Tue, 25 August
Life on Earth Soundtrack
Life on EarthRead the press release for the cool story behind the sounds and music to the greatest natural history program
Colin
Sun, 23 August
These Are My Twisted Words in Austria
Mon, 17 August
These Are My Twisted Words
So here's a new song, called 'These Are My Twisted Words'.
We've been recording for a while, and this was one of the first we finished.
We're pretty proud of it.
There's other stuff in various states of completion, but this is one we've been practising, and which we'll probably play at this summer's concerts. Hope you like it.
Download the audio
here or torrent
here.
Jonny
Jonny in Oxon
Wed, 05 August
Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
"i am the only one that got through
the others died where ever they fell
it was an ambush
they came up from all sides
give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
i've seen devils coming up from the ground
i've seen hell upon this earth
the next will be chemical but they will never learn" Recently the last remaining UK veteran of the 1st world war Harry Patch died at the age of 111.
I had heard a very emotional interview with him a few years ago on the Today program on Radio4.
The way he talked about war had a profound effect on me.
It became the inspiration for a song that we happened to record a few weeks before his death.
It was done live in an abbey. The strings were arranged by Jonny.
I very much hope the song does justice to his memory as the last survivor.
It would be very easy for our generation to forget the true horror of war, without the likes of Harry to remind us.
I hope we do not forget.
As Harry himself said
"Irrespective of the uniforms we wore, we were all victims".
This morning the Today program played the song for the first time and now it is available to download from our website.
Please click here to download.The proceeds of this song will go to the British Legion.
To peace and understanding.
Thom
Thom and Jonny in the Abbey
Mon, 27 July
Merce Cunningham 1919 - 2009
We are very sad to hear about Merce Cunningham’s death yesterday, aged ninety.
Merce invited us to take part in his Split Sides project, in October 2003. It was a collaboration of music and dance, but one where each of the elements - set, costume,
choreography and music - were randomly combined, to create a performance around chance. He was very kind and hospitable, and invited us around to his apartment the night before the show. He showed us his computer program which generated random sequences of gesture and movement for wire-framed mannequins, like Kraftwerk’s Robots. He also showed us, the next night, that discipline and focus can create the space for an unexpected moment, when something new can suddenly exist: such a contrast to the scripted world of rock.
Tue, 21 July
Thom and Jonny and Drew in Ondes
Thu, 16 July
All for the best
Hi
there is a compilation coming out for Mark Mulcahy, he of the wonderful Miracle Legion fame and so on..
you can read all about it here>>>>
here pleaxsei have done a version of All For The Best with my brother Andy doing vocals with me!
you can listen to it at the above link.
Thom
Mon, 06 July
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH PRINTS WRONG HEADLINE
Contrary to a Sunday Telegraph headline this weekend, we are not setting up a record label. The credit for this venture goes to one of our managers, Brian Message and his company ATC.
Philip
Wed, 24 June
Office Chart (for Virgilio Anderson, instead of rain...)
This week I'm into first goes....and:
Bartok Violin Concerto No,1
Brahms 1st Symphony
Penderecki 1st Symphony
John Cage First Inerlude for Prepared Piano
Shostakovitch Piano Trio No. 1 in C Minor
Bartok First String Quartet
Debussy First (and last) string quartet (G Minor)
Ravel (ditto) in F
..are all ace
Jonny
Tue, 23 June
Nigel in the Studio
Thu, 18 June
Jonny in Check
Tue, 16 June
Thom in LA
Mon, 15 June
Tiny Vices Blog
Colin
Tue, 09 June
Digital Downloads
w.a.s.t.e are pleased to announce the unveiling of a new digital download area on the store. We are also pleased to announce that Disk 2 from In Rainbows is now available digitally for everyone who didn’t get a chance to purchase the Diskbox.
Please
click here to purchase:
In Rainbows – Radiohead
In Rainbows Disk 2 (exclusive to w.a.s.t.e) - Radiohead
The Eraser – Thom Yorke
There Will Be Blood – Jonny Greenwood
Thank you,
All at w.a.s.t.e.
Sat, 06 June
Office Chart
(Or, according to my itunes playlist: "My hippity-hop tape for Ori, who doesn't have/doesn't like this kind of thing"......)
Follow the Leader - Eric B & Rakim
Strange Eyes - RZA/Ghost Dog soundtrack
Air Hoodlum - Public Enemy (he's a basketball fan....)
Take Notice - J Dilla
Deez Nuuuts - Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg
Zip Code - RZA/Black Knights
I Left My Wallet... - A Tribe Called Quest
Testin' Me - Dudley Perkins
Bring The Noise - Public Enemy
Reunited - Wu Tang Clan
Wild - J Dilla
Don't Believe the Hype - Public Enemy
Microphone Fiend - Eric B. and Rakim
Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called Quest
.....wonder if it'll convert him?
Jonny
Music+physics=John Matthias.
Don't let the Stupid define the Age.
Tim Hunkin's inventions, under the pier at Southwold. I keep trying to go there but not quite making it. Maybe you'll have better luck. Go to Ipswich and turn right.
depression is not fussy about who it hits. and feeling isolated and powerless doesnt help especially when yer young and all. this site has lots of people sharing their experiences which is what us humans need in order to cope.
Great dance music site, lots of old articles and features, dj mixes
Found this extraordinary shop in Brighton last week. It's well worth a visit...
“The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers ‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.”
maybe it's about time the likes of Apple took responsibility for the manufacture of their products, as they're supposed to be so cutting edge.
As we're lifelong contributors to 'anthrophony' we're pretty culpable....but still, fascinating studies.
Look to the stars!
The Chestnut Tree Café. ...it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
In Rainbows video competition
Plastic. Is. Everywhere.
Bhopal was the worst industrial disaster in history. A leak of methyl isocynate killed 20,000, injured millions more and Union Carbide... um, er...
THE REVOLUTION WILL (NOT) BE TELEVISED
the artists have no recollection of most of this.
There Will Be Blood
film info for the UK
ken korda as Adam Buxton on Scotch Mist
Jonny Greenwood: 'There Will Be Blood' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Available from Tuesday 18th December.
Vote vote vote! Mmm... participatory democracy...
As they say, we don't live in the Information Age, or even the Oil Age. We all have to eat. We live in the Agriculture Age.
Download books on to your Blackberry instead of using it to send email, 'browse' the 'web' or any of the other tedious business-related 'apps'. It'll still look like you're really really busy.
This is great if you should be doing something boring for someone else.
Man, I couldn't even read this, it looked so scary. But maybe you can? Maybe it has a happy ending?
Fascinating, horrifying, beautiful photography.
Put that important work aside. Slack off. Play this, it's great.
Well-written, urgent and frequently very funny. Featuring the now-legendary 'Crap Arrest of the Week'.
Bored? Read a magazine. No celebrity cellulite in this one, I'm afraid.
If only. People are beginning to question the idea of filling our streets with fast-moving metal objects that smell bad and make those driving them behave worse.
Fill 'er up. While you're at it, check the dipstick thing.
Derrick May on Strings of Life
Messiaen's bird song imitations along with field recordings.
Simply incredible. Housing estates are the new up.
I found this when I was looking for pictures of housing estates. The Typologies are fantastic.
Dedication's whatchooneed.
Send your old computer somewhere more useful/less harmful than the local dump. Turns out Apple computers have a terrible environmental impact. Doh.
i want the T shirt
An excellent independent liberal reporter on the Middle East.
Why don't you switch off your television set and do something less boring instead?
Anyone annoyed by the occasional use of badly-strung together Esperanto might like this. On the other hand, sub est pli nova supreni, as any fule kno.
Art assignments, made by 'the general public'.
A photography site that is about having fun