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

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.

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

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.

alone*

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

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

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

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

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.)

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.

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

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.

Kitchens of Distinction?

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

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.

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

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.)

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

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

Okay, I'm going to bed.

Kitchens of Distinction thats it

I can officially No Longer Cope.

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

This obsession must end.

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*

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

when's LIFT coming out?

Dates in Manchester Evening News Arena and O2 London in October. I've never been to either, which is best?

Never been to O2, but the MEN is a dreadful shed and I cannot think that O2 can possibly be worse (given that it's much more modern).

I'm leaning towards London, but they're midweek and Manchester is on a Saturday so..

This is when I reconcile myself once again to the fact that I will never see Radiohead live again.

At least when Big Arena Concerts were still at Wembley, even though it was a fucking shed with horrible sound, you could at least get home easily. Going to the O2 means that you'll be 4 hours on a night bus.

I'm not going to bitch and moan too much, I knew this was going to happen, I was reconciled to it, but I do just want to growl. Sod it, I hate going to gigs these days anyways, even when they're little gigs in reasonable sit-down theatres, because I'm old and I've lost all sense of fun and I physically cannot stand for 3 hours.

There's vids posted in The Other Place so I'm going to watch HD YouTubes of B-sides I never thought would be played live and not get my knickers in a twist and try to go back to not caring.

I'm sorry, can I just...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f69I--5K9oo

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can't. cope.

Maybe you could make, like, lots of vid representations of these tracks and post them on thom's wall!

He'd like that..

Fuck off.

um, I wasn't meaning that meanly..

I don't care whether you meant it "meanly" or not, it was still a shitty thing to say and you have actually hurt me and made me feel like shit so, thanks for ruining what was actually one of the few meaningful lifts in days.

We just need constant reminders, don't we, that ~behaving like a teenage girl~ is the worst thing in the universe, and that obsessive female fandom, it ruins everything.

That was cruel and uncalled for, on so many levels.

OK, I apologise.

There's nothing wrong with obsessive fandom, female or otherwise.

lol

I know it'd be gauche to complain about ticket prices in that Other Place when everyone is maxing out their credit cards flying around the world to go to every single date on a world tour, but... I dunno, pretty much the only places I ever go to gigs any more are the SBC and the Barbican where I get itchy about £20 to £30 tickets because I'm used to paying less than £10 to go to Sonic Cathedral or whatever, but at least I'm guaranteed a good view and a nice place to sit unlike a stadium gig

BUT BUT BUT. I guess, this is what I was talking with Emsk about on the train, about the stratospheric cost of tickets due to legal, band-approved secondary ticket markets and compared to that, RH are doing some kind of ethical thing in terms of not doing that, but still.

I'm going to make a list of things I could be doing with my £65 instead of going to see Radiohead in a fucking arena and buying them each another house and sending their kids to boarding school.

1) Immersive Cornish Language weekend in Newquay
2) tickets for me, and a friend, to the entire weekend of the WOW (Women of the World) Festival
3) A month of gigs at the Brixton Windmill
4) Dinner for 4, plus 2 bottles of wine at the Tooting Thali house of my choice
5) Hire a marquee at the Streatham Festival and sell postcards and prints of local landmarks

I know, I know, this is old man shaking his cane at the clouds territory considering it's actually pretty freaking REASONABLE for a stadium gig and all, but still. Just head-shakey at the winner-takes-all set up of costing for concert tickets for the umpteenth millionth time.

Meeting In The Aisle and A.S.O. Orgy are two of my favourite B-Sides, digging the new set-list!

Yeah, the setlists on this tour are absolutely incredible, some real gems in there. But, just... not £65 incredible, when I can get them for free on YouTube (sorry, I know Mr Yorke has been complaining about that, but y'know, I'm sure I'll buy the £65 biodegradable box set filled with Stanley Donwood art, when that comes out.)

It's 'lack of corporate sponsorship' isn't it?

The choice is between 'putting a few Barclaycard posters up to save punters a fiver (or more?)' and, um, not.

Or, of course, scrimping on the light show.

Or, all of the above.

They are their own corporation at this point! I'm not even talking about their personal wealth (£45 million or whatever it was quoted at) but the more I read from srs fans, the more I'm interested about finding out about the structure of wholly owned subsidiaries like W.A.S.T.E. and Sandbag and the like. I mean, not in a "try and catch them out" sort of sense, or even in a "money where your mouths are" sense but, like - trying to see how it all works out.

And in terms of corporate sponsorship - playing the American Airlines Arena and the Hewlett Packard Pavillion (because the sponsorship often goes on the venue itself, as tour support for bands usually comes from labels) is hardly scrimping, y'know?

I don't think they're being breadheads about this. Bands like U2 take corporate sponsorship (at least in part) to subsidise a batch of cheap tickets but that's not Radiohead's style. And given that concerts are where bands make their money now I can't quibble too much with their pricing. That said, £65 for a lot of Kings of Limb material is not for me. Are there really no cheaper ones?

It's not that I think they're being breadheads. It's just that... I'm unemployed; I can't afford a £65 ticket. (And I wouldn't go to an arena show anyway.)

Given the scale of their touring, is or isn't £65 a reasonable price or not? OK, sustainable recycled low-energy lighting rigs don't design and build themselves. Is this what it all costs? When a tour isn't subsidised and given tour supports? (I don't imagine XL has the budget EMI did. Also, RH choose their own support acts, rather than relying on buy-ons, all that kind of thing adds up.)

But this is when I wish Emsk would get on this thread to talk about the whole ticket pricing scandal, because I'm not an expert on this, and she is. But it seems like RH are doing something on this tour to try to address secondary reselling - but at the cost of many fans not being able to trade tickets among themselves to make sure that messageboard type srs fans all got to see as many shows as they could.

I'm not criticising pe se, I just don't know how this part works, and I wish that I did.

Also, it's not just TKOL era stuff, they are really bringing out some serious fan service in terms of the beloved and rare B-sides and older material they've been playing.