Unlike at past solo performances, when Thom and Jonny would bring a very small subset of their full touring setup, for their performance in Macerata the pair brought nearly all of their personal rigs from the 2017 tour, with it mounted in the same racks and resting on the same keyboard stands as for their last gig a month ago. The only gear-related surprise at the performance was the use of an Ableton Push 2 to supply beats on half a dozen songs.
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Ableton Push 2 + Apple Macbook Pro (4th Generation) running Ableton Live The Push 2 was used to turn control beats, which were sequenced in Live. This setup supplied nearly all of the percussion for the show. For Nude and Give Up The Ghost, Thom tapped on his acoustic for percussion.
Macbook Pro running Max MSP The sticker on the back of the laptop shows it to be Jonny’s main touring Macbook. Audio is passed to and from the computer through a Focusrite Clarett 8pre. MIDI from the FC-200 is passed through a MOTU MIDI Express XT. The interface rack contains two of each interface as backup. The computer ran a looping Max patch, which was used on Give Up The Ghost. It provided a kick drum to help Thom keep tempo as he controlled the looper with the Roland FC-200.
Used for:
Give Up The Ghost (Jonny, Thom via FC-200)
Roland FC-200 Footswitch MIDI Controller Used for:
Give Up The Ghost (Thom)
Macbook Pro running NI Kontakt Controlled via a Fatar Studiologic SL-161. The computer’s output is run through an Ernie Ball VP Jr, which is used to dynamically vary its volume on Exit Music. Used for:
Rhodes Suitcase Piano Mark I 73 Mic’d with a pair of Sennheiser e906′s. Used for:
All I Need (Jonny)
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (Jonny)
80’s Student Model ondes Martenot Effects signal chain: Martenot -> Akai Headrush E1 -> Ernie Ball VP Jr -> BOSS GE7 -> BOSS RV5 -> Mixing Desk The instrument is also connected a BOSS TU-12H tuner.@karindgr
The Headrush and VP Jr were mounted on the keyboard stand, while the GE7 and RV5 were velcro’d to the Martenot itself. Placing the VP Jr after the Headrush allows Jonny to create a loop silently on How To Disappear Completely. The GE7 was used during soundcheck for Desert Island Disk, but was not used for the performance.
Analogue Systems RS200 Sequencer System + RS15 Rack No.
Analogue Systems RS200 Sequencer System + RS15 Rack No. 2 Check this page for a full list of modules. Used to during soundcheck for Idioteque, but not used for the performance.
All pedals powered by Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 PLUS’s.
During Follow Me Around, Jonny used his EHX Freeze to loop chords as he strummed them, then played arpeggios over the frozen sound. Jonny used the pedal in the same way when he used it for the first time on the band debut of Skirting On The Surface, but its use since then has been more subdued and restricted to Morning Mr Magpie and Everything In Its Right Place.
BOSS TU-3 Acoustic guitars are passed through this pedal before being sent to the PA. Plank uses it to mute the signal path when Thom switches between acoustics. Mounted on top of a rack case near Thom’s amp.
“We guarantee no auto-tune will be used during the show. All our mistakes are our own work.” - Radiohead suffered technical problems at Coachella. 14/04/2017.
In creating the art for Radiohead’s album A Moon Shaped Pool artist Stanley Donwood called on the weather to play its part. We talked to him about making the paintings and how Thom Yorke’s “fucking everything up” helped the duo get to the finished works.
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The arrival of A Moon Shaped Pool caused another stir, with Radiohead signalling that something was coming by dramatically removing all the content on their website, Twitter feed and Facebook page in the week before the album dropped. The erasure caused a media frenzy – a far greater impact than the band had predicted, according to Stanley Donwood.
“That was another of those ideas that you have down the pub that turned out to be really much more effective than we thought,” he says. “Honestly, we did not expect people to go quite so crazy. It worked really well; really it was a way of getting rid of all of what had gone before; it was a practical solution to what seemed to be a complicated problem. Quite a simple solution: just stop everything for a bit.
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To get to the final artworks that we now see in the album, Donwood engaged in some creative sparring with Yorke. “We had them all photographed and started cutting things up in Photoshop,” he explains. “Me with my slight tendency towards Virgo-like detailing and perfectionism, and Thom’s completely opposed, fucking everything up. It works really well, we’ve been doing that for a long time. To sum up crudely, when we’re working together, I do something, then he fucks it up, then I fuck up what he’s done … and we keep doing that until we’re happy with the result. It’s a competition to see who ‘wins’ the painting, which one of us takes possession of it in an artistic way.”
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