Digital Distractions has torrents of the seminal Kids in the Hall series.

P.S: Sorry about the lack of updates, I’m enjoying some nice weather.

Sat, April 17th. At last. Radiohead arrive in Tokyo. I’d been looking forward to this day since last November when the gig was announced. As I think I’ve mentioned before in other blog entries I love Radiohead with a terrible passion - I want to have Thom Yorkes babies. Sad I know, but these are the emotions they inspire in me. I’ve only seen them live once before, back around 97ish. They headlined at the Big Day Out in Galway while on the bends tour. It was lashing rain that day and all the preceding acts had been shit, so the crowd was pretty depressed by the time Radiohead came on stage, but they blew everyone away - absolutely amazing. Ever since then I’ve revered them.

They were on the Hail To The Thief tour this time. The two preceding albums were Kid A and Amnesiac - two difficult albums, which sounded bloody awful initially, but if you gave them a chance they grew from being ugly ducklings into beautiful beautiful swans. Hail To The Thief is a lot more accessible, but does fade a bit after listening to it for a few weeks, Though ‘Wolf At The Door’ just gets better and better. All in all though, I think both Kid A and Amesiac are better albums.

The gig was on a Saturday thank God. I’ve gone to a lot of midweek gigs here after work and its just not the same. It was starting quite early - 5pm and they didn’t have any support bands, but it was a really nice day so the plan formulated was to go out to Makuhari Messe really early, get good and drunk outside and go from there. That plan backfired a bit though, because by the time the gig started I was roaring drunk, was having severe trouble walking straight and I have huge gaps in my memories of the gig. Ooops !! I do remember that they opened with ‘Lucky’, played a lot of songs off Amnesiac and were absolutely fucking brilliant. I’m not sure if they toured for Amnesiac - if they did they didn’t come anywhere near where I was living, but they made up for it here.
The thing with Radiohead, is that even though their albums are amazing, the songs just sound so much better live. The highlight of the show was ‘How To Disappear Completely’ from Kid A. A song that didn’t particularly stand out on the album for me, but live just blew me away. Other songs which stood out (and that I remember) were ‘High And Dry’, ‘Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box’ and ‘Myxomatosis’ - another song which I didn’t think was all that good on Hail To The Thief - but really did the business live.

I don’t have much more to say really, except that if you haven’t discovered Radiohead yet - not likely I know if you read b00mb0x - then please go now and discover them, and if they’re playing anywhere within a 200 mile radius of you, go see them. Next time I go see them I’ll be as sober as a judge.

On a slightly different tangent I saw UNKLE recently - with Ian Brown doing vocals. I didn’t know their music at all before I saw them but I was very impressed. Never Neverland is a great album, and Thom Yorke does vocals on ‘Rabbit In Your Headlights’ from the Psyence Fiction album, which automatically makes it their best song. Apparently the video for this song was banned for extreme violence.

Culturedeluxe’s second incarnation is looking quite snazzy.