2006

The 1990 tape holds early forms of two Radiohead B-sides, recorded on a four-track by a band still using another name.

The request shows Radiohead are planning a summer tour, with two June nights already set aside for Chicago.

After two summers without a British festival, Radiohead will close one in Essex and one in Staffordshire on consecutive nights in August.

Word that Yorke has a record of his own on the way comes from a film studio, not from the band.

With their EMI deal behind them, the band plan to put new songs out as downloads when they are ready instead of making fans wait a year for an album.

A short post on Dead Air Space, signed by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, asks what economic growth is worth as the seas rise.

In the same interview Yorke says the lyrics for Radiohead's next album are more terrifying than those of OK Computer, and that it is no political record.

A London date the band never booked was being advertised, while every real date on their tour is already sold out.

The artist behind Radiohead's sleeves since 1994 gets a gallery to himself for the first time, from 19 May.

The band are back in the United States for the first time since headlining Coachella two years ago, and this time it is theatres, two nights at a time.

The songs meant for the follow-up to Hail to the Thief had their first proper run-out over two nights, and the second brought one more of them to the full band.

The night moves to the end of August.

Yorke has made nine songs with Nigel Godrich away from the band, and says the others gave the record their blessing.

Much of what the band are writing for their next record has still not been heard live, and America gets the next batch.

Less than three weeks after Yorke announced it, the whole record is going round online, well before it reaches the shops.

Yorke ties his solo record to his anger at the government, and says Radiohead might put out new music before any album is finished.

Yorke has signed his own album for one record only, and says the band have not yet decided whether the next Radiohead album goes the same way.

Bonnaroo was the one stop on the band's North American run to get a single night, and it got the longest show of their year so far.

Yorke also tells the Observer why Radiohead stopped in 2004, why The Eraser did not go to EMI, and that the band's seventh album still has no producer.

Thom Yorke heard who had been in the crowd only two days later, and he suspects the crew kept it from him on purpose.

Out of contract since their EMI deal ended, Radiohead have not yet settled how the next album will come out, and going it alone is on the table.

American television gets a song from Yorke's first solo album in the week the record came out, with no band behind him.

Yorke's solo album is up against Arctic Monkeys, Muse and Hot Chip for the £20,000 prize, and William Hill rate it as highly as any of them.

The reviews turn on how much of Radiohead is in the record, and the answers run from the band's equal to the band's leftovers.

In its first week in America, only a Now That's What I Call Music! compilation sold more than Yorke's record.

Two weeks after The Eraser came out, Yorke puts up a few broken lines that read like a bad end-of-term report, mark and all.

Yorke's case against the Prime Minister over Lebanon was that he speaks for neither the country nor his own cabinet.

One sets the band's songs on glockenspiel for small children; the other turns them into crunk and costs nothing.

A day before the Avenches show, Yorke finally sees the outsider art that shaped him as a student, and wants everyone else to go.

Yorke also worries that The Eraser will be taken as a sign that Radiohead are splitting up.

Free of their contract, the band found that nobody needing a record meant nobody finishing one.

Three nights in six days took Radiohead to Hungary for the first time, and none of the three sets had room for “Creep”.

The first single from The Eraser, and Yorke's first under his own name, has done best on the independent chart, where it goes in at number three.

Three and a half months after it was called off, the second Amsterdam night closes the band's year of new-song shows.

Radiohead's Bonnaroo show, six unreleased songs and all, is on film, and the band are in no hurry to let it out.

Thom Yorke gave the news on the night his solo record lost the Mercury Prize to Arctic Monkeys.

Both prizes reward the campaign behind his solo album, and one of them went to a free ringtone from it.

College students anywhere in the world have until March to make a video for a song from The Eraser.

The follow-up to Hail to the Thief is under way at last, and Yorke thinks it is starting to go somewhere.

Yorke wants tours to burn far less energy, but admits the rest of Radiohead do not feel as strongly and the shows will go on.

Paintings from three Radiohead album campaigns go on the walls of a Spanish gallery for just over three weeks, with a picture book alongside.

A weekend at the National Film Theatre gives the big screen to a decade of the band's promo films, with two unreleased songs in the programme.

With the band off for a week, Yorke spends his blog post on global warming and empty seas.

The public's pick is the first piece Greenwood wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra, a work for strings first heard in 2005.

Two songs fans have heard only at this year's shows will be out to download before Christmas, with Yorke and a piano and nobody else.

Yorke's album without the band puts him in a Grammy race with Arctic Monkeys and Gnarls Barkley in February.

The remixes sent in for Yorke's solo album are going up gradually, free to download, and each stays up only briefly.