Liars reveal deep dark Radiohead tour secrets
As we all know, Radiohead recently finished the first leg of their U.S. tour and will soon begin hitting up Europe. But as high-profile as the tour has been, thank to the Liars, who have been serving as Thom Yorke’s handpicked support band, we recently got a pretty revealing, inside look at what it’s like to be on the road with those oh so popular English natives.
In a world full of fear and ripe with insincerity its such a relief to have met Radiohead.
They are purveyors of truth, beauty and a moral responsibility to the planet.
We’ve been welcomed with literal open ams and thoroughly schooled
on how to function as a band -not just musically, but ethicly too.
The honor is in learning from the best and from the beginning we’ve been in class.
The important thing for us to make clear is just how awe inspiring this production is.
We’re not sure if there’s any information made public about the efforts
Radiohead go to to reduce their environmental impact.
But, there should be.
At the outset we were all given tour water flasks.
Plastic anything is like contraband.
Every bus and truck runs on bio-fuel.
There is no idling, rather some new-fangled way to deliver electricity cleanly.
They don’t do air-freight either.
The list goes on..
Everything is supremely managed to reduce the ‘footprint’
and it’s inspiring in that its ‘real’ and should set the standard for other big productions.
This all goes beyond the immediate impact of simply
being able to watch these 5 guys perform together each night.
Unlike any band we’ve seen they all contribute such an immense amount to the outcome.
Their extreme individual talents blending so naturally.
To witness this first-hand is an education in musicianship and vision
that’s certainly not been lost on us..
For now, we’d like to send our huge thanks to the Radiohead crew
for being so super crazy nice and supportive to us.
We’ll see them in Spain again for the Daydream Festival
and ofcourse during our West Coast tour with Radiohead in August -
so no tears yet..
We Liars head to Europe now…
following a luxurious 2 day break and will be re-tracing
some of the steps missed due to the euphoria of living in rainbows.
Alright so it’s not that revealing, but I guess Radiohead are pretty serious about the whole “Go Green” thing.
In other news, check out some live mp3s from the recent Wasington, D.C. show…
Check Out:
“Jigsaw Falling Into Place” (Live)
“Reckoner” (Live)
Liars are pretty f’n good.
You blagging bastards this revelation is off the Liars Myspace.
Funny how when I saw Radiohead live and when Liars opened up for them, the lead singer not only threw water bottles to the crowd, which was very little, he downed himself an entire bottle of Zephyrhills.
settle down bill oreilly…
all theyve done is try to reduce their own carbon emissions during a tour that otherwise would cause a sizeable amount of pollution and use of resources…i dont recall them doing any “self-righteous” promotion other than basically saying “this is what were doing and we hope others follow our lead”…it took someone from their supporting act to [barely] communicate [some of] what theyre doing…
i think its pretty admirable and im not sure what the negative aspect of it could be…
go crank up some toby keith in your idling ford excursion…
This whole Go Green thing is a load of self righteous BS, in my opinion.