You’re in luck, good folk of Suffolk (and beyond)! Thom Yorke is either bored, flat broke, or worried that Radiohead is becoming less cool than Animal Collective or something, because he’s willed himself onto the bill at this year’s Latitude Festival, taking place July 16-19 in jolly old Henham Park... in cheery old Southwold... in merry old Sunrise Coast... in jovial old Suffolk... in ebullient old England.
Anyway, rejoice sinners, because the Radiohead frontman hasn’t played a giant public solo set like this one since the release of The Eraser (TMT Review), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’ll most likely play that “Cymbal Rush” song that the kids are always talking about, and probably some Panda Bear covers.
Specifically, Yorke’s solo set is scheduled to be immaculately conceived on the... good-humored old Obelisk Arena stage at noon on Sunday, July 19, and is scheduled to be completed before the last petal falls off of some enchanted rose somewhere. Ticket information for the festival itself, including whoever the hell else is playing there, is available at the Latitude Festival website.
OH and the man's main band released a bunch of their stuff digitally through their own W.A.S.T.E. store!!!! So if you've been on the lookout for a non-solid copy of the "ehh..." second disc of In Rainbows, the "mmm..." aforementioned Eraser, or the "ohhh!!!" score to There Will Be Blood, it's officially time to go Radionuts.
