2007

After a month's break the sessions are running again, and the band hope to have the record out before the end of the year.

The retailer had the record coming out on EMI, the label whose contract with the band ran out with their last album.

Gallagher used a Guardian interview to tell Radiohead that the crowds will always want “Creep”; Yorke's answer is about respect.

Jonny Greenwood's tour of the Trojan archive leans to 1970s roots, dub and Lee Perry, and leaves out the label's best-known crossover names.

Three songs from the duo's Big Ask benefit at KOKO, the night new songs were first heard, come free with this Sunday's Observer.

Out of contract since 2003 and still recording, Radiohead are not signing to the coffee chain's new label, or to anyone else, their managers say.

Footage of the band at work, posted while the album after Hail to the Thief still has no release date, has the music press guessing at new songs.

British fans who missed the 2004 import can now buy the disc at home, and American fans can from May.

After a quiet spell on the band's blog, word from the studio on the follow-up to Hail to the Thief is that it is close to finished.

Stephen Petronio's new piece for the company is danced from start to finish to Radiohead's records, from OK Computer to the My Iron Lung EP.

Two days after Ed O'Brien said the album was nearly done, the producer has let a little of it out of the studio, chopped into pieces.

Yorke takes the vocal on one track of the German duo's follow-up to Hello Mum, out in America in September.

If the account is right, the follow-up to Hail to the Thief is down to its last stage in the studio, still with no title or release date.

His clip asks his MP to hold Gordon Brown to the promise of a law that cuts carbon emissions fast.

The book of Radiohead's sleeve art that the pair first printed for their Barcelona exhibition last year is going into ordinary bookshops.

Jonny's string piece crosses the Atlantic in January, booked by a New York series that puts classical music and bands on the same bills.

The new record is mastered but has no label, and the band's camp says it will not be out before the new year.

A small arts charity near Abingdon says its young pupils helped make one track on the next Radiohead album.

Radiohead have no record deal and, Greenwood says, no plan yet for how the new record will come out.

Anyone, anywhere, can now download the band's EMI records without copy protection, but the only way in is the whole album or the whole single.

Two weeks after Jonny Greenwood said the new album was finished, the band are talking to fans in a symbol alphabet.

The band had disowned radioheadlp7.com the day before, calling the page that promised news of their seventh album a hoax.

With no record company behind them, Radiohead will sell their first album in four years straight from their own site, to everyone at the same moment.

The download goes out with no label behind it, but getting a CD into the shops still takes a record company.

Talking on the morning In Rainbows went on sale, Jonny says he is cutting down on flying because of carbon emissions.

The band will not say how many people have ordered In Rainbows or what they paid.

By the end of the album's first week the verdicts were almost all strong, with only a few doubters.

A week in, the only sales claims for the pay-what-you-want download rest on an unnamed source.

The download of In Rainbows went out with no sleeve, though one was finished.

The pay-what-you-want album now has a label for its CD.

Every album the band made for EMI, from Pablo Honey to Hail to the Thief, is being gathered up by their old label for release on 10 December.

Stephen Troussé rates it the band's most conventionally built album since OK Computer.

Outside figures on the pay-what-you-want download suggest that the minority who paid gave the band far more a copy than they need to break even.

Buyers who held out for a disc get one at the end of the year, almost three months after the download.

The band's first webcast in five years, made to celebrate a finished album, brings the first live “Reckoner” and covers of The Smiths, New Order and Björk.

Seven years after he sang with PJ Harvey, Yorke now keeps to his own songs and Radiohead's, by McCartney's account.

Radiohead accept the advert was a genuine error, though some fans already saw EMI's box as a rival to the band's.

American fans who want In Rainbows on a disc rather than a download can buy it in the first days of 2008, from a label the band set up for it.

Speaking on the day the download came out, Jonny Greenwood said that beyond a post on the band's blog the release was run by a handful of people at the band's merchandise company.

The idea of a download came from the band's management, Yorke says.

Other musicians are lining up against the honesty box, and two of them say only a band that has already made its money could afford to give an album away.

Back with Radiohead, Yorke found there were other people to work with again.

Yorke, who campaigns with Friends of the Earth, wants a law that would make everyone in Britain act on the climate.

Nigel Godrich's sessions, so far only watchable online, get a weekly television run.

Two months of festivals and city nights take the band from Dublin to Berlin.

Selling the download only from the band's website, outside the charts, has cost the record any chance of British Album of the Year next year.

The first single from In Rainbows comes backed with Thom Yorke's own live versions of three songs, taped for Nigel Godrich's From The Basement.

The clip for the next single from In Rainbows is the work of Adam Buxton and Garth Jennings, who made it for last month's Thumbs Down webcast.

The eight songs meant only for discbox buyers are on the file-sharing sites while the boxes are still on their way to buyers.

The first fixed British and Irish dates of 2008 are all outdoors.

The festival show that French television aired in 2004 can be heard in full, for a while and at no extra cost, by anyone who buys the back-catalogue box.

Two months after buyers were first left to name their price, the album moves to ordinary shops at the end of the year.

The whole European summer of 2008 now has venues, and the band's website is selling it first.

The band who have kept every album off Apple's store, rather than see it broken into single tracks, are now negotiating to put the new one there.

Every album since Kid A had leaked before its release.

Answering readers' questions, the band describe the split with EMI as a deal they had hoped to do, which the label's new private equity owners would not make.

The free download, due in January, puts Too Short and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien on Radiohead's songs.

Radiohead's European summer now opens with two nights in Dublin instead of one.

Three vinyl singles, one a week from late January, hand the songs on Yorke's 2006 solo record to Modeselektor, The Bug, Surgeon and others.

The music for Paul Thomas Anderson's new film is in the shops before the film reaches a single cinema.

The band mean to keep touring, and they are suggesting that the people who come to the shows share cars and take the bus.

What broke the talks, on the band's account, was who decides how the six albums they made for EMI are used from now on.