Song · Radiohead
Ed's Scary Song
Ed O'Brien takes the lead vocal on this one, a jam broadcast from the band's studio during the Kid A sessions.
10 feb 2000
the second webcast
On 10 February 2000, while Kid A was being made, the band broadcast from their own studio for the second time. An early “There There” went out, then a techno piece of Jonny Greenwood's, then this. Ed O'Brien took the lead vocal, and the 2003 version of this site has him reading out phrases he had pulled from a hat.
It kept a transcript of the words. It ends with the band thanking everyone, telling them to drive home carefully and promising to see them in their lounge in a few weeks.
This site filed it in 2003 as a jam rather than a song, and it was never released.
the video
Ed's Scary Song/Webcast Version.· Wise Samwatch on youtube →
sources2
- This site's own preserved 2003 lyrics pages, for the hat, the words and the sign-off.
- The site's webcast notes, for the running order of the second webcast and the Kid A sessions.