Radiohead’s Thom Yorke teams up with Red Hot Chilli Peppers, REM, Mauro Refosco and producer Nigel G
29 September, 2009
by: Spoonfed Team
In an intriguing collaboration, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has announced plans to work with Flea from Red Hot Chilli Peppers, REM collaborator Joey Waronker and Brazillian musician Mauro Refosco.
The team have been meeting up to experiment with material from the Radiohead lead singer’s first solo album, ‘The Eraser’, released back in 2006. The album debuted at no. 3 on the UK album charts and no. 2 on the US Billboard 200.
The collaboration was announced on Yorke’s blog ‘Dead Air Space’, where he stated ‘in the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting a band together for fun to play ‘The Eraser’ stuff live and the new songs etc.. to see if it could work!’
So far the group have only announced two dates, playing the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on the 4th and 5th October.
The line-up, who are joined by producer Nigel Godrich (sometimes considered the sixth member of Radiohead), haven’t yet been given a name nor confirmed whether they will continue to play as a band thereafter.
Yorke has a reputation for pushing boundaries with wild experimentation, as a lot of Radiohead’s work testifies. It’s not clear whether the new band will write their own material or just play from their existing catalogue, but who knows what strange new sound they could come up with.
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