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http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/

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Edit January 1, 2021: The above link now just redirects to W.A.S.T.E. HQ.

Radiohead in Prague – 23 09 2009. A fan-made film available for download in a variety of formats. Audio masters were provided by the band.

Colin Greenwood:

It’s been nearly three years since we announced our “pay what you think it’s worth” scheme for the launch of our last record In Rainbows. I remember the excitement of it all, not least because the release date was my wife’s birthday, 10 October. The idea came from a friend of our manager, who proposed an “honesty box”, placing the onus on people to ask themselves how much they valued our music. Last summer, as we finished some more recordings, we started to think and talk about how to release them…

From his essay Set Yourself Free.

??????, Thom Yorke’s band that performed in early October (playing “The Eraser” and “Atoms For Peace”), will be called Atoms For Peace (wiki).

From the Dead Air Space entry:

ok so in April the other band.. that i got together to do the eraser and other stuff u know .. Mauro, Flea, Me, Joey and Nigel is going back out to do some shows in the US.. ending with playing with Coachella. we had too much fun to just leave it there…

it has been decided that we call ourselves Atoms For Peace. hope you like the name.. it seemed bleedin’ obvious.

Atoms for Peace is also “the title of a speech delivered by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953.” The text of the speech is available at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) website: http://www.iaea.org/About/history_speech.html.

An excerpt: “Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.” That a force of destruction can be the background for peace is called, in classical logic, a contradiction. But the speech does assert that nuclear power, “must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.”

But, as Yorke has noted (see “nuclear power no thanks”), nuclear power can’t easily–if at all–be turned over to the arts of peace. Yorke directs readers to, for example, http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/nuclear.

[corrected 2/18]

i will slip myself into your pocket
invisible
do what you want, do what you want
i will shrink and i will disappear
i will slip into a groove and cut me up and cut me up

there’s an empty space inside my heart
that once had you
now i set you free
i set you free

there’s an empty space inside my heart
where the weeds take root
so now i set you free
i set you free

slowly we unfurl
as lotus flowers
and all I want is the moon upon a stick
just to see what if
just to see what if
I can’t kick the habit
just to feed your fast ballooning head
listen to your heart

we will shrink and we’ll be quiet as mice
and while the cat is away and do what we want
do what we want

there’s an empty space inside my heart
where the wings take root
so now i set you free
i set you free

because all I want is the moon upon a stick
just to see what if
just to see what if
a bird that’s flown in to my room
slowly we unfurl
as lotus flowers
and all I want is the moon upon a stick
dancing around a pit
the darkness is beneath
i can’t kick the habit
just to feed your fast ballooning head
listen to your heart

When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun. A documentary on Tibet.

Thom Yorke: composer. Along with Philip Glass and Damien Rice.

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Update January 2, 2021: The above links no longer work. Information on the movie is available on IMDB and Philip Glass’s website as well.

From The Basement, 2008:

For MTV’s EXIT (End Exploitation and Human Trafficking), 2008:

Scotch Mist Version, Live, Dec 31 2007, stars at (1 minute, 30 seconds):

News from W.A.S.T.E:

just to let you know that Thom was guest DJ/co-host on Radio 1 Gilles Peterson show and this may be info that you would like to post onto your sites.

It was broadcast in the early hours of this morning and here’s a link for all to listen again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pws59

Including a glimpse of what Pitchfork calls Thom Yorke’s “trademark adorable/nerdy dance moves.”

“In concert the band brought out muscular, kinetic patterns, to which Mr. Yorke responded with peculiar but totally liberated dancing.” – Thom Yorke’s New Band, From Many Angles

“‘It was excellent,’ said Matt Lingo, a 21-year-old student. ‘It was the most depressing dance music I’ve ever heard.'”