A new online music show is launching this month, featuring live performances from Thom Yorke, The White Stripes and Four Tet.
The show, which is organised by acclaimed producer Nigel Godrich, Dilly Gent, James Chads and John Woollcombe, will be available through the fromthebasement.tv site and released as a download only.
The first show will see Thom Yorke performing new Radiohead songs from the band's next album. Further instalments will include The White Stripes playing several tracks and an improvised collaboration between Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid.
The first From The Basement show was filmed in high-definition at Maida Vale studios in London, with the live sound by producer Nigel Godrich. It will be available for download as of 18th December, costing £1.89 per show. The second show follows on February 2007.
Speaking about the show, Thom Yorke says: "From The Basement was exciting because it came from the desire to cut out the crap that lies between the music and the viewer. To get plugged straight into the mains. No producer director egos messing it up. The highlight for me was listening to Kieran and Steve Reid jamming as the tape started rolling."
Jack White adds: "I don't think a music program has recorded a performance on analog reel to reel in thirty years. It was beautifully filmed, and the sound quality makes a performance on a regular TV talk show sound like a wax cylinder recording. No host. Thank God."
Kieran Hebden says: "Everything was done to capture the music in the best possible way, rather than just to make snappy TV. It's not a live gig; it's something different - seeing musicians in a studio setting, not worrying about the audience. What a positive thing. Heavy analogue sounds, wonderfully filmed picture and a chance to see music performed in a way that is rarely seen."
Nigel Godrich of From The Basement comments: "I'm a sad fan trying to bring the magic back to music TV."
Dilly Gent then explains: "I just want to see artist's doing what they do best...perform. Not being an incidental feature in some magazine show and not being forced into embarrassed conversation."

http://angryape.com/news/2006/12/tho...ine-music-show

Thom Yorke, The White Stripes and Kieran Hebden are all set to feature in a new online music series.

The artists will play intimate sets for The Basement which will be available for download for £1.89 per show from December 18.

The first will star Thom Yorke performing songs from the new Radiohead album on the piano and Nigel Godrich helping out with the sound.

Kieren Hebden's performance will see him collaborate with drummer Steve Reid.

The shows will have no host and no studio audience.

Speaking about the show Thom Yorke said: "From The Basement was exciting because it came from the desire to cut out the crap that lies between the music and the viewer."

"To get plugged straight into the mains. No producer director egos messing it up. The highlight for me was listening to Kieran and Steve Reid jamming as the tape started rolling."

http://www.musicrooms.net/cm/live/templates/?a=3637&z=5

Radiohead singer debuts new songs on online music show

Two new Radiohead songs performed live by singer Thom Yorke became available for downloading on Tuesday, December 19th, at fromthebasement.tv. The web site is the location of a new online program called From The Basement, which features artists playing songs live in a London studio with no host and no audience. The show is the brainchild of producer Nigel Godrich, who has worked with Radiohead, Beck, U2 and others. Yorke performed the two songs, titled "Videotape" and "Down Is The New Up," on the show's debut episode, which premiered on Monday (December 18th).

Yorke said in a statement about the program, "From The Basement was exciting because it came from the desire to cut out the crap that lies between the music and the viewer...No producer director egos messing it up."

The debut show also featured a performance from the White Stripes.

Yorke, meanwhile, was cagey about whether the songs would appear on the next Radiohead album, which the band is currently recording. Responding to press reports that they would, Yorke wrote at the band's web site, "We don't know what will make it to the record, neither (does the press), neither do you. It drives me nuts the way people take it upon themselves to fluff stuff up like this."

The vocalist also wrote that the band was taking a break before resuming work on the album in January, and wished their fans a happy holiday.

http://www.therockradio.com/2006/12/...-songs-on.html

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