Radiohead: OK Computer play live on BBC this Friday
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How many times have we seen that picture in the last two weeks? More than plenty. Here, though, is some Radiohead news that thankfully doesn't involve Rainbows or boxsets.
Ok Computer, the band's revered 1997 longplayer, has inspired a radio play which is to air on BBC Radio 4 this Friday (19 Oct).
The play takes its name from the record and its storyline from interpretations of its 12 tracks; a story told of a man who wakes up in a hospital bed in Berlin with memory loss.
Details of his past emerge and he is taken back to Britain - but the man's plagued by doubts that the life he's been dropped back into is and was not his.
Intriguing?
The play's by Joel Horwood, Chris Perkins, Al Smith and Chris Thorpe and will be broadcast at 9pm on Radio 4. If you're reading this news story after the 19th, click here to listen again on the BBC's website.
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I have this play on CD RIGHT NOW!
My dad either sound engineered it or knows someone who did. I havnt listened to it yet.
Sounds like an episode of Monk..
...you know, the one where he suffers memory loss when he gets hit on the head and dumped in the back of a lorry. Wakes up in the middle of nowhere and the woman who used to play Jackie in Roseanne, leads him to believe he is her husband.
Classic stuff.
Four writers
And i'm guessing it's tedious! Too many cooks...?
Saying that, they're all experienced writers from the fringe circuit so it's not like something scrawled up by some overly enthusiastic hacks. Hmm.
Dunno if im allowed.
I'm not even sure if im supposed to have it. I'll put it up once it airs though.
Probably not
if yes_ has it already...
I just listened to about 10 minutes of it
it's quite odd, and so far has no relationship to radiohead at all.
Al Smith is an amazing writer.
He really loves Radiohead. Ive known him a couple of years and i whatever he's written will surely be class. He's 25 and shit hot.
i think he did
only mild at first but it got worse, thats how he became normal again. Actualy i completley made that up but i have seen it, i am cool..promise
...
Great another example of someone no-one has heard of producing a work tenuously linked to something people have heard of for exposure that is cheap and fleeting.
its on Radio Four you retard
its hardly a world of inane commerciallity
radiohead the musical?
this sounds shit
to be fair, though
Fringey theatre types aren't exactly household names... these guys have a fair track record as individuals.
Just wonder how this will turn out...
oh, and Stealthy;
I'm guessing we're overlooking Phil Selway and Johnny Greenwood doing that crap Cramps impression in one of the Harry Potter movies?
Erm ......
Why don't you change the photograph then?
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