Radiohead mark ‘The Bends’ thirtieth anniversary with unseen 1995 stay present video

Radiohead have celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of ‘The Bends’ by sharing an unseen stay video of one among Thom Yorke‘s solo exhibits from the time.

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The VHS footage captures Yorke performing an acoustic solo present on the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, Canada on March 28, 1995.

“Listed below are some songs to assist your beer go down,” Yorke gives timidly as he begins taking part in.

The 25 minute video sees him carry out ‘(Good Dream)’, ‘Excessive and Dry’ ‘Road Spirit (Fade Out)’, ‘Faux Plastic Bushes’ and ‘Considering About You’.

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‘The Bends’ was Radiohead’s second album and helped propel them to even better heights. It marked their first time recording with Nigel Godrich, who has labored with them on each Radiohead album since. Godrich engineered the album, whereas John Leckie produced.

In addition to the aforementioned songs, it additionally spawned singles together with ‘Simply’, ‘My Iron Lung’ and ‘Planet Telex’.

Earlier this week, the band shaped a brand new authorized entity, suggesting they might be planning vital exercise in 2025.

On Monday (March 10), the band established a restricted legal responsibility partnership (LLP) with the title RHEUK25, one thing they’ve accomplished up to now when they’re about to announce a brand new album, tour or reissue.

LLPs enable Radiohead to function their enterprise affairs independently, with out counting on the framework of document labels and exterior corporations. No additional info has been shared by the band about what the authorized transfer might signify.

The band’s final album was ‘A Moon Formed Pool’, which was launched in Might 2016, simply months after the band registered the Daybreak Refrain LLP. Extra lately, they did the identical with the Spin With A Grin LLP, which got here six months earlier than the announcement of the ‘Child A Mnesia’ reissue in 2021, and the Self Assist Tapes LLP in 2022, forward of asserting the debut album by The Smile.

All 5 members of Radiohead – Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway – are listed as officers within the RHEUK25 LLP.

Radiohead have been working independently since parting methods with EMI/Parlophone after 2003’s ‘Hail To The Thief’. They based Xurbia Xendless in 2007 earlier than releasing ‘In Rainbows’ within the groundbreaking ‘pay what you need’ format by way of their web site. That album and subsequent releases have been dealt with in bodily codecs in partnership with XL Recordings.

The band have been characteristically coy about their future plans lately. Final 12 months, Yorke made headlines by saying he “actually doesn’t give a fuck” if followers need Radiohead to return. When requested by Australian outlet Double J about his ideas on hypothesis over the band’s future, he replied: “I’m not conscious of it and don’t actually give a flying fuck.”

“No offence to anybody and err, thanks for caring,” he continued. “However I believe we’ve earned the precise to do what is sensible to us with out having to elucidate ourselves or be answerable to anybody else’s historic concept of what we ought to be doing.”

That got here after bassist Colin Greenwood caught up with NME across the launch of his new picture e book How To Disappear, and opened up concerning the band’s reunion rehearsals over the summer time.

Colin mentioned on the time: “We obtained collectively in the summertime only for a few days and simply ran by way of all of the songs and picked up the place we left off in 2018. It was actually enjoyable and good to see everybody. We have been going to do three or 4 days however knocked it on the top after two as a result of it was high-quality and we might nonetheless do it. My brother mentioned that we’d simply want a few weeks’ rehearsal and we might go on the highway, no downside.

“Past that, everybody’s heads are focussed on ending up what they’ve been doing. My brother has been unwell and remains to be recovering. Rehearsals have been actually enjoyable and amicable, although. We rehearsed on this studio known as The Church the place we ended up ending up ‘OK Laptop’, so the final time I used to be there was 1996 recording the bass for ‘Airbag’. There we have been, again in Crouch Finish. It was nice, however past that get collectively, I’m positive we’ll get collectively and make plans – however for what, I don’t know.”

Earlier than then, his brother Jonny shared with NME that he discovered the rehearsals “enjoyable and pure”, however went on so as to add that there are “no plans” for something Radiohead-related in 2025, because the members are targeted on “particular person initiatives”.