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Observer interview with Thom Yorke online
Is there a future for Radiohead - or for the planet? When your fans are counted in the millions, and include leading politicians of every hue, the pressures can tell. In his most personal interview ever, Thom Yorke talks to Craig McLean about how the band nearly split, their carbon imprint, the death of David Kelly - and his first solo album: Observer.
Why Thom declined the meeting with Tony Blair:
'[Blair's advisers] wanted pre-meetings. They wanted to know that I was onside. Also, I was being manoeuvred into a position where if I said the wrong thing post-the meeting, Friends of the Earth would lose their access. Which normally would be called blackmail.' Yorke flashed a humour-free smile.
Why Thom dedided to do The Eraser:
In 2004 being Radiohead 'was getting boring and it just got a bit weird and self-perpetuating... It felt like everyone was under obligation to do it rather than because we wanted to do it. And one of the things I had wanted to do for ages was get stuck into a bunch of things that I had been mucking around with that didn't fit into the Radiohead zone.'
He explained that The Eraser was 'an accumulation of really sketchy ideas that were going around since I learnt how to use the laptop properly.' It's an insidious collection of skittery beats and pattery rhythms and minimal post-rockisms recorded with regular Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich in the band's studio in Oxfordshire, in Yorke's second home 'by the sea', and in Godrich's studio in London's Covent Garden.
'It didn't feel right to do it with EMI. It was done with the doors shut. As Nigel said, without anybody watching. And it was done in a different context so it felt like it should be put out in a different context. Which is not saying that we won't put things out through EMI or whatever. I just don't personally feel that we owe anybody anything. I think that's a mistake.
On Radiohead's seventh album
'Will we re-sign to EMI?' he mused. 'I don't know. I don't think we'd sign sign to anybody. Give someone a record when it's done if we feel that they can do it justice. That's it.'
Yorke admitted he was frustrated at the length of time Radiohead were taking to record their seventh album. They haven't even settled on a producer yet. They'd started producing themselves, had done some sessions with Mark 'Spike' Stent, and had been speaking to Nigel Godrich and 'some other people'. They had played 11 new songs on the tour, plus their contribution to the latest War Child album 'I Want None of It'.
'It seems crazy to have this all [new material] sitting around... It's to varying degrees finished, [and] to just have to wait for another six months, eight months, seems nuts.'
Is the song 'Harrowdown Hill' really about the suicide of weapons inspector and government scientist Dr David Kelly?
'It is,' says Yorke with some reluctance. 'But I've got this thing where I don't want to make a big deal out of that because I'm very sensitive to the idea of digging up anything that the Kelly family...'
'I don't really think it's appropriate for me to say, "Yes, it's about that",' he continues, 'because I'm sure they're still grieving over his death.'
But Harrowdown Hill is the name of the Oxfordshire woods where Kelly's body was found in July 2003. I remind Yorke of the lyrics: 'You will be dispensed with when you've become inconvenient... up on Harrowdown Hill... that's where I'm lying down... did I fall or was I pushed...'. That's quite direct stuff.
'It's the most angry song I've ever written in my life,' he nods grimly. 'I'm not gonna get into the background to it, the way I see it... And it's not for me or for any of us to dig any of this up. So it's a bit of an uncomfortable thing.'
Do you have sympathy for Chris Martin: very hand-on-his heart active in the Make Trade Fair campaign but necessarily lives a bit of a Hollywood lifestyle, and drives a big car?
'I don't drive a big car, I'll give you that. Um.' A pause. 'No one's going to come out of this dirt-free; I don't come out of it dirt-free. It's basically [about] having to make a decision whether to do nothing or try to engage with it in some way, knowing that it's flawed. It's convenient to project that back on to someone personally and say they're a hypocrite. It's a lot easier to do that than actually do anything else. And yeah, that stresses me out, because I am a hypocrite. As we all are.'
Posted by adriaan at June 18, 2006 02:25 PM
PadKidA:
Petite news sur telerama.fr :
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Il est des admirateurs dont Thom Yorke se passerait bien. Alors que l'anxieuse tête pensante de Radiohead sort un album solo (The Eraser), il reste fidèle à son groupe et à ses idées : militant écolo acharné, Yorke est aussi un ferme opposant à la guerre en Irak. C'est dire si ça le rend malheureux de savoir que Dave Cameron, leader du parti conservateur, est un de ses fans les plus fervents. Pire, Tony Blair cherche désespérément à s'afficher avec lui. Et ce n'est guère mieux en Amérique. Lors d'une récente prestation à New York de Radiohead, la fille de George Bush était dans la salle. Le titre du dernier album du groupe, Hail to The Thief (Salut à l'escroc) visait pourtant le président des Etats-Unis. Dur, dur, d'avoir le sentiment de pisser dans un violon ◆ H.C.
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Ectorleressor:
Bon beh drôle de news...
--- Citer ---Radiohead has hinted that this may be their last album they ever release. Check out what they had to say below:
Radiohead Leave Interesting MessageWhat goes up.....must come down. So it's been fun chatting with some of you lovely people and we've uncovered some great talent in smash & grab. There is a secret We have yet to tell. Also, keep supporting the good bands on this thing. it's only your support that gives these guys the chance we had. Thom says thanks for all of the 'Eraser' comments. Thanks to Rik for Jons site. The new material will 'most likely' come out as an album, but we are still farting about with the idea of multiple singles, EP's or online only!...(mmm!...that could prove problematic re: new artwork...which is NICE!) If you use the network here effectively, there are people who can get your messages to us. We'll be back for the third time at some point soon, but time is a killer right now with shows and recording sessions etc...
TALKING WITH YOU GUYS THIS CLOSELY HAS BEEN REFRESHING!
The secret?.......................
This may be our last album......but I never told you that!
If you must take it at all....take it easy
radiohead
bye
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C'est surhttp://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=147955
Effet d'annonce? ou intox...ou vrai communiqué...?
nicolas:
--- Citation de: "Ectorleressor" ---Bon beh drôle de news...
--- Citer ---Radiohead has hinted that this may be their last album they ever release. Check out what they had to say below:
Radiohead Leave Interesting MessageWhat goes up.....must come down. So it's been fun chatting with some of you lovely people and we've uncovered some great talent in smash & grab. There is a secret We have yet to tell. Also, keep supporting the good bands on this thing. it's only your support that gives these guys the chance we had. Thom says thanks for all of the 'Eraser' comments. Thanks to Rik for Jons site. The new material will 'most likely' come out as an album, but we are still farting about with the idea of multiple singles, EP's or online only!...(mmm!...that could prove problematic re: new artwork...which is NICE!) If you use the network here effectively, there are people who can get your messages to us. We'll be back for the third time at some point soon, but time is a killer right now with shows and recording sessions etc...
TALKING WITH YOU GUYS THIS CLOSELY HAS BEEN REFRESHING!
The secret?.......................
This may be our last album......but I never told you that!
If you must take it at all....take it easy
radiohead
bye
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C'est surhttp://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=147955
Effet d'annonce? ou intox...ou vrai communiqué...?
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la source est pas terrible (myspace/radiohead)
sinon j'aime bien l'humour sur ce forum :
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: Originally Posted by WarpSpeedChewy
: I hope not. They still need to make a album that sounds more like
: The Bends or OK Computer rather than another Kid A experiment
: album.
..and i need to take my fist out of your mom's vagina, but i'm in no hurry.
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Ectorleressor:
héhé!
Beh moi aussi je trouve ça louche mais comme ça été relayé par un site qui jusqu'à present verifie plutôt ses infos -->http://www.visual-music.org/news.htm
je me dis que peut-être bon... :snif:
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