Radiohead - Poor Live

[Coogee]

This particular system was more different and much more effective, over 95% of ticket purchasers got no actual tickets.
When you colle ted them on the day of the gig, you had to have photo ID and the confirmation email with the same name as on the email confirmation,you were then immediately wrist banded on the spot. If you bought tickets from the Fanclub, you had to name both people attending at the time of purchase and were non transferable, Fanclub members who bought standing tickets were also in a special q, and got in first, and the fan club is completely free. The best operated distribution of tickets I have ever seen.

They also held back a few hundred tickets till a few weeks before the gigs and sold them only through their website to members. This is not completely unheard of, but it's fairly rare for bigger gigs.

yeah pity that all gigs couldnt be like this...ticketmaster is a monopoly though and then you have the likes of seatwave and viagogo who are in bed with ticketmaster and concert promoters...the whole thing is a joke really....Pearl Jam took on ticketmaster nearly 20 years ago and failed and they have only gotten stronger now

 

[Falling At Your Feet]

ha, just remembered, at the end of the astoria gig where rh supported, the franks (or their helpers) threw into the crowd 100's of small plastic trains, boats and planes that were actually whistles

grabbed a few but ended up giving most of them to various girls who asked me for them (seemed to be tons of japanese girls there that night) and folk went off down tottenham court road etc whistling away

still have one in a box somewhere (a whistle i mean, not a japanese girl)

Very interesting, I didn't know that.
Looked it up and Radiohead supported the Franks for lots of gigs in 1992,a whole 20 gig Uk tour in fact, they also supported the Sultans Of Ping on October 8th 1992 according to this list:
http://www.ateaseweb.com/live/1992/

The Franks must have got to know the Radiohead lads a little bit, they were in each others pockets for a whole month.

 

[Jim Comic]

aye, t'was around the time radiohead signed to emi

i was meeting a mate of mine who worked with emi for lunch that day and he asked me what i was up to that night. I said i'm off to the franks at the astoria. he then asked "who's supporting?" i whipped out my newly bought ticket and said "some crowd called radiohead" to which he replied "oh we just signed them"

i remember writing a review of the gig in choc-a-bloc fanzine and saying something like "pray these guys come to cork soon"..... but they never did, de gits I was particularly impressed with the main guitarist if i recall correctly

 

[Jim Comic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlzci1rKNM&feature=player_embedded

 

[Jim Comic]

http://www.spin.com/articles/radioh...k&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spinfacebook

 

[Falling At Your Feet]

They are overdue a trip here, maybe 2013. As Ireland was overlooked this year.

 

[Jim Comic]

THOM YORKE ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF ATOMS FOR PEACE ALBUM

DEBUT ALBUM 'AMOK' TO BE RELEASED ON 22ND FEBRUARY 2013 (26TH FEBRUARY IN THE US) ON XL RECORDINGS

ALBUM TRACKLIST, ARTWORK AND NEW LOOK WEBSITE (WWW.ATOMSFORPEACE.INFO) REVEALED


Monday 3rd December: Thom Yorke has just announced full details of Atoms For Peace's debut album via http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/ with the following post:


"So finally I can tell you the Atoms for Peace record is coming out on the 22nd February, it's called Amok.

The front will look like theez...





The tracks are

Before Your Very Eyes
Default
Ingenue
Dropped
Unless
Stuck Together Pieces
Judge Jury and Executioner
Reverse Running
Amok

We put something new on the website for you to stare at etc for a while here.. www.atomsforpeace.info
It's a while to wait i know so i'm sure some other things will occur before then.

Atoms for Peace... members of staff

Me Vocals Keyboards Programming and Guitars
Nigel Godrich Production & Programming
Joey Waronker Drums
Mauro Refosco Percussion
Flea Bass

We formed to learn to play The Eraser record, if you don't know that, and discovered a really good energy doing that.. and it fell into this record.

I'm still reeling from being on tour for much of the year but we are planning to get together and play etc next year !We're figuring all that out right now.

Atoms is a ongoing and open ended project, where it leads i know not for certain.... which is what is nice about it."

(ENDS)

'Amok' will be available on CD, Deluxe CD, LP, Deluxe LP and download and will feature artwork from longtime collaborator Stanley Donwood.

 

[supersonic06]

New album from The Smile out
on this Friday. jawb