Thom Yorke posts a Vapour Brothers studio film on Dead Air Space

Thom Yorke posted a link on Dead Air Space, the band's blog, on Monday 9 April to a short film by the Vapour Brothers, a collage of studio footage and sound. He headed the post “a wee treap doon memori lane”, mock-Scots for a wee trip down memory lane, and signed the film off as courtesay ov those genius bruvers vapour³. His note puts it down to listening to the same thing over and over again³ until there is nothing for it but to do something else.

The Vapour Brothers are Chris and Tim Bran, who have filmed Radiohead for years. They made the short promo clips for Kid A in 2000 and a video for “I Might Be Wrong” in 2001, and their site lists the band's webcasts among their work.

NME and SPIN, reporting the film the next day, described the band jamming in the studio, Yorke dancing as he DJs at a pair of turntables, Jonny Greenwood at instruments SPIN could not name and Ed O'Brien swaying with a guitar. Both suspected some of the music was new material from the album the band are making, their first since Hail to the Thief in 2003. Efe Eme, a Spanish site, called the film fragmentary and confusing, with a motorway and the San Fermin bull-running in Pamplona cut in among the studio shots.