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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke “disses” Peter Gabriel, preps “something” in April
By Alex Young on February 15th, 2010 in
Aside from a variety of Thom Yorke remixes, a Phil Selway solo tour, and rumors of a recently completed studio session, the most exciting piece of Radiohead news we’ve received of late was word that the band would be covering Peter Gabriel’s “Wallflower” as part of the Scratch My Back song exchange. Or so we thought.
As Gabriel revealed in a new interview with The Sun, he has yet to hear back from Yorke and co since they initially agreed to record the cover. Sigh.
“I still haven’t had a response from Thom Yorke,” Gabriel explained. “He originally wrote to say he wanted to do a version of ‘Wallflower’, but I haven’t heard what he thinks of my version of (‘Street Spirit’).”
“Not everyone likes it and I’ve no real idea whether he likes it or hates it,” he continued. “We have a little clue, though… We gave out codes for the artists to listen to their songs on a stream and we could see how many times they’ve heard them. I think he’s only streamed ‘Street Spirit’ once, which isn’t a good sign, but who knows?”
Perhaps it’s not matter of dislike, but because the Radiohead frontman has a few other things on his plate these days. In fact, if you take much stock in a recent tweet by Scott Eric Olivier, a Los Angeles based musician and producer, Yorke could be planning both upcoming tour dates — in addition to an appearance at this year’s Coachella Music Festival — and some studio time. Thank goodness for Twitter.
Of course, nothing is confirmed, but one thing is for sure: there’s never a dull moment in the wonderful world of Radiohead…
TAGGED AS: Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Thom Yorke
comments (14)
Alex Young “disses” Thom Yorke, writes bullshit to get attention.
Thom is not ‘dissing’ anyone. Such a lie could only have been written by someone who is desperate for attention.
This totally sucks .. why bother when Street Spirits belong to radioheaad.. horrible musical arrengements..ugh
That Street Spirit cover was no good I am afraid. Sorry. try again.
Ray Brown and Dekks are right. this is rumor mongering, and your contributing to why artists fucking hate the media. why don’t you try to stick to regular news, and stop making stuff up Alex.
Ignoring someone, like in the way Thom Yorke did to Mr. Gabriel here, is in fact a form of dissing someone. “Disses” was also in quotation marks — I’m guessing they watered it down that way so shitheads like you guys would understand that he was in fact commiting a “diss”, but just not in the sense that you’re used to. Consider yourselves dissed.
Poor Thom… still pissing people by doing nothing!
Yeah, I agree with Deckks. There is no ‘dissing,’ and sensationalizing your blog posts is a cheap way to get more hits. Thumbs down.
wait, he never actually “disses” him, he never said anything at all, the title of this article has nothing to do with the content
Thom Yorke to Peter Gabriel’s (shit) cover of Street Spirit:
album, i mean.
That Peter Gabriel covers albums is a snooze. Very disappointed.
