This is wrong on so many levels. Someone correct this or ramifications will be distributed: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/chieftan

Apr 1, 2012

@ChieftanMews: This is wrong on so many levels. Someone correct this or ramifications will be distributed: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/chieftan

Chieftan Mews interrupted his Q&A with a link to Websters Online Dictionary (Not to be mistaken with the official Merriam-Webster Website ) where they provided the following definition of ‘Chieftan’

“Chieftan” is a common misspelling or typo for: chieftain, chieftains, chief tan.

Common Expressions: chieftan

Expressions : Definition
Chieftan Mews : Chieftan Mews is an english actor employed by Radiohead to present The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time. He is currently on the run and believed to be hiding out in Tunisia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Common Expressions: chieftan
Expressions : Definition
Chieftan Mews : Chieftan Mews is an english actor employed by Radiohead to present The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time. He is currently on the run and believed to be hiding out in Tunisia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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The entry for Chieftan was added by Philip M. Parker the editor and creator of the Websters Online Dictionary, and while no references are linked it’s possible he had been reading AtEase which had a news item on the 15th of December 2004 stating:

A recent report indicated that Chieftan may have been spotted in Tunisia….

The report refers to http://www.ChieftanMews.com which in 2004 was owned by the band and appeared to have contained various messages from Chieftan Mews before redirecting to http://www.Radiohead.tv

Since 2009 ChieftanMews.com is again an active URL but doesn’t appear to be owned by Radiohead or anyone associated with them.

While no correction has been made in the past 10 years to update the fact that Chieftan Mews is not a actor nor employed by Radiohead the nature of the web means that those ‘facts’ have now been cited widely online with QWika and tvwiki where someone has added:

Chieftan Mews is an english actor employed by Radiohead to present The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time. While talking, his mouth often moves and rolls in unnatural ways, leading some to believe he is not human. He is currently on the run and believed to be hiding out in Tunisia.

Throughout the filming of “Radiohead.tv”, Singer Thom Yorke and presenter Chieftan Mews apparently got in a fist fight of sorts. According to Yorke, “Mews (Chieftan) just grabbed me during teatime and proceeded to scream into my face about paying him his damn money”. At this point, York responded by kicking Mews in the face, resulting in a broken nose. The flurry of punches that ensued by both men had to be broken up by Producer Nigel Godrich.

While Mew’s instructs someone to correct the errors unlike Wikipedia the Websters Online Dictionary is not editable by just anyone, instead edits are made by emailing the editor. Being a Hotmail address it’s possible the email no longer works today.

In December 2010 Tunisia hit headlines around the world due to massive protests helped in part by social networking bringing about a democratic revolution inspiring neighboring countries including Egypt and Libya in what came to be known as the Arab Spring movement. On the 8th of February 2011 Ed O’Brien posted his own feelings towards The Dignity Revolution (as the Tunisian revolution had come to be called) on Dead Air Space adding:

What have twitter and facebook ever done for us?

Obviously, keeping in touch with everyone but I have to say I have become increasingly excited over the last 3 months about the possibilities of this form of communication.Yes I am very slow out of the blocks. It’s in the arena of public protest that it seems twitter and facebook are increasingly the means by which popular movements throughout the world are able to come together and mobilise.

I have been so moved by the peaceful Jasmine revolution in Tunisia; The anti-Government demonstrations centred on Tahrir Square in Cairo.. Social networking has helped facilitate the freedom to assemble peacefully and express oneself. Equally in Britain it seems to be having a similar effect in helping essential protests being organised by students and groups such as UK Uncut against the Government’s ill thought out cuts … Well done those people!
Ed

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Chieftan Mews changed his Twitter display picture from clipclopclipclop.jpg to ccccc.jpg on April 1st prior to his second Q&A

The image shows a picture of a Tamiya 1:35 Scale Model Kit for a Chieftain Mk.5 Tank:

Tamiya is a Japanese company famous for their plastic model kits and accessories. Founded in 1946 they celebrated 50 years of producing scale models of military units in 2012.

The image appears to have been taken from ModelCars.com where the kit is on sale for $20.60 USD (Plus postage).

Tamiya provide a very detailed history of the Tank on the site:

The Chieftain Tank is one of the best known of the present generation of battlefield weapons, and is one of the most heavily armoured and armed fighting behicles in service anywhere today. It has not been without its detractors or critics, however, and there has been a running debate by military commentators for several years past on the relative merits of the British Chieftain Tank compared with the main battle tanks of other great military powers- the United States, Soviet Russia, France and West Germany – whose present equivalent designs afford a fasinating contrast with Chieftain in many key aspects.

The Chieftain, however, was developed as a result of British tank experience in World War II and after, and reflects the priorities which British tank men felt to be the most important terms of firepower, protection and mobility. British tank development in World War II resulted in the famous Centurion, which first appeared in 1945 in the closing weeks of the war. The Centurion, together with the Soviet T-34/85, and German Panther, represented the culmination of thinking (arising from actual experience) which pointed the need for a “universal” tank had, meanwhile, been disturbed by the appearance of the Soviet Josef Stalin II tank in 1945, with a powerful 122mm gun.

In the Immediate post-war years it became clear that Soviet Russia and her East European allies (later the Warsaw Pact powers) posed the greatest threat to Western Europe in any future conflict, and this led, subsequently, to the setting up of NATO. If war broke out, much of the initial fighting at least would take place in Europe, notably in Northern Germany, and Britain’s armoured divisions were either located in or earmarked for deployement to Germany. The backbone of the Soviet armoured divisions in the 1950’s was the formidable JS-III and its T-1- derivative, both with the 122mm gun, which could out shoot the 20 pdr. (84 mm)gun of the early service versions of Centurion. To strengthen the firepower of the Centurion, therefore, the British developed an introduced a “heavy tank gun”, the conqueror with a 120mm gun specifically to match the Stalin. The Centurion at this time was classed as a “medium gun tank”. The Conqueror was unsatisfactory in many ways; it was very heavy, noisy, relatively slow, and made an extra logistic liability for relatively few vehicles. By 1066 the Conqueror was withdrawn from service and an up gunned Centurion with 105 mm gun was in service.

You can read the rest over at ModelCars.com.

The ccccc is probably for 5 x Chieftain being that it was a Mk.5 model.

While Mk.5 is similar to Mk1 and Mk2 from the 2nd disc of In Rainbows the abbreviation is short for ‘Mark’ and used in a number of different fields including the British Military, Cars and Musical Instruments.

In 2009 Radiohead donated Mk2 for a ad for the National Coalition for the Homeless, you can watch it on Youtube here.

Q&A With Chieftan Mews 2012.

Q&A With Chieftan Mews 2012.

Well as promised Mew’s took to twitter early this morning (or in the middle of the day/evening depending where you where) answering 23 questions in all.

First however he changed his twitter profile picture to ccccc.jpg:

Which shows the box for a scale model of a British Army Chieftain Mk.5 Tank.

The following is a full transcript of his tweets from tonight, (note that time is in EST GMT+10).

Unlike last year Chieftan Mews replied to each question directly instead of retweeting them first. This is because Twitter now keeps conversations intact so others can read tweets in context.

1.
12:47 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @vematias I don’t work with “them”. I have a few things I’m working on. Things in the hopper. Consulting gigs. I’m doing just fancy, why?

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews are you going to sell some stuff again? Why not any appearance since the webcast?

2.
12:49 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @FernandoDante He’ll have to ‘shed’ more light on that to you himself. Contact me for his access to his ghost twitter account.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews what made Ed realize his new haircut wasn’t working?

3.
12:52 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @inrainbows08 The drinks are causing you the headaches. Switzerland today. Withdraw completely and they will go away.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews Q#1 your location?

4.
12:52 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @CrownClown Best question of the day, thank you.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews

5.
12:53 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @wintrygrave I’m going to live tweet the Swansea game.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews Any plans for April Fool’s Day?

6.
12:56 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @FullTimeFutbol Not at all. It sucks out our souls. It takes us away from freedom. It gives us perception, not reality. Spurs are tired.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews do you enjoy the interenet?

7.
12:56 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @TheEvilJam Ask more questions in your daily life and you’ll be surprised of the answers. Leave me be. And be persistent.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews Will you answer if we question?

8.
12:57 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@inkybrown …………….

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews Sir, are you still stuck in the ziggurat? I thought I saw you in some rainbow lit bottles behind a stage… or didn’t i?

9.
12:57 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @agenericreality Someone was sent a sex toy for some art? You are being nasty. Don’t make me block you.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews was the 12″ for the winner of the drawing ever sent out

10.
12:58 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @Ims_Menoo FALSE. ALL FALSE

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews did you see our websites? http://www.imsmenoo.com / http://www.ersmenoo.com

11.
12:58 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @twisted_words Incapable. We all are incapable of it. It’s manufactured.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews Have you ever been in love?

12.
12:58 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @ElMuggs Me me. My my.

Reply to:

G’day @ChieftanMews, if I may ask what a Rubberneck is and the best way to avoid them? #soundsratherdirty

13.
12:59 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @foreigntoken ♥

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews Hellow! what’s a dream you’ve had- lofty, lucid or otherwise? ?

14.
1:00 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @vematias PJ did, I tweeted this months ago.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews who won the contest last year?

15.
1:00 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @bilsbyd Very good question. Be at ease with yourself first.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews Ayahuasca or Peyote? aka DMT or Mescaline?

16.
1:01 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @ElMuggs @StanleyDonwood botched that one. This is why I have distanced myself from “them”

Reply to:

…also @ChieftanMews if I could be so bold, your minions in Melbourne gave us this with TUS, what was it for? http://pic.twitter.com/1Pb7eYo5

17.
1:02 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @jeffscanlon78 See more. Smell more. Taste more. Instinct more.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews How do you cure hearing damage?

18.
1:04 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @ro32x Poems. Writing lengthy UN resolutions. Collecting interest on siphoned monies. Eating. Sleeping. Thinking about the internet.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews What do you generally do when you’re not communicating via the interweb?

19.
1:05 AM – 2 Apr 12

@FakeMBrundle Are you the real Brundle?

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews Is there a Mrs Mews?

20.
1:05 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@Aquarelleblog Lost footage is a pattern with “them”.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews Hi Chief.Are there any plans for “My Showbiz Life” interview follow ups with the boys? I always wondered why Ed kept “honking”

21.
1:12 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@xDeeJayBee You may have already and not known of it. I’m known as a slapper.

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews What should one say if he or she were to ever bump into you? And how would they know it was really you?

22.
1:13 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@CrownClown A serious answer to any question you followed up with. The answer to your follow up question is: NOTHING

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews what do I win?

1:19 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: This is wrong on so many levels. Someone correct this or ramifications will be distributed: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/chieftan

23.
1:21 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: @radioheadperu In some recycled bottle container en route to the “Pacific Northwest”

Reply to:

@ChieftanMews feliz 32 de marzo, señor mews. where are you hiding now?

Mew’s finished the Quiz with the following message:

1:22 AM – 2 Apr 12 via web

@ChieftanMews: OVER. DONE WITH. MASSIVELY DISAPPOINTED WITH YOU ALL. ASK BETTER QUESTIONS. THINK HARDER AND ASK AGAIN NEXT YEAR.

So looks like we may well be seeing Mew’s again next March 32nd. Hopefully with enough time for fans to think up some new questions more of his liking.

Update:
On April 2nd Chieftan Mews has deleted all his Q&A tweets. It also appears that he’s returned his profile image to clipclopclipclop.jpg

Oui Emil, yes, Mañana es 32 de Marzo. Q&A questions due 24 hours from now Kiritimati time. I want your freedoms.

Mar 31st, 2012: 12:43pm EST

@ChieftanMews: Oui Emil, yes, Mañana es 32 de Marzo. Q&A questions due 24 hours from now Kiritimati time. I want your freedoms.

Mew’s tweeted this in reply to Emil’s tweet reminding him that Tomorrow is the 32nd of March:

@EmilioGuardado: Mañana es 32 de Marzo! ( @ChieftanMews )

Last year on March 32nd (April 1st) Chieftan Mews ran a Twitter Q&A with Fans over in which he answered 18 questions.

With tomorrow marking exactly a year since that day Chieftan Mew’s replied with news that he is going to do another Q&A this year.

He provided the following deadline to have your questions tweeted to him by:

24 hours from now Kiritimati time.

Kiritimati is another name for Christmas Island and suggests that all questions should be received by 6:43:00 AM LINT (UTC/GMT +14 hours )

‘I want your freedoms.’ suggests that he wants our time/attention.

“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncmg3bxtTB0

May 15, 2011:

@ChieftanMews “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncmg3bxtTB0

One of two links to Youtube Chieftan Mews sent out on the same day both linked Youtube videos of BBC Test Card F titled ‘BBC Test Card F (1978)’.

“The time now very nearly 3 o clock, the next program on bbc1 Songs of Praise follows at 3.15 after a trade test transmission…”

A Youtube commenter names the piece of music as ‘Finally, swing-time’ by Pit Fontana’s New Sound. According to TestcardCircle.uk that song was used during the 2nd half of 1978 to early 1979.

Mew’s tweeted a 2nd Testcard after this one ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6SmOBxP9-g ; Test 2 ), however the second tweet was not deleted until the 20th of March 2012. You can read more about it, and the history of Test Card F here.

Songs of Praise is a weekly religious program first broadcast in 1961 early on Sunday mornings. Consisting of church hymn’s it still runs today and is broadcast in a number of countries.

In 2007 Adam Buxton uploaded a parody of Songs of Praise providing his own subtitles to the program with amusing results:

Adam Buxton is British DJ and Comedian who in 2007 helped Radiohead with their Thumbs_Down webcast to celebrate the release of In Rainbows.

A fan of the band he wrote a nice long detailed blog post about the whole thing here on his website, and later in 2008 entered his own (rather hilarious) remix for the Reckoner remix competition:

Adam Buxton Reckoner Remix

On the 29th of November 2011 Adam Buxton ran a live BUG Music Video’s special evening focusing on Radiohead’s career, during which he screened some behind the scenes footage of the recording of Thumbs_Down, Previous video clips from the band and a interview with Jonny and Colin. Described as a ‘one off’ Adam repeated the event in Los Angeles on February 2nd 2012.

( Source : Yelp.com )

A Silly Blog carries a nice review and description of the event Here.

One of the most interesting bits of trivia from the program refers to a In Rainbows Scrapbook mentioned in the Bug Program notes as a ‘proposed but ultimately unreleased DVD ‘scrapbook’ from the In Rainbows period’.

(Source: Attributed to Ian Davies by Auntie Nubbins of A Silly Blog )

Adam Buxton is on twitter as AdamRealBuxton and is one of the accounts Chieftan Mews follows on Twitter.

#8 of 10: http://t.co/IAEHtG1 Have you really considered that you have been lied to constantly since you were born? (Expires Aug 25 or so)

Aug 18, 2011:

@ChieftanMews: #8 of 10: http://t.co/IAEHtG1 Have you really considered that you have been lied to constantly since you were born? (Expires Aug 25 or so)

The 3rd of a series of 10 weekly questions asked by Chieftan Mews.

In this case it came with a link to The King of Limbs – Live from The Basement on the Offical Radiohead Youtube Channel which the band have been using since 2005 to host their videoclips and some webcast material for In Rainbows and The King of Limbs. They also uploaded all of the remixes from TKOL-RMX 1234567 and The Daily Mail/Staircase along with The King of Limbs on the day the album was released in stores.

Radiohead reported on Dead Air Space that there had been a issue getting The King of Limbs – From The Basement shown in the UK, apologizing for the delay on July 20th as “the original broadcaster decided not to show it”.

On June 5th 2011 BBC Worldwide Music Television announced that they had signed a deal to be the international distributor for The King of Limbs – Live From the Basement.

Their press release gave the following details:

BBC Worldwide Music Television has signed a deal with Radiohead to distribute internationally a new and exclusive live performance of Radiohead’s eighth album, ‘The King of Limbs’.

Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live From The Basement is a 55-minute performance from one of the most successful and critically acclaimed acts of their generation, who have sold over 30 million albums worldwide. The programme will feature the notoriously elusive band performing the entirety of their celebrated new album in a studio setting with some additional behind the scenes material. It is scheduled to be the first time that the grammy-award winners are captured on camera this year.

The King of Limbs album was released digitally in February 2011 and physically at the end of March 2011, yet this exclusive performance will be the first time the band will have played this collection of songs in public. The band will be performing for acclaimed music show ‘From the Basement’, the brain child of production genius Nigel Godrich, who has either engineered or produced all of Radiohead’s albums since The Bends and has worked with a variety of international acts including Paul McCartney, U2, R.E.M and Air.

Having launched the title at MIPTV, BBC Worldwide has already received pre-sale offers for a number of major territories and expects to have a substantial network of broadcasters in place for its premiere.

Salim Mukaddam, VP Music Television at BBC Worldwide said, “It is a real honour to be working with Radiohead on this project. Radiohead are a band that rarely performs for television, but when they do, it’s a moment to savour. There is already huge anticipation for this performance and we’re delighted that they’ve decided to work with us at BBC Worldwide, confirming our position as market leaders in Music Television. As a fan I cannot wait to see these beautiful songs brought to life in this programme.”

Bryce Edge of Courtyard Management, Radiohead’s management company said, “This will be Radiohead’s first collaboration with BBC Worldwide and the band are excited at the prospect of having their first live performance of ‘The King of Limbs’ broadcast around the world . The band will be filmed and recorded by the From The Basement team, which includes Nigel Godrich their long time producer, Dilly Gent ,who commissioned many of the memorable Radiohead videos and Grant Gee who filmed the Radiohead documentary ‘Meeting People is Easy'”

Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement becomes available to international broadcasters in June and is embargoed for broadcast until 1st July 2011. The programme is filmed in HD, will have no audience and no presenter – just a rare opportunity to see an intimate performance from one of the greatest bands in the world.

( Source: BBC.co.uk )

On the 20th of July BBC Worldwide America announced that rights had been sold to broadcast the performance on the MTV Network in America.

The BBC Worldwide Blog carried a piece the next day written by Salim Mukaddam the Vice President of BBC Worldwide Music Television about the project:

Last year I had the opportunity to bring together my personal passion and professional life when I met with Radiohead’s management, Bryce Edge and Chris Hufford. You could not wish to meet two more welcoming, co-operative, professional and knowledgeable people. Both Chris and Bryce instantly saw the potential that a partnership with BBC Worldwide could deliver. However, any project was obviously going to be dependent on the band – thankfully the band was interested and had a project in mind.

Radiohead launched their new album ‘The King of Limbs’ in February and from that point everything seemed to happen at light speed. The band wanted to work with their long time producer Nigel Godrich. He is one of the team responsible for ‘From The Basement’ – an incredible music show that sets the benchmark for quality in music television. The band’s concept was to perform the whole of their new album for our TV project…

…The result is a beautiful fifty five minute journey into the world of Radiohead. The King of Limbs is a stunning album in itself, but seeing the band bring these songs to life is a joy to behold. The full programme is coming to a TV screen near you soon, with confirmed broadcasts on Palladia in the USA, Canal + in Spain, Fuji TV in Japan, MultiShow in Brazil and SuperChannel in Canada.

(Source: BBCWorldwide Blog)

To date Radiohead – Live from the Basement never made it to television in the UK despite broadcasts occurring in other countries such as Spain, America, Canada, Japan, Brazil and Australia. The BBC Claims that this was due to them being ‘unable to find a broadcast partner’ for the UK even with the BBC having their own broadcasting network in that region.

The ‘lie’ statement from Mews refers to the fact that the copy of The King of Limbs – Live From The Basement uploaded to Youtube was described as ‘in full’ in the Youtube Comments, Chieftan Mews had previously claimed on July 12th that the version broadcast was missing footage of Supercollider ( @nigelgod that buck, took me out of the final cut so I took Supercollider & some juicy footage before being banished to the Zigg. Stuck.Help ).

On February 3rd 2012 AustinLBrock uploaded the full recording of The King of Limbs – Live From The Basement to Youtube with the permission of the band’s management and BBC Worldwide. Unlike the original version uploaded by the band this included the footage of Supercollider from the Bluray and DVD that the band released on the 9th of November 2011.

Mew’s later retweeted a link to the video from AustinLBrock ( RT: @AustinLBrock: [1080p] Radiohead – The King Of Limbs From The Basement [Full Show + Supercollider] #Radiohead #ThomYorke http://t.co/tD0arRGD ).

We’d love to hear what answers other people sent to Mew’s ‘quiz’!
Let us know in the comments or email muggs@ersmenoo.com.

This steamy footage needs more viewing: http://youtu.be/brcpslv_6O4

Mar 14, 2012

@ChieftanMews:This steamy footage needs more viewing: http://youtu.be/brcpslv_6O4

Mew’s tweeted this along with a link to the clip for OCDC from the new album by the same name by Get The Blessing suggesting that it was deserving of more views.

The Video has the following description on Youtube:

Uploaded by thisistheblessing on Feb 21, 2012

The new album ‘OCDC’ by Get The Blessing out 5th March on Naim Jazz Records

Preorder your copy HERE
Download iTunes EXCLUSIVE version – http://itunes.apple.com/gb/preorder/oc-dc/id501244309

Video by John Minton (Mintonfilm.co.uk)
http://www.gettheblessing.co.uk

Get The Blessing is a Bristol based jazz rock quartet formed in 2000 by Jim Barr and Clive Deamer who last year joined Radiohead as a additional drummer to perform material from The King of Limbs live. OCDC is their third album. Their previous albums are ‘All is Yes’ and ‘Bugs in Amber’ which the band released under the shorter name of ‘The Blessing’.

( Photo from: All About Jazz.com )

Like Phillip Selway it seems Clive Deamer can hold his own as a singer with the band releasing a exclusive version of Bugs In Amber on Youtube titled Moot that features Clive Deamer’s lead vocals.

Clive also has been providing backing vocals on Cut A Hole, one of the new Radiohead songs debuted during the American leg of the 2012 Tour.

If you’re in the UK you can catch the band playing on the following dates, although it appears they’ve got a different drummer due to Clive Deamer being on tour with Radiohead:

22/Mar/2012 – Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK
23/Mar/2012 – NCEM, York, UK
24/Mar/2012 – Kazimier, Liverpool, UK
28/Mar/2012 – Hare and Hounds, Birmingham, UK
29/Mar/2012 – Boileroom, Guildford, UK
03/Apr/2012 – Ronnie Scott’s, London, UK
04/Apr/2012 – Ronnie Scott’s, London, UK

You can find OCDC along with their previous albums on iTunes or buy it direct from their website here for 11 Pounds or 12 Pounds for postage outside the UK.

Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Collaboration Out Now; “Carries a Powerful Impact,” Says @MusicOMH http://bit.ly/zESEPR

Mar 14, 2012

RT: @NonsuchRecords: Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Collaboration Out Now; “Carries a Powerful Impact,” Says @MusicOMH http://bit.ly/zESEPR

Mew’s retweeted this from Nonsuch Records who are responsible for the release of the recent album by Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood. Nonsuch have previously released Jonny’s other classical work including the soundtrack to There Will Be Blood and Norwegian Wood.

The link is to information about the record dated the 13th of March 2012. The day before Mews retweeted it.

The new album featuring works by Krzysztof Penderecki—”Poland’s godfather of the musical avant-garde” (Independent)—paired with those they inspired by Jonny Greenwood is out now on Nonesuch Records. On the album are Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and Polymorphia (for 48 strings) and Greenwood’s Popcorn Superhet Receiver and 48 Responses to Polymorphia, all performed by the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra, with Penderecki conducting his pieces and Marek Moś conducting Greenwood’s. “The results are ear-tingling,” says NPR. “What we hear on this album is a meeting of two artistic visionaries connected in a real dialogue.”

(Source: NonSuch )

Yesterday Jonny Greenwood posted to Dead Air Space that Penderecki is coming to London this week to play material from the album live.

Jonny writes:

Penderecki is coming to London this week, with the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra . They’re going to play the music on the recording we’ve just released together.

To hear him conduct Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and Polymorphia with this wonderful Polish orchestra is a really magical experience, so if you’re in London on Thursday, perhaps you’d like to come along…..

He includes a photo of the orchestra rehearsing and picture of what appears to be his original notation for one of the pieces:

The New York Times is carrying a great feature piece about Jonny titled ‘Radiohead’s Runaway Guitarist’ which you can read here.

NCR was providing a free stream of the album however it’s no longer available, you can order it from Nonsuch for $13.00 for just the MP3 or $14.00 for FLAC or CD+MP3

“Off The Grid. Into The Woods.”

Mew’s has deleted almost all his tweets again.

Chieftan Mew’s twitter page as of the 18th of March 2012:

This might be to mark the end of the first leg of Radiohead’s 2012 Tour which wrapped up in Phoenix, Arizona on the 15th or it could be for some other reason entirely.

You can read all his deleted tweets, along with a complete record of every tweet known here. along with a annotated version of his current tweets here.

He’s also updated his Twitter Location to “Off The Grid. Into The Woods.” and his twitter display picture back to his original green one with the file name clipclopclipclop.jpg

Off the Grid is a term used for not being outside of the electrical grid either though providing your own power or simply living without it all together. While popular with people aiming for a more sustainable lifestyle it’s also a expression used for falling out of the modern world, usually with the aim of getting back to nature.

Mew’s clearly is aiming for the second as he returns to the woods, he’s used this expression before in terms of returning to the forest/woods to announce a period of silence followed by little twitter activity nor news from the band.

clipclopclipclop is a reference to the end of Episode 3 of The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time:

“What is Fear? Fear is the Clip Clop of Police Horses.
Clip clop, clip clop, clip clop.
Sleep well.”

Freak monkeys with mediocre tunes.. New band concept.

Mar 12, 2012:

@nigelgod: Highlight of the tour so far… Being picketed by westboro baptist church this evening.. Hoorah! yfrog.com/nts5nrfj

@nigelgod: Freak monkeys with mediocre tunes.. New band concept. http://yfrog.com/es2pnaoj

While yes the focus of this blog is on the tweets of Chieftan Mew’s we couldn’t let these two tweets from Nigel Godrich go by, in one of the stranger stories to come out of Radiohead’s current tour the show in Kansas City makes the very first by the band to receive a picketing by the Westboro Baptist Church a organisation lead by Fred Phelps that calls Topeka, Kansas home and is infamous for picketing funerals of former military servicemen, schools and other events with homophobic hate messages.

Nigel links the following photo of the protest with his first tweet:

In 2009 the group where blocked from visiting the UK on grounds of inciting hatred. This is probably the reason for the anti-UK placards.

In recent years it seems the church have set their sights on picketing concerts, Last year The Foo Fighters where picketed at the same venue and took to performing a impromptu set on the back of a truck in response.

While in the WBC defense The Foo Fighters had recently released a song titled ‘Hot Buns’ featuring a video of the band as naked homosexual hillbilly’s their reasons for picketing Radiohead is a little.. ‘odd’ comparing Radiohead to a circus monkey and calls them “Freak monkey’s with mediocre tunes.” no.. seriously..

Nigel links the following screenshot taken from the WBC website to his 2nd tweet to prove it:

Interestingly they accuse the band of being ‘focused on lightness’ which puts them rather at odds with the overall view in the press of Radiohead being a overly ‘serious’ band. Maybe they took offense to the Lotus Flower videoclip or mistook the title of Creep as ‘Freak’? Either way fans have pointed to the protest as proof that the band have ‘made it’ in America.