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•Radiohead does not have a tour date anywhere in the southern US. The closest they get is Lollapalooza.
•Radiohead only has ONE big blank in their tour- Bonnaroo's week. "But they are in Europe before and after" - yes true - but they are in SPAIN the week before and ICELAND the week after - they have to get on planes and pack up anyways.
•They could play any night, but Saturday currently makes the most sense when considering the history of the fest. Saturday currently has a significantly less powerful late night setup than Friday. Thursday night is unprecedented and unrealistic in a million ways....which strangely feels very Radiohead.
•We know that Bonnaroo has tried to do secret giant acts in the past, most notably Kanye in 2013 (which failed, they ended up getting him as a headliner for 2014). I would argue a surprise Kanye add would be in the same category of epicness of a late Radiohead late-add. Also, If you were going to do something like this and not feel pressure to do it annually... you'd do it on a Big Anniversary...
•We know Radiohead enjoys Bonnaroo and often cites their shows at Roo as among their very best. In the history of Bonnaroo, there is arguably no act that has been more transformative to the festival as Radiohead.
•We also know that Bonnaroo's people have been talking to Radiohead because of their appearances at the sister festivals... BOTH of them.
•Bonnaroo had a fucking Artist Page for Radiohead on their website. At first, someone took a screenshot and posted it to Inforoo and the assclowns there scolded him for 'faking it'. A week or two later, internet masters found there was actually a legitimate artist page for Radiohead on Bonnaroo's website. Bonnaroo admitted to CoS that they had a mistake on their website. The artist page description is different than those on the sister fest websites. Keep in mind - Bonnaroo at this point knows there is legitimate Radiohead hype building
•Within a week of the Radiohead slip up on their website, THIS INSTAGRAM POST was made by Bonnaroo. They are very clearly referencing Radiohead in both their picture and description. As any rational being would conclude, the comments are FULL of Radiohead mentions - everyone is flipping out in the comments. Bonnaroo absolutely knows there is Radiohead hype and has fed into it....
•Radiohead's first Album Teaser was Sunday, when they wiped their social media. Within the last 36 hours, they posted a video snippet and then this morning at ~7am EST they posted their first REAL teaser - a video for Burning the Witch. Within 2 hours of Radiohead's first major album teaser, Bonnaroo tweets that something Magical is happening this week. This is after ALL of the above has happened.
•Bonnaroo, has rarely hyped an announcement like this before, giving additional support that we are getting more than a schedule. Bonnaroo knows there is serious hype for Radiohead. If you didn't have Radiohead, you would never tweet out a surprise tip. You would release the schedule, let the hype die down, and then announce whatever extra magic is coming.
Well this inforoo assclown has gotta give the guy props for his dedication to speculation. But come on man.
I just love the mechanics of this. Bonnaroo is waiting to announce Radiohead as a surprise headliner. They're not announcing now, but rather waiting for Radiohead to announce all their other dates and for those tickets to go on sale and sell out before announcing. This surprise show at Bonnaroo won't be the first of the tour, or presumably special in anyway. In fact it would be a one-off between several previously announced European dates (the type of routing Radiohead has previously said they avoid because of environmental costs of shipping gear back and forth). The whole thing makes no sense on so many levels. I really admire the hustle.
Well this inforoo assclown has gotta give the guy props for his dedication to speculation. But come on man.
I just love the mechanics of this. Bonnaroo is waiting to announce Radiohead as a surprise headliner. They're not announcing now, but rather waiting for Radiohead to announce all their other dates and for those tickets to go on sale and sell out before announcing. This surprise show at Bonnaroo won't be the first of the tour, or presumably special in anyway. In fact it would be a one-off between several previously announced European dates (the type of routing Radiohead has previously said they avoid because of environmental costs of shipping gear back and forth). The whole thing makes no sense on so many levels. I really admire the hustle.
My favorite part is that multiple people responded with specific reasons why the theory doesn't make sense like you just did yet inforoo still gets reduced down to assholes saying the photo was fake.
I just love the mechanics of this. Bonnaroo is waiting to announce Radiohead as a surprise headliner. They're not announcing now, but rather waiting for Radiohead to announce all their other dates and for those tickets to go on sale and sell out before announcing. This surprise show at Bonnaroo won't be the first of the tour, or presumably special in anyway. In fact it would be a one-off between several previously announced European dates (the type of routing Radiohead has previously said they avoid because of environmental costs of shipping gear back and forth). The whole thing makes no sense on so many levels. I really admire the hustle.
My favorite part is that multiple people responded with specific reasons why the theory doesn't make sense like you just did yet inforoo still gets reduced down to assholes saying the photo was fake.
Well, I am an asshole, and the photo was faked, but that's all beside the point.
My favorite part is that multiple people responded with specific reasons why the theory doesn't make sense like you just did yet inforoo still gets reduced down to assholes saying the photo was fake.
Well, I am an asshole, and the photo was faked, but that's all beside the point.
At this point, Bonnaroo could come out and say "Radiohead will not headline this year. No games. They will not be a surprise headliner" and people on reddit would still be making excuses about them saying that
Well, I am an asshole, and the photo was faked, but that's all beside the point.
At this point, Bonnaroo could come out and say "Radiohead will not headline this year. No games. They will not be a surprise headliner" and people on reddit would still be making excuses about them saying that
I'm sure there are some perfectly reasonable people on Reddit. Lord knows inforoo has gone down some rabbit holes before.
Well, I am an asshole, and the photo was faked, but that's all beside the point.
At this point, Bonnaroo could come out and say "Radiohead will not headline this year. No games. They will not be a surprise headliner" and people on reddit would still be making excuses about them saying that
Not sure it would JUST be people on reddit. Some people want to believe regardless of apparent truths.
Well, I am an asshole, and the photo was faked, but that's all beside the point.
At this point, Bonnaroo could come out and say "Radiohead will not headline this year. No games. They will not be a surprise headliner" and people on reddit would still be making excuses about them saying that
Alex Young already said this. I know people don't like him but he's been right about literally everything so far.
Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on May 3, 2016 15:53:15 GMT -5
Decoding the Politics in Radiohead’s “Burn the Witch” Video The Pitch
by Marc Hogan Senior Staff Writer
When Radiohead's "Burn the Witch" video surfaced earlier today, the UK press was quick to note its similarity to 1960s British children's television. The Evening Standard called the Chris Hopewell-directed clip "'Trumpton'-themed." The Guardian reported that the video features "animation in the style of Bob Bura and John Hardwick, the creators of 'Trumpton,' 'Chigley,' and 'Camberwick Green.'" The Mirror asked, "Is the video for Radiohead's new single 'Burn the Witch' inspired by kids TV classic 'Trumpton'?"
Collectively known as the “Trumptonshire Trilogy,” the three aforementioned stop-motion series were created by Gordon Murray and began airing in 1966. Murray is 96 years old now, according to his son-in-law William Mollett, who told me over the phone when asked if he was aware of the Radiohead video, "I'm not aware of anything, no." (Hopewell wasn't immediately available for comment, and neither were Radiohead's publicists, when asked if the band sought permission from rights holders.)
However, it's not clear that Radiohead would've actually wanted Murray's blessing for the "Burn the Witch" video, which ends up resembling a bit of vintage UK cinema far more familiar to non-British viewers: '70s horror film The Wicker Man. Teased since the mid-'00s, the song finds Thom Yorke intoning ominous commands like "Stay in the shadows/Cheer at the gallows" and "Abandon all reason/Avoid all eye contact." Arriving at the current chaotic moment in global politics, though, and set in the quaint visual context of “Trumpton,” the "Burn the Witch" video plays as a pointed critique of nativism-embracing leaders across the UK and Europe, perhaps even the show's near-namesake stateside (Donald Trump, anyone?).
Like “Sesame Street” in the states, “Trumpton” has continued to resonate across UK culture, aided by VHS/DVD releases and a 2011 digital restoration. Pitchfork's London-based contributing editor Laura Snapes tells me the “Trumpton” fire brigade's roll call—"Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub"—is "like a little British poem that everyone knows." Noel Gallagher has even credited one “Trumptonshire Trilogy” character with inspiring the "slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball" line from Oasis's "Champagne Supernova." Unlike the proudly urban and diverse “Sesame Street,” though, the “Trumpton” mostly portrayed a quaint village life that was already a halcyon idyll in austere post-war Britain. "There's no crime, you know, in Trumptonshire," Murray recently told the Sunday Post. "It's a happy world."
In that sense, “Trumpton” reflects the mythical small-town "family values" often championed by the sort of right-wing politicians who, let it be said, have never exactly been Radiohead's cup of tea. The connection between “Trumpton” and far-right politics became explicit in 2014, when a Twitter user with the handle @trumpton_UKIP began poking fun at the right-wing, populist UK Independence Party—and a UKIP politician called for a ban on the spoof account. Sad!
The outcome of all the gallows-cheering and reason-abandonment in Radiohead's "Burn the Witch" is foreshadowed in the song's title. It's no coincidence a witch hunt was also at the crux of Arthur Miller's English-teacher favorite The Crucible, a play that emerged during another moment of paranoid demagoguery (McCarthyism and the Red Scare). Paranoid demagoguery, you probably won't be surprised to hear, is having a bit of a moment. In the UK, “Trumpton” might embody the bucolic vision of UKIP, the party that has found success in recent years opposing immigration and the European Union. Over in France, the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe National Front—led by Marine Le Pen—has forced unusual alliances between the mainstream parties in order to defeat her historically controversial party. Whether the country is Germany or Sweden, Denmark or Hungary, anti-immigrant populists are resurgent throughout Europe.
Which brings us back to America's own mayor of Trumpton, a certain Donald Trump, who surely is wondering whom he could sue right now for putting his name on a town he doesn't own (and how much it would cost to put a wall around it). With the "Burn the Witch" video, Radiohead use pastoral English imagery to confront a global phenomenon, and inject their characteristically iconoclastic voice in the U.S. presidential election season (something they've done before). "We know where you live," Yorke sings. For all of Trump's protestations about size, he speaks from a small place—one that doesn't exist, and never really did, but is dreadfully hard to escape. In the video, once the villagers' ritualistic frenzy is over, a serene calm returns, but it's not guaranteed to last.
Radiohead Animator Says Islamophobia & 'Wicker Man' Influenced Eerie 'Burn the Witch' Video
5/4/2016 by Gil Kaufman
When Radiohead call to say they want you to animate their hush-hush new video, you don't ask a lot of questions. And when they say it would be lovely if you could complete it in what seems like an impossible timeframe, you just load up on coffee and resign yourself to not sleeping for a few weeks.
That's the beautiful dilemma veteran Yorkshire, England, animator Virpi Kettu told Billboard she was in recently when director Chris Hopewell reached out to ask if she was up for re-teaming with him for another Radiohead project. "It was inspired by a British series called Camberwick Green and we had to rehearse a lot because there's a specific walk the puppets had in the series and a specific kind jerkiness of the thing," Kettu said by way of explaining the purposely "hacky," jerky movements of the characters in the clip for the band's new single, "Burn the Witch."
Kettu and Hopewell -- who also worked together on the 2013 video for Radiohead's "There There" -- basically got the entire band back together for the disturbingly cute stop-motion "Witch" clip, using the same camera person, editors and director of photography to create the four-minute mini-drama that unexpectedly dropped on Tuesday.
"The band specifically wanted it to look close to that original Camberwick series, they wanted it to remind people of that," she said. "It's a very English thing, everybody here knows it. It's based on these three little towns and it's a series that went for a long time and nothing really happens. It's really boring."
While Kettu said Camberwick (and a similar series from the same producers, Trumpton) is renowned for long shots with little movement in which characters stand or walk slowly, Radiohead specifically wanted the "Witch" video to be happier than the song and the album, which, from what she's heard, is very dark. "They wanted the video to contrast with what they're playing and to wake people up a bit."
That might explain the somewhat cheery demeanor of masked characters who appear close to beheading and then hanging one of the women in town, and who then nearly burn a man alive inside of a giant wooden effigy. Based on Kettu's understanding of what the band was after, they wanted "Witch" to raise awareness about the refugee crisis in Europe and the "blaming of different people... the blaming of Muslims and the negativity" that could lead to sentiments such as "burn the witch." She alluded to the mysterious postcard some Radiohead fans received recently that read, "we know where you live," a suggestion, she thought, of the current insecurity and blame game spawned by anti-immigration politicians.
Kettu -- who, along with another of the clip's animators, Oli Putland, is a veteran of Aardman Animations, creators of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep -- said Hopewell's "beautiful head of ideas" was the driving force behind visual cues in the video and the characters, some of whom were dreamed up based on townfolk from Camberwick. In addition to Camberwick, he also drew on iconic imagery from the 1973 British cult classic horror movie The Wicker Man, which, like the video, includes characters in animals masks and the burning of an effigy.
When asked how long the shoot took, Kettu had to laugh, seemingly still shocked that the team was able to build the sets, shoot and edit the entire thing in 14 days. "That's physically impossible. I had not slept for two weeks," she said of the exhausting shoot that took place just a few weeks ago.
The entire team for the project was only a dozen people or so and Kettu still seemed a bit stunned that they managed to crank out up to 30 seconds of footage a day. "It does go slowly usually, we usually make about 12 seconds or less at studios like Aardman where I used to work on Wallace & Grommit, where we did about four seconds a day," she said, noting that handful of finished daily footage is typically achieved with a much bigger support team.
"That was quite heavy lifting," she said, crediting the speedy work to two factors: "the power of pizza. [Also] I really love Radiohead and I really love animation, so you put those two together and I'd do anything. It was one of the most demanding things I've ever done in my life, physically and mentally. "
In keeping with the band's veil of secrecy, Kettu said she had "just little snippets of information" on how the clip would be rolled out, only learning that the finished product was in the world when she woke up to an inbox flooded with emails on Tuesday.
As for whether there might be any future collaborations, Kettu was cagey. "I'm not sure if I can say." And, given what a huge fan she is, did she get to meet singer Thom Yorke and the rest of the band and get their reaction?
"I wish. I wish they came by," she said. "We sent them a few snippets back and forth and they always kind of loved it. Their pre-plan was quite clear and straightforward of what they wanted to say. Thom Yorke is very decisive when it comes to things like this."