Not only does the announcement of this super group totally catch everyone off guard, but they are playing tonight in LA!
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A few days ago Thom Yorke announced he had a new band put together on the Radiohead blog Dead Air Space. I have to admit, I didn’t pay much attention to it. He already did a solo record a few years ago “The Eraser” and the bit I heard online was that he would be doing some tracks from this. Well I really should have paid more attention.
From Radiohead Blog:
hi, in the past couple of weeks i’ve been getting a band together for fun to play the eraser stuff live and the new songs etc.. to see if it could work!
here’s a photo.. its me, joey waronker, mauro refosco, flea and nigel godrich.
Flea is in the band? Crazy but this is just the backing band for Thom and they are just doing Eraser material right? Well that’s what I thought until you read this line:
at the beginning of october the 4th and 5th we are going to do a couple of shows at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. we don’t really have a name and the set will not be very long cuz ..well …we haven’t got that much material yet! but come and check it out if you are in the area. we’ve also got locals Lucky Dragons playing.all the best
Wait, no name and do not have a lot of material yet? This is blowing my mind. Earlier today Thom made another post on the blog announcing a show in LA tonight.
so yes that band thats doesnt really have a name that im working with at the moment??????
have decided to do a warm-up show on Friday Oct 2nd around 9pm at the Echoplex in Los Angeles
Its not that big, it’ll be total chaos and its kind of a rehearsal but .. if you are near by..
below is a link to get tickets.
hope you get lucky with it.
Tickets are already sold out as expected but if you have 800 bucks then Ebay has you covered here. While I continue to wrap my head around this extraordinary news, check out a video from the Eraser album for the song Harrowdown Hill.
