Radiohead’s sixth album “Hail to the Thief” came out in June 2003. Yorke has said that the albums lyrics were inspired by “the general sense of ignorance and intolerance and fear and just plain dumbness” that followed the election of George W. Bush and the whole war on terror thing…
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In the summer of 2002 Radiohead went on tour in Portugal and Spain, playing some new stuff for the first time. When it came to making their next album they decided they wanted to explore that fine line between human made music and machine made music, and they wanted to…
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Their fifth album, Amnesiac came out in May 2001. It was a collection of extra tracks that had been left off Kid A – tracks that included the song Life in a Glasshouse , which featured the Humphrey Lyttleton Band – another new diversion. Radiohead would have you know that…
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Kid A picked up a Grammy for Best Alternative Album in early 2001 and got a nod for Album of the Year too. People in the music scene were just torn – some critics absolutely loved it and others just gave it up as a bit of a commercial suicide…
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Radioheads fourth album Kid A came out in October 2000 – a whole new direction from OK Computers laid back vibe. This time round theyd opted for a minimalist style , with loads of different instrumentation to play with . They had the Ondes Martenot – a weird electronic keyboard…
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With the massive success of ok computer radiohead decided to get a barn in oxfordshire and turned it into their own recording studio. They made a start on their next album with Godrich back in early 1999 and spent some time in studios in Paris, copenhagen & gloucester before their…
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Round the same time Airbag / How Am I Driving? – an EP putting together “Airbag” and all the OK Computer B-sides – got nominated for a Grammy in the Alternative Music Performance category . They also played a Paris Amnesty International gig and the Tibetan Freedom Concert in the…
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Radiohead released their third album, OK Computer, in May of 1997, and it was a turning point in the band’s evolution. They started pushing the boundaries with their song structures and incorporating ambient, electronic & avant garde influences – which Rolling Stone at the time called a “stunning art-rock tour…
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After OK Computer Radiohead embarked on a year-long world tour, that included their very first headlining performance at Glastonbury back in 1997. Despite all the technical hitches that came perilously close to causing Yorke to bail on stage, the performance was met with widespread acclaim and really cemented Radiohead as…
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Radiohead wrapped up work on their second album – The Bends – by the end of 1995, and got it out in March of that year. It was a more complex beast than their first album, with dense riffs and some really ethereal soundscapes, plus loads of keyboards thrown in.…
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