Pulp and Radiohead are set to team up and form an unlikely supergroup in the forthcoming Harry Potter movie.

Enigmatic Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker will front a magical band called 'Weird Sisters' in 'Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire' - the fourth film in the wizard series.

He will be backed by Radiohead drummer Phil Selway and guitarist Jonny Greenwood in the movie, which stars huge indie music fan Daniel Radcliffe in the lead role. All three have been given acting credits in the movie.

The roles were originally intended for Scottish art-rockers Franz Ferdinand, but they had to turn down the part because of touring commitments.

Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood -- he of the manic, talking guitar -- is standing in the lobby as I arrive at the trendy San Francisco hotel where the band is staying. Alas, Jonny isn't waiting for me, and Ed O'Brien, Radiohead's other able guitarist and my intended interview subject, is still asleep. Somewhere between San Francisco and Capitol's offices in New York, wires were crossed, and I got there an hour earlier than expected. "He's just going to take a shower and will be right down," their publicist apologizes.

Unexpected wakeup calls aside, things are looking good for Radiohead. Their third LP, OK Computer, debuted at number 21 in the US and easily reached the top of the charts in their native Britain. O'Brien and Jonny Greenwood, together with Jonny's brother Colin on bass, Phil Selway behind the drums and the owner of the breathtakingly lovely vocal contortions -- singer/guitarist Thom Yorke -- are Radiohead. The group (who don't consider themselves part of the "Britpop" movement), has been playing sold-out shows across America, performing at venues with names including words like Theatre, Ballroom and Arena: certainly a step up from the club tours of the not-too-distant past.

This band has been busy this last year: recording, touring, promoting, playing for Tibetan Freedom, and getting favorable attention from the press and an ever-increasing legion of fans. Even before the July first stateside release of the album, the band was getting the kind of attention usually reserved for music legends, fashion designers, and boxers. Face it: when you can count Madonna, Marilyn Manson, Sheryl Crow and members of U2, REM, Oasis and Blur among your fans, you're either doing something right or something revolutionary... or, in the case of Radiohead, very probably both.

Radiohead have commenced the recording sessions for the follow up to their last album 2003’s ‘Hail To The Thief’ and have also started up an online diary letting fans know how work is progressing.

As previously reported the band have started work on their new album at an undisclosed studio (see Radiohead Return To The Studio). And now they have started up a new diary in the Dead Air Space page at the official Radiohead website.

Guitarist Ed O’Brien did a similar thing during the recording sessions for their ‘OK Computer’ album back in 1999.

As well as new picture of the band recording all the members seem to be posting messages to let fans know how the work is going. According to the site, new songs include ‘Piggsee’ (or ‘Pigs Ear’) and ‘Mornin' M'lud’, which appeared in an early version as ‘Morning Mr Magpie’ on Radiohead's Christmas webcast in December 2002.

“here we go,” A message from O’Brien reads, “hello good people its sunday august 21 2005 and we're recording....... let me fill you in a little. so apart from a 3 and a half week tour to the other side of the world in april of 2004 the rest of that year was a dormant one for us......... we needed a break ....... the end of another 3 album cycle...... they're not planned like that but thats how it seems to be. we needed to be at home with our families ....... lots of babies too.

still no conntract
we would at least expect to get a few poultry pennies
if downloaded rather than nothing at all

sorry im being told to be quiet

what do i know.

Radiohead will enter a "proper studio" in an unnamed city today (Aug. 18) to continue work on its seventh studio album, according to a post from frontman Thom Yorke at the "Dead Air Space" section of the group's official Web site. No release date has yet been penciled in for the set.

Radiohead has been recording on and off at its own studio since early 2004, but it is unknown how much time has been devoted specifically to the as-yet-untitled new project. "We don't take time off very well," guitarist Jonny Greenwood previously told Billboard.com. We're enjoying it still, so why just go home and do nothing?

A representative from the band's Oxford, England-based management firm Courtyard Management tells Billboard.com that for the current sessions, Radiohead is putting some ideas together" to "see where they want to go with the next step musically.

The band is also moving forward without label representation, having fulfilled its recording contract with EMI with the 2003 release of "Hail to the Thief." That album debuted at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 932,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

"we have no record conntract.
as such.
any offers?..what we would like is th e old EMI back again, the nice genteel arms manufacturers who treated music a nice side project who werent to bothered about the shareholders. ah well
not much chance of that....."

good day everybody!

as you may or may not have noticed we've added something new to www.radiohead.com

dead air space is an attempt to do something that every man and his dog, literally, have been doing on the internet for the last 5 years.

itll be used by all the members of radiohead to put up words + pictures and things when they have something to say. and also when they dont.

its an attempt to make the site slightly more in focus as everything else starts coming into focus, so to speak.

itll be updated like this rest of the site - sporadically with no guarantees or refunds.

i think that is about it... we hope it provides some interest for some of you at some point.

This is Radiohead’s fifth album and one that many would argue is not their best work.

It’s far less accessible than ‘OK Computer’ and is, predictably, a million miles away from ‘The Bends’ and ‘Pablo Honey’. ‘Kid A’ was recorded at the same time as ‘Amnesiac’, but released a year later and the two albums see the band wondering off into the realms of the avant-garde and obscurity. Some would say that they had in fact wondered just a little too far off the beaten track and up their own arses.

So why is ‘Kid A’ a student essential? I must say I used to be leaning towards the persuasion of them being up their own arses, but I feel I may have been a little misguided. Now, for some reason I just keep coming back to this album, I can’t keep myself away from it. It’s like a magnetic force pulling me in and begging me to listen, and with each listen the force just gets stronger and stronger. ‘Kid A’ encapsulates the term "a grower".

Hello. This is an email to let you know that I'm doing another series of prints, this time for Banksy's site, www.picturesonwalls.com.

You've probably heard of Banksy; he's done loads of graffiti all over the world. He gave some monkeys in a zoo pieces of cardboard with 'I'm a celebrity - get me out of here' written on them.

Anyway, his site features prints from loads of people, such as 3D, Jamie Hewlett, David Shrigley, and one of my favourite artists ever, Gee Vaucher.

So I'm pretty pleased to be associated with the site, and I'm doing some different work to that on my own site, www.slowlydownward.com.

To start with there are four new prints, but I'm planning to add another six or so over the summer. So yes, this is an announcement; go to www.picturesonwalls.com. And www.slowlydownward.com. And www.radiohead.com.

Stanley Donwood

Radiohead, The Manic Street Preachers, Razorlight, Bloc Party and Damon Albarn's Gorillaz have all signed up to be a part of War Child’s tenth anniversary album release, a decade on from the original ‘Help’ compilation album.

Famously recorded on a Monday and in the shops by the following Saturday, the original ‘Help’ was released almost ten years ago on September 9 1995 and went straight to number one after just a single day's sales.

The new project, entitled ‘Help: A Day In The Life’, will feature returning contributions from Radiohead, Damon Albarn (in his Gorillaz guise) and the Manic Street Preachers, while the UK’s new school of indie are represented by the The Zutons, Razorlight, The Coral, Mylo and Elbow amongst others.

20 acts will record tracks for the record with Xfm favourites The Magic Numbers, Maximo Park, Bloc Party and Hard-Fi also signed up for the project. Ex-Stone Roses axe-man John Squire has agreed to design a cover. The only confirmed tracks so far are from the Manic Street Preachers who have announced their song is called ‘Leviathan’, while Elbow will record the track 'Snowball' for inclusion.

The album will once again raise funds to help children in war-torn regions including Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and The Democratic Republic of The Congo. It will be available from the War Child website and other sites from September 9. A CD release will follow in the weeks to follow.