Radiohead LP9 Anticipation, Fangirling and random Cheesecake Thread (Do not read if you hate Radiohead or us)

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This was like 97 or 98! I know because it was before I moved back to the UK and I got here in 98. I'm fairly certain it was official because they used to post on it (their names were in a different colour but it was really easy to fake if you knew HTML - that's how basic it was.)

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link

Thable Thom managed to turn himself blue a couple of times and caused quite some confusion, despite clearly stating he was a "cloan" and an "imajinery frend"

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link

What you're talking about sounds like the official forum they have now, which started in September '99. As far as I know (and I've been on the official forum since then), there was no precursor to it and it was the first one they posted on regularly. Before that they just used to troll IRC. And there was slash on the forum from the beginning and no mod structure to speak of other than one tech guy to make sure it wasn't broken.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link

And in '99 they were red, not blue!

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link

It was 98 at the latest. I don't remember what the colours were but I was posting on it from my parents house in Upstate NY. I may not remember last week, but I remember posting on that forum.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link

Maybe it was some sort of EMI or Parlophone official board that wasn't located on Radiohead.com? That's all I can think of.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link

It was definitely linked from Radiohead.com because I wouldn't have found it any other way.

There were a couple of other boards - there was, like emusic and there was the White Chocolate Farm - but I am positive it was an official board and they were posting on it. I'm not 100% certain on this, but I seem to recall it was Phil that was grossed out by it, though that could be my memory playing tricks on me.

It was over that Entertain Me site I used to do - there were two artists who objected to it, and one was Graham Coxon and the other was Radiohead. Like, this was something that used to provide me with frequent enough legal worries that I kept track of who was amenable (and whose management would actually work with us) and who was not.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link

Maybe it was someone in EMI who objected, because as far as I know no one has ever gotten any trouble from Radiohead or any of the people who actually speak for them or their wishes. One of my earliest memories of that board was someone posting her fanfiction for me to read, which is how I discovered there was even such thing as fanfiction.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link

When I was getting threatened with legal writs, I wasn't exactly checking if it was a band member's name or an EMI bod on the cease and desist emails.

Actually, I might make sense that it was someone at EMI, since it was both Blur and RH that caused the most hassle (though it's weird because the Dandy Warhols, who were also on the same label, were hugely cool about it all.) But I honestly thought it came from specific members of the band. It was a long time ago, they may have changed their attitudes.

In the end, we just changed all the names and the bands became "Slur" and "Radioshack" and no one could say anything after that.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link

This is gonna bug me now, it's like 1 in the morning and I can't sleep, all these old memories stirred up in my head.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link

I'm trying to remember if I even started Entertain Me in 95 or 96, but it was on Geocities (LOL prehistory of the web) before I got mine own server space, it never even had its own domain. It was first! *stamps feet* It was before fanfiction.net, it was before fandomination - we were only beaten to publishing by the lovely blue planet of There by a few months, but they wouldn't host dirty stuff and we would, so I win.

Forever!

So there.

(feeling quite defensive now, can you tell?)

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link

There are very few accomplishments in my life that I'm really proud of, but founding E-Me and getting it discussed in, like, Rolling Stone, and getting music fan fiction and slash into the discourse like that, that's one of the things that I really want to point my finger to and say "I did that, that was me."

Of all the little tiny scratches in the markings of pop culture history, FFS, let me be proud of just that damn one.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link

This is so completely not about Radioshack at all any more. Humph.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link

It might be on web.archive.org if you can remember the exact url.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link

Radioshack?

Christ, I am lost in the past. I need to sleep, but there's just too much static in my head, I hate this.

Bits of the Escape site are on the Wayback Machine, but the earlier stuff, the Geocities stuff, that's just gone. I'm fucked if I can remember the zip code or however it was divvied up, they had the most confusing addressing system of all time.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:05 (twelve years ago) link

Maybe you can find really old fansites that still link to it to get the exact address? I wish google still had their 2001 index up, I used that to find so many old websites. But it takes some commitment and a lot of waybacking.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link

It's probably all for the best. Some of the authors went on to become proper published novelists, they'd be embarrassed if their juvenilia came out like that. ;-)

I've obviously still got most of the stuff that I wrote, but obv that was only a fraction of it. Irony being, "Radioshack" weren't even that popular a slash combo. Not like "Slur" and "Sirhan Sirhan" and even Sloan - I can't even remember what Sloan's fake name was any more. LOL 90s.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link

Everyone has backed away slowly from this thread but us now, oh the hilarity.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link

God my life is pathetic now. ;_;

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link

'90s fansite minutiae is pretty boring unless you were there, to be fair. x-post

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link

I dunno, I'm sorry to be so defensive over "but this was a THING! this HAPPENED!" but I've avoided RH official fandom and RH as people for, like, 15 years now or whatever because of that encounter. It's weird how you can work up things in your head to be so much more of a bigger deal than they ever were to the other side.

Are you saying they're OK with fan fiction now? Or, well, forever?

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link

I do just distinctly remember Phil being like "ew, gross" about it.

But then again even bands were split down the middle, like half of Blur were ok with it and obv Graham being a total freak.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link

If I don't sleep soon my head will explode and I'll start hallucinating. :-(

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, I don't know. They leave it alon. I do remember a few overly enthusiastic types mentioning the slash to them on the message boards years ago and they just joked about it? I think the internet has changed so much in the past 15 years or so though that most fanfic is left alone as an inevitable side effect of fandom on the internet. I mean, I have to say that neither cheesecake nor slash has ever been my primary focus in fandom at all, just a nice distraction every once in a while, but I do know the people who have run various archives and such and none of them have ever gotten any trouble for it as far as I know.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link

alone*

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link

Oh god I should put a breathalyser on my Fucken phone, WTF?

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 07:36 (twelve years ago) link

I can't believe I'm actually seeing Radiohead on Saturday. I haven't seen them for three years!

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 10:51 (twelve years ago) link

Oh god, I would be in an utter state. I have to live vicariously, I'm fairly certain I'll never see them again.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:08 (twelve years ago) link

If they play some smallish place around where you live again, I will find a way to make it happen.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, but "smallish" for them is, like, the O2 Centre. Unless you can persuade them to put on a secret show at, like, the Brixton Windmill, and I don't think even your RH powers are that great. ;-)

(Why didn't I go see them at 93 Feet East? Oh yeah, coz I was working and couldn't get off to go down and queue. I should have quit that job back then.)

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:15 (twelve years ago) link

They periodically do theatre tours. When we met I was going to see them at Shepherd's Bush Empire! And they were just as capable of selling out O2 then.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link

my mate saw them at king tuts supporting um kitchens of convenience? and again on their own

fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 2 March 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, I remember. x-post But even the Empire is too much for me these days. I want seats. I want them to play the South Bank Centre. So I can get a box and rap my fan along in time.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link

Kitchens of Distinction?

Kings of Convenience is a different band, but wrong era.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link

Seated shows are great when you actually have good tickets, but you miss out on all the queuing socialization. And seated shows are terrible when you're even 10 rows back. 10 rows is my limit before I feel like I might as well be watching it on TV.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago) link

I should be in bed. Someone tell me to go to bed.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago) link

Are you still up? That's absurd! Go to bed! (I need to get out of bed, but that's another story in this time zone.)

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link

I've been up packing, and it sapped all the tired out of me and replaced it with a headache and restless energy.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link

That's been me for the past 3 days, and I'm not even going to any shows.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link

Okay, I'm going to bed.

Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link

Kitchens of Distinction thats it

fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 2 March 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link

I can officially No Longer Cope.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/6798773436_06c8e12f57_b.jpg

This obsession must end.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link

Now I'm interested to know if any of the Radiohead members are aware of this and what they think of it.

RHMB inside joke, but i'd guess the answer is something like

*VLTF*

my life is starting over again (Z S), Friday, 2 March 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link

Melissa is probably on a plane to California, so she probably won't see this, but this is a much much MUCH better version of Cut A Hole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6zOVumLCY&feature=youtu.be

Why is he so sexay? Why? Why, god, why? What is it about that funny little man that turns fangirls' reproductive organs to complete mush?

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:22 (twelve years ago) link

Not hating on RH or anything, but to me Yorke looks more and more like the guy behind the counter in a head shop.

the feeling is surreal (snoball), Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:30 (twelve years ago) link

The female half of RH's fanbase could not disagree more.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:56 (twelve years ago) link

Eh, not the entire half. Thom's singing sends occasional shivers down my spine but I just don't find him attractive. The Greenwoods sure, and sometimes Ed, but Yorke? Nope, don't get it. But hey, we all have our thing.

Roz, Saturday, 3 March 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link

Day-um.

OK, maybe it's just one of those chemical things, like hating the taste of cilantro or being unable to smell asparagus - that either you *get* the sexual appeal of Yorke or you just don't. Like, he's one of those people that, on paper, it's just... no. But then you see him perform, and it's the way he *moves* and it is this completely animal reaction. Just... I want to put that in my vagina.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 3 March 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link

When is Melissa back from Texas or California or wherever she's got to?

We need to discuss how Thom has turned into AN ACTUAL PISKIE

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ds6y0t471qbq8uso1_500.gif

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 5 March 2012 09:43 (twelve years ago) link

Skirting on the Surface and the Amazing sound of Orgy got their live radiohead debuts at Dallas today. Amazing sound of orgy sounded thin but there were some substitute arrangements that made it interesting, would have loved to hear that one. Skirting on the Surface sounds like an outtake from The Bends / OKC. I think it was actually written back then, they keep digging that OKC vault, proves how incredibly fruitful that era was to the group.

Moka, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:01 (twelve years ago) link


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