radiohead reach Melbourne, the conversation goes back to summer 2003, with Hail to the Thief just out and the Iraq war only months old.

Posting from Melbourne before the tour's last shows, Thom Yorke describes a boy band staging a screaming arrival at the band's hotel.

The last date of the Australian tour is gone, and the band's promoter is relying on antibiotics to get Thom Yorke to Coachella on Saturday.

Toshiba-EMI say the faulty first discs will not be recalled, so the hissing version of the B-sides EP stays a pressing for Japan alone.

After what became the last show of the Australian tour, Jonny Greenwood tells Undercover how an album takes shape and why Hail to the Thief's songs have two titles.

Guitar World's readers place Jonny Greenwood's playing on “Paranoid Android” in the top 40 of their 100 favourite guitar solos.

The pianist behind True Love Waits is spending 2004 taking his transcriptions round American concert halls, often after a classical first half.

In an Australian interview Colin Greenwood looks back over the band's career and admits he has no idea what the next Radiohead record will be.

Denmark is the fourth country this year to get the band's first Montreux concert on air, and its version comes with interviews between the songs.

Both magazines carry interviews after the April shows, and Crossbeat is putting all its Radiohead coverage into one book.

The Clinic singer credits the support slot with making his band's name in America, though he wishes critics would stop comparing the two.

A brand-new university planetarium gives Radiohead's music one of its first slots, played out in coloured light.

Bought on import in both countries, the B-sides disc is in the Canadian top 50 and the British top 40.

A Radiohead guitarist with no training in composition now has a full orchestra to write for, on almost any terms he likes.

Asked whether any band now could change everything, the former Smashing Pumpkins singer says no, and holds up Radiohead as his case in point.

In an academic journal, Jonny Greenwood explains his ondes Martenot habit and the laptop patch that plays on after the band stop.

Three weeks after the last Hail to the Thief show, three of the five gave a Sunday night in their home town to a children's hospice.

Six years after their two Ivors for OK Computer songs, Radiohead are back at the songwriters' awards, and three of them turned up to collect this one.

From “Creep” to “Everything in Its Right Place”, the band's songbook goes bluegrass in a single medley.

The Sun had Radiohead on the bill of a new debt-relief concert, but Geldof says no such show is in the works.

Of every tour Laika have played, the one Fiedler would pick is opening for Radiohead in the ancient ruins of France.

A film night that set The Matrix to Radiohead records needed nobody's permission, and its maker asked anyway; a DVD of it would be another matter.

BBC Radio 4's comedy news show imagines a Radiohead who have cheered up, with a little help from Rainbow.

Radiohead's bass player sat with the Poet Laureate on the panel behind a list meant to find poetry new readers, ten years after the first one.

The Allman Brothers guitarist opened his solo acoustic Bonnaroo set with a Radiohead song, and his manager wanted to know if he was sure.

An Australian TV countdown and an American magazine both put Radiohead's third album in rock's all-time company this month.

The French music channel gives last summer's Belfort festival show six late-night airings between mid-June and early July.

Michael Stipe rang Thom Yorke to own up to borrowing, and found out the idea had been the two of theirs all along.

Two magazines asking the same question a few weeks apart put Radiohead's 1997 album in very different places.

Of all the bands David Gray opened for in his years on the road, Radiohead were the kind ones, even after his band wrecked their party.

With the W.A.S.T.E. staff on holiday, a notice from Mittens the office cat cuts prices on newer shirts and drops postage.

Two awards for the people behind the sound, one for the record and one for the shows, are decided in San Francisco in October.

A year after Radiohead's own set there, two of the festival's acts brought their songs along.

A Q magazine panel puts Radiohead's singer and their producer among the 100 people with the most pull in the music business.

A recording from the spring shows in Japan is coming out as a charity download, and War Child's new site will be the only place to buy it.

Brazilian audiences get Jonny Greenwood's film score and the work of the video makers behind some of Radiohead's clips.

Asked by Musikexpress about their duet, Björk says she was struck by how long Yorke spent singing a three-minute song.

Moby's take on the election season puts Radiohead fans on the losing side of a sales chart.

Chapel Hill's planetarium hands the band's records the late Saturday slot again for a few weeks this autumn.

Seven Radiohead songs make the station's listeners' poll this year, and the highest of them climbs three places to the top.

A class in Ohio takes Radiohead seriously enough to set homework on them.

Since late August, Radiohead records have been playing under other people's pictures, from Danish news adverts to a BBC sports interview.

Radiohead's drummer, a Samaritans volunteer since his student days, tells young people they are not too young for the work.

It is at least the third time Yorke has sung Patti Smith's part in the song with R.E.M., friends of his since Radiohead toured with them in 1995.

The festival that lost its Long Island site the summer before last has a farm and a permit, and its dates wait on one answer.

A whole night from the Hail to the Thief tour reaches American television, alongside a 2001 film that is mostly Thom Yorke talking frankly.

Yorkshire CND credit Yorke with drawing many of the people who went up on the moors to protest at the radar base.

Audioscope, the Oxford gigs for the homelessness charity Shelter, is selling draw tickets at a pound each until the middle of October.

The Flaming Lips' singer reckons the airplay his band stumble into is something Radiohead could have at will, and turn down.

Promoting a single about Richard Nixon, the Manics' bassist explains which of the two men his band are.

Velvet Revolver's guitarist has never managed to see Radiohead play, but for a couple of months they were the only band in his car.

Nominated for a title they had won three years running, Radiohead lose Q's Best Act in the World Today to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The Conservatives' policy co-ordinator takes cheer from three bands known for criticising his party.

The only way to hear Radiohead's half of the music is still to see the dance, since the band have kept it off record and played it live just once.

Public radio's classical listeners have now heard, on the piano, a Radiohead song the band have never put out.

Fans who missed the web broadcasts get the whole channel on one disc, music that is on no Radiohead record included, and only the band are selling it.

In a burst of late-night replies, Yorke explains that the sound at the end of “Go to Sleep” is something Jonny Greenwood built in software.

Kieran Hebden tells an Australian magazine how his Radiohead remix came about and how the band had it on loud in their dressing room.

The video of the new “Do They Know It's Christmas?”, with Thom and Jonny in shot, went out on every main British channel at the same moment on Thursday evening.

Chris Turner paid more per word to quote Radiohead's lyrics than any magazine has ever paid him to write, and blames the music business for it.

Both picks come from the band's 1990s albums, chosen by a panel of musicians, critics and producers for the magazine's first list of the 500 greatest songs.

Writers from four countries take on the band's music and the business around it, with a composer sampled on Kid A among them.

Yorke's caption for the picture is an angry attack on rich governments that dump their goods on farmers in poor countries.

U2's singer would love to hear Thom Yorke's voice between the boy bands, but says the band owe nobody a hit.

The November reports of a Radiohead cameo in the next Harry Potter film named only Jonny; Cocker's line-up has the drummer in it too.

The Band Aid 20 single sold nearly 300,000 copies in its first week, most of them on CD.

One song from a New York session that only about 150 people saw is coming out on a compilation in January.

The official site gets a new front image and title after a week of small changes to its headings.

Radiohead's “Creep” goes to the final night of the talent show, sung by a group hoping to win it.