Friday, February 26th 2010
News: Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke Jams New Atoms In Your Ear
Radiohead/Atoms For Peace frontman Thom Yorke pulled a fast one last night with an appearance at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in – you guessed it – Cambridge, England. The 19-song “low key solo thing” was to benefit Green Party member Tony Juniper.
A slow, piano-driven falsetto ballad called The Daily Mail was among three new songs played, dedicated to “the open-minded, liberal people of this country” (as if any of his music is for anyone else). Following was Give Up The Ghost, a delicate acoustic track with instant gravity that featured a loop of Yorke pleading “don’t hold me”- ConsequenceOfSound nailed it when they called Mouse Dog Bird Neil Young-esque.
These tracks could very well find themselves on the inevitably forthcoming Atoms For Peace record, a new group featuring Yorke, RHCP bassist flea, producer Nigel Godrich on keyboards, and session percussionists Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco. The band first played last October without a name (we’ve got much better video of that performance), and when named in the lineup for this year’s Coachella festival, they were billed under the name ????. But it seems that’s all been settled now.
“Hope you like the name,” Yorke wrote on Radiohead’s site. “It seemed bleedin’ obvious.”
Here’s The Daily Mail:
Mouse Dog Bird:
Give Up The Ghost:
Setlist:
The Clock
The Eraser
Weird Fishes
The Daily Mail
Pyramid Song
Harrowdown Hill
Lotus Flower
Give Up The Ghost
These Are My Twisted Words
I Froze Up
Like Spinning Plates
Black Swan
Cymbal Rush
Videotape
Encore #1
Mouse Dog Bird
Reckoner
Airbag
Atoms For Peace
Encore #2
True Love Waits
Atoms For Peace is touring as well:
Apr. 5: New York @ Roseland
Apr. 6: New York @ Roseland
Apr. 8: Boston, MA @ Citi Wang Theatre
Apr. 10: Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
Apr. 11: Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
Apr. 14: Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre
Apr. 15: Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre
Apr. 17: Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
Apr. 18: Indio, CA @ Coachella
Photo: NickPickles
I don’t think there’s an Atoms For Peace record on the way, but these songs are pretty great.
Yeah, I’d put money on that one.
Awesoooommmmeeeeeeeee
i really hope the group puts out an album, would be more interesting then a radiohead record i think
gorgeous
FYI, the Daily Mail is a right-wing publication in the UK: hates immigrants, denies climate change, all that jazz. So Thom was being ironic when he said it was dedicated to “the open minded, liberal people of this country”.
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