Song · On a Friday / pre-Pablo Honey (1986–92)
Rattlesnake in the Big City
Fan archives tie it to “Rattlesnake”, the band's loop song of 1990, and say it may have grown out of it.
1990–91
on a friday
It was the last of the 13 titles NME printed in August 2002, when an album's worth of recordings by On a Friday, as Radiohead were first called, thought to be from sessions at Courtyard Studio near Oxford around 1991, went round online. NME had heard some of them and could not vouch for them all. Fan archives take it to be related to, or grown out of, “Rattlesnake”, the loop song from the band's 1990 Shindig tape.
the video
A recording of a song they never released.· AllRadioheadwatch on youtube →
sources2
- The site's news story “Thirteen On a Friday recordings turn up online”, 20 August 2002, from NME.com, for the leak, the list and the Courtyard sessions.
- The site's own catalogue note, based on fan archives, for the link to “Rattlesnake”.