Ed O'Brien on wanting to quit Radiohead when his daughter was born
Advice from Neil Finn and Johnny Marr, and his wife's wish that he stay, kept O'Brien in the band while his children were small.
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Advice from Neil Finn and Johnny Marr, and his wife's wish that he stay, kept O'Brien in the band while his children were small.
The writers of “The Air That I Breathe” already share the credit for “Creep”, and the publisher wants them named on Del Rey's song too.
The score has brought Greenwood his first major award nomination for any of his film scores, at the Golden Globes, with the Oscar nominations still to come.
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The live show Yorke tried out twice last year with Nigel Godrich and Tarik Barri gets a proper run, squeezed between Radiohead's South American and North American legs.
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The band's first concert of 2018, a festival headline slot in front of about 50,000, runs to 26 songs across two encores.
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In its twentieth-anniversary reissue, OK Computer has sold more copies through Britain's independent record shops over the past year than any other album.
Radiohead's first night in Brazil in nine years gave the song back the shape it had for years on stage, before the band finally recorded it on piano.
Tickets had been discounted a few weeks before, but Allianz Parque was well filled, if not sold out, for the band's first São Paulo show in nine years.
The crowd at Parque Simón Bolívar stood through a downpour and sang the last songs of the night back to the band.
It opened a 12-date European run, and the next night in Milan went on for two hours and closed with Radiohead's “Spectre”.
Greenwood's film music had the last word at the orchestra's informal concerts on the Wellington waterfront.
The film turns a Victorian vampire story into a coming-of-age romance.
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The first night of the band's North American summer leg found room for at least one song from every one of their nine studio albums.
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No recording of the piece has been released, so outside a concert hall the score is the only way to hear it.
On the same Brooklyn stage, Jonny Greenwood owns up that he wrote his part in “Paranoid Android” without knowing which notes he was playing.
Anyone who went all week heard four different shows, from “Spectre” on the Wednesday to “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” on Saturday 14 July.
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The electronic show Yorke has played around Europe this summer spends the month before Christmas crossing the US, from the East Coast to Las Vegas.
On a good night, O'Brien says, he can slow his pulse until a bar of music splits into 64 parts, the extra time great batsmen seem to have.
Two trailers have already run on Yorke's music for Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria; this time the music came from Yorke himself, a day before the film is first shown.
Yorke nearly ran from his first film score, he says, and borrowed only one thing from Goblin's music for Argento's original.
Yorke's score is a double album of 25 pieces, out on 26 October, and XL is playing it to fans in nine cities before then.
The pieces Thom Yorke has written for rag & bone's catwalk shows have been run together into the soundtrack of a short film.
Of the nights Yorke has stood in for Patti Smith with R.E.M., the one in a London church in 2004 is now on a record.
Radiohead's bass player turns book critic, and admires Palin's history of the ship lost with the Franklin expedition.
Talking up his Suspiria soundtrack on BBC Radio 6 Music, Yorke also says this week's Conservative conference has frightened him, and asks why people are not out in the streets over Brexit.
The band share the class of 2019 ballot with the Cure, Kraftwerk, Roxy Music and Janet Jackson.
In the same Venice round table, Yorke says Jonny Greenwood's advice for his first film score was to write from the screenplay, not to the picture.
The wordless piece backs the push for an ocean sanctuary that governments will weigh in Tasmania next week.
Yorke says more than a year of work on Suspiria, his first full film score, turned up an album he had not set out to make.
Days before the Suspiria score comes out, Yorke has given an account of the solo album he means to follow it with.
After “Suspirium” in September, a track a week through October has given fans five pieces of the score before the album.
Oxford's last independent music venue needs £80,000 by 3 December to widen a fire escape that has cut its crowds to 60, or it shuts.
Two days after the soundtrack came out, BBC Radio 6 Music gave Yorke's first film score a session, an interview and an hour of his favourite records.
Yorke's first film score has had a warm welcome from the critics, and the song they keep picking out is “Unmade”.
Yorke wrote much of his first film score from the script alone, and the film's dance only gave way when he stopped trying to follow it.
Yorke also played “Everything In Its Right Place” on his own for BBC Radio 1, a week after taking his Suspiria music to 6 Music.
On French radio, Yorke explains how the Suspiria score breaks one of music's rules on purpose, to unsettle whoever is listening.
Yorke sets one of his Suspiria pieces among records by Stockhausen, Aphex Twin and Faust.
Two nights after its first outing in Detroit, the In Rainbows song opened the first encore again in Chicago.
Stations across America are set to air the 34-minute session and its interview over the following days.
Halfway through his American tour, Yorke adds a date for next summer, with Nigel Godrich and Tarik Barri.
Yorke goes through the score piece by piece, from the nine minutes of breathing synth he sent the director to the first waltz he has written.
Eleven years on, the LP ends on “De-Tuned Quartet”, a piece the 2007 album left off.
Passed over in their first year of eligibility, the band are in at their second nomination, one of seven acts chosen from a ballot of 15.
A piano waltz from Yorke's first film score is one of the last 15 songs in the running for five Oscar nominations.
Both of Yorke's nights at the Orpheum turned into a near-reunion of Atoms for Peace, with two of the band walking on in the first encore.
The carol came on the last night of his North American tour, and a fan's film of it is out in time for Christmas.
The unreleased songs heard at Yorke's solo shows this year are the next record, and he means to finish it before he takes on anything else.
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