Shoebox · a tribute
For the other fan sites
To the Radiohead fan sites that grew up beside this one, and to everyone who kept them going for the love of the band.
Before streaming and social media, these were the places you went. They typed out the lyrics, traded the tapes, posted the setlists and kept going through the long gaps between records. Treefingers was one of them in 2003, with a links page full of the sites below. This page is its thank-you.
Still going
Citizen Insanecitizeninsane.euTwenty years of taking every Radiohead release apart, session by session and credit by credit, with more care than any official source. If a fact about a Radiohead recording is settled anywhere, it is settled here.
Nosuch Librarynosuchlibrary.comThe music, the videos, the live shows and the artwork, filed album by album by one of the people who run the ET CETERA forum, below. The front door asks whether you can find what you want in your local library. Here you usually can.
The King of Gearthekingofgear.comEvery guitar, pedal, amp and tuning, member by member, patiently kept up to date through the 2025 tour and the solo shows. Anyone who has tried to get Jonny’s sound out of a practice amp owes it something.
ET CETERAetceteraforum.comWhen At Ease’s board went dark, a few fans rebuilt the conversation from scratch, laid out like the old one, down to a room for just chatting. It is busy every hour, which is the best thing you can say about a forum.
Air-Radioheadair-radiohead.comFrench fans’ home since 2001, and still full of voices: the forum is busy with what the band might do next. When the Hail to the Thief cover appeared in April 2003, it posted it with a merci to At Ease, where it had been seen first. That was how this web worked: pass the news on, say thank you.
58hours58hours.comThe gig map. Before setlist.fm, this is where most fans went to see what was played, night by night and city by city. It went quiet for years and is back, being rebuilt, with the 2025 European tour already in.Still standing, quietly
Nothing new on these for a while. They all still answer, and what is already there is worth the visit.
At Easeateaseweb.comFor twenty years the page most of us opened first. At its busiest, around twenty thousand people a day came to Adriaan Pels’s site to see what the band had done overnight. The board went in August 2024; the news came back in 2025, then went quiet. A generation of fans grew up on it.
Green Plasticgreenplastic.infoJonathan Percy started it on his birthday in 1997, because he could not find Radiohead lyrics anywhere online, and built it into the biggest US fan site there was. Jonathan stopped keeping it up around 2012 or 2013, by his own account, and the last post, in December 2019, says why. The archive stays up on purpose, for anyone who comes looking.
Through The Broken Mirrorthomthomthom.comJapan’s Radiohead site since 1999. In 2003 it walked fans abroad through buying tickets for Osaka and Tokyo, with an English order form for anyone with “a lot of problems with Japanese”. It turned twenty in 2019 and rests in cold storage now, while its keeper organises Radiohead listening nights, screenings and exhibitions in Japan instead.
Pulk/Pullpulk-pull.org“An on-going investigation of Radiohead’s music and art”, and a thoughtful one. In 2006 it traced the cover of The Eraser to Stanley Donwood’s linocut Cnut, and Cnut to King Canute holding back the tide.
Maquiladoramusicfanclubs.org/radioheadNamed after the b-side and kept exactly as it was in 2000, red front door and all, like a room nobody has had the heart to clear. Its source code still says it was made with “Pencil and Eraser”.The band’s own
Not fan-made, but where a lot of us met.
radiohead.comradiohead.comRedrawn for every record, sometimes for no reason at all, and every old version is still on the band’s server, numbered. The best-kept band website on the internet.
radiohead.com, the old picturesarchive.org/details/radiohead-com-jpeg-imagesEvery picture Stephen Cole could pull out of the Wayback Machine’s copies of the band’s site, from the first version on. The same Stephen Cole whose scanned clippings much of this site’s early news was written from. Thank you, Stephen.
W.A.S.T.E. Centralwastecentral.ning.comThe semi-official community. It still loads, but most of its rooms no longer open.no captureThe official message boardmsgboard.radiohead.comFor years the band let the fans talk to each other under their own roof. The address no longer answers.
In memory
the 2003 links page
This button sat at the top of it. Here is every site on that page that has gone dark, in its order, each opening what the Internet Archive kept of it around then.
Sail To The Moonsailtothemoon.com02.comFrench and English, with whole concerts as MP3s, an FTP and a karaoke page. In June 2003 it was inviting everyone to the next Kid A tribute night, in a bar in Montreal, five dollars at the door.
Radiohead Fan Clubradioheadfanclub.comFree to join, and every member got a Radiohead fan card and a weekly email of tour dates and setlists. Treefingers gives its members fan cards now; the Radiohead Fan Club had the idea first.
Climbing Up the Wallsclimbingupthewalls.comOne of the sites this one swapped link buttons with. On 9 June 2003 it sent everyone to the band’s redrawn site for the new record: “Run, don’t walk.”
Meeting People Is Easymeetingpeopleiseasy.deThe German one, named for the tour film, with a forum, a mailing list and Radiohead e-cards to send. Proof that the fandom never spoke only English.
Kid A: Amnesiac Studioradiohead.com.hk“An information centre for Hong Kong fans”, with a gigography, the blips and a message board of its own, kept from 2000 to 2003.
More Productiveradiohead.orgA fan site at radiohead.org, named after two words of Fitter Happier. The address belongs to the band now and opens radiohead.com.
Follow Me Aroundfollowmearound.comNews and community, named after a song Radiohead had never released. The song came out in 2021, on Kid A Mnesia. The site was gone by then, which seems unfair.
Fitter Happierfitterhappier.orgNews and lyrics, named for the voice on OK Computer, with a forum called Sulk where the new record was being argued about the week it came out.
Liquidcatliquidcat.comDale’s site, “feed me to the lions”: news, tabs, a forum and the 2002 tour’s bootlegs, with a door out to alt.music.radiohead, the newsgroup that came before all of this.
Spinning Platesspinning-plates.comWhere you went for a sleeve for your concert recording, sorted so you could find the right night fast, with photographs of the band taken by the people who ran it.
Injektilo FTPinjektilo-ftp.comThe FTP server that kept the live recordings moving. In April 2003 it came back “with a much larger hard drive”, which is the whole story of tape trading in six words.
The Panic Officedisconnect.net/thepanicofficeA loving catalogue of every Radiohead video, hand-coded from 1998, with a dry sense of humour: when Kid A came out with no official videos at all, it noted they “should just be pouring in”.
Polyethylenegeocities.com/manixspA GeoCities site with its own mailing group and downloads of a Radiohead session for Radio 1. The front door asked you to install two fonts before going in.
Kineticwezl.org/rheadIts featured download was an early Paranoid Android, live in Boston in August 1996. The updates stop in July 2001, under a notice asking for two tickets to Madison Square Garden.
The Daily Newsdanpryce.com/thedailyDan Pryce’s news page, last touched in August 2001 with changes to the Toronto show.
Revolving Doorsrevolvingdoors.tripod.comA Chilean site that outgrew Tripod and moved to radiohead.cl. The old address kept one line, in Spanish: please update your bookmarks.
Soul Immersioncokebabie.tripod.comStarted as a hobby and rewritten, in its own words, as “the ultimate story” of the five, written for “you, the ultimate fan”.
The NoSuch Librarymembers.tripod.com/nosuchlibraryA Tripod page with the same name as today’s Nosuch Library, near the top of this page. Little of it survives beyond the front door.no picture yetThe National Anthemcolingreenwood.cjb.netA tribute to Colin Greenwood, on Angelfire. The bass player had a fan site of his own twenty years before he had a book of his own.
Release Mereleaseme.5u.comNews, lyrics with notes on the songs, tabs and downloads, on free hosting with the host’s adverts across the top, like half the web then.
Rain Down Industriesraindownindustries.comMelatoni and Fitter Hans ran it from 1999, with a streaming radio station of its own and a page where you could review the albums yourself.
Radiohead Tabsradioheadtabs.comTabs, Guitar Pro files, MIDIs and sheet music, song by song, for everyone who learned Creep in a bedroom.
What Amnesiac?geocities.com/radioheadsongsThe songs as RealPlayer files, low quality on purpose “so it is easy to load” on a modem.
No Data - Lost Childrengeocities.com/radioheadisationA GeoCities site with an intro movie and a choice at the door: “patience or onward”.
Antibiosisxenocryst.net/antibiosisIts front page was a wall of digits, which in the Kid A years counted as a design decision.
Simply Radioheadradiohead.web1000.comOne fan’s pages, last updated in March 2001 after hearing the new songs early: “gonna be even better than Kid A”.
Televisionfoottelevisionfoot.co.ukA British site that opened on the plainest line of the whole list: “This is a Radiohead website.”
Let Downletdownweb.comNews, a journal, a message board and the W.A.S.T.E. game, a labyrinth puzzle with Daedalus somewhere in it. A Radiohead puzzle game, long before this site had one.no captureThe rest of the 2003 pagebear hunt · little row boat · just · minotaur · shop radiohead · a broken lullSix more names from the list. The Internet Archive kept nothing of them worth opening: a host’s advert, a parked domain, or no copy at all.
And the ones that came before it and after it.
Mortigi Tempomortigitempo.comGreen Plastic’s message board, the other big room beside At Ease’s. The name is Esperanto for killing time, which is what everyone was there to do.no picture yetinjektiloinjektilo.comOne of the first places live recordings were shared, by FTP, when one show took a whole night to come down the phone line. The site folded into Green Plastic around 1999; Injektilo FTP, above, carried the name on.no captureThe mid-1990s hubsplanet telex · wasteland · fade out · tony’s site · liftPlanet Telex, Wasteland, FADE OUT, Tony’s site and Lift: the first wave, built when there was almost nothing else to read. All gone, except Lift, which survives as a facsimile in Green Plastic’s cold storage.
The sites still going have plainer entries on the links page, beside the archives and forums.