Radiohead. Yes, I'm still on about them. My full, double-vinyl, double-CD, beautifully, presented seventh Radiohead album arrived today, and I've been listening almost non-stop to the second CD (which wasn't available as a download like the main album). I was slightly worried that this second CD would just be the shite bits that were left out of the main album, but instead this is a brilliant, cohesive, standalone, well thought-out mini-album with at least three tracks that were clearly put on this CD because they belonged there stylistically rather than because they weren't good enough for the main album. I'd go so far as to say that CD2 is better than CD1, although why compare them when you can play them back-to-back? I'll do that when the time is right.
At least three quarters of my band are meeting up this weekend for a second shot at recording music on a canal boat. OK, so it didn't work before and this time around we have a day less to get things done, no material pre-recorded and a chronic shortage of heat and daylight, but we also have the experience of how not to go about this stuff, not to mention a fully battery-operated recording set-up. With only two acoustic guitars and some maracas, I doubt we'll reach the sonic brilliance of CD2's "Down Is The New Up" (menacing, apocalyptic strings and creepy piano) or "Bangers + Mash" (funk-rock gone wonderfully, manically wrong), but who knows, maybe we'll move a step closer to next year's much-anticipated second Ekkeko album which, for reference, currently looks something like this:
1.Stuck
2.For Disco Use Only
3.Waits
4.Ascend/Transcend
5.Nefyn Bay
6.Holmes' Song
These titles won't mean anything to anyone except myself, but I doubt it will look anything like that in a year anyway so it doesn't matter. Now it's bedtime.
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