toniiiiiiiigggghhhhhttttt!!!!!! Club Dada. Album Release. 8:30pm. ALL AGES!
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My niece Irene turned three today.
Rachel and I made this song for her.
Radiohead Is Brilliant and I Am an Awkward, Awkward Man
Radiohead is incorporating new songs into the setlist almost every night so they have extensive rehearsals every day. Sometimes we watch them rehearse. It’s almost as inspiring as the live show. The first time we heard them try out Paranoid Android it sounded good, but rusty, in need of some polish. Then they played it that same night at the show and it was perfect.
Almost every show on the tour has a day in between it and the next show, which is quite handy for Other Lives, since we’re in a van and I don’t think we’d make some of the drives (Austin to St. Louis, Denver to Phoenix) if we didn’t have that extra day. But at the beginning of the tour, there were two back to back shows: Tampa and Atlanta. This turned out to be quite a challenge for the Radiohead crew because they have an extensive stage, light, sound and video setup.
Amazingly everything ended up in its right place that day in Atlanta, but we were behind schedule as a result of the time crunch.
That day, Jesse and I watched the Radiohead soundcheck, which was running behind schedule like everything else. But we didn’t care, we were happy just to watch them rehearse. Thom, however, gentleman that he is, was very aware that their rehearsal time was eating into our setup time, and so, at one point in their rehearsal, he looked over at Jesse and I, sitting in the audience, and he made this expression:
which, we both knew to be “Sorry guys, we don’t mean to be running late, but everything else is running late today, and so what can you do?”
Jesse, in kind, made this expression:
which we both knew to mean “that’s okay, Thom, you’re the best, and what can you do? It doesn’t bother us in the least.”
At the same time as Jesse, I was making this expression:
which was an attempt at “Oh, please don’t worry about it, there’s no need to apologize at all” but I think ended up more like “give me a high-five! wait, make that a high-10 and let’s both act mildly surprised that we even know each other” and/or “awwwwww yeah! look at my hands, I got a reverse manicure, Thom!”
I’m sorry to everyone involved in that interaction. Radiohead is brilliant and I am an awkward, awkward man.
Video footage of a professional signer at the Radiohead show signing along to “Weird Fishes” for a whole crew of hearing impaired fans. I was so impressed by how much he got into the music.
soundcheck: Pyramid Song, followed by All I Need, followed by Myxomatosis. My brain almost exploded.
had a nightmare
I’m sidestage watching the radiohead show, pretty confident that it’s the best day of my life. All of a sudden I hear a loud beeping noise coming from the stage, louder than the music. First I think, “that’s an odd stylistic choice, ThomJonny. But you’re Radiohead, I’m sure you know what you’re doing.” The beeping noise gets louder and louder throughout the song and I can see the guys onstage looking perplexed and frustrated. Finally Thom says over the microphone, “What is that? Will someone please turn that off?” A stage manager frantically storms past me to the other side of the stage, to a pile of bags and jackets on a small staircase leading up to where Johnny is sitting. He rummages through them for a moment, picks something up, and runs back across the stage to where I’m still standing. It occurs to me that my bag and jacket were in that pile seconds before the stage manager yells out, “Who’s Daniel Hart? Who’s Daniel Hart?” I tell him that I’m Daniel Hart and he hands me my beeping cell phone and says, “Turn it off, mate! Turn it off right now!” My cell phone is beeping so loudly now that I can’t hear anything else. I turn it off; still beeping. I push off the green plastic cover and tear out the battery; still beeping. Everyone’s staring and yelling at me; still beeping. Pretty confident it’s the worst day of my life.
I wake up.
TOUR TIME!
Our TX mini-tour is almost here and we are so very excited to be playing together again! You + us + shows = total success!
Thurs. Jan 26 - San Antonio at 502
Fri. Jan 27 - Austin at the Mohawk
Sat. Jan 28 - Dallas at El Sibil
Sun. Jan 29 - Denton at Dan’s Silverleaf
Come one come all!
Yes, Asia Argento, we will also at some point play a private show for you in your struggling tire warehouse, but let us do this Texas mini-tour first!
xo
Daniel Hart
