Talking Head
There is a danger when looking at mainstream music, even pop as skewed and awkward as Radiohead’s, that people can start to look for things that simply aren’t there. Footman cites the post-structuralist theory that the author is dead in order to pin some slightly questionable sociological tails on his alt-rock donkey, and in some instances a direct chat or two with Thom Yorke might have kept a couple of the wilder guesses in check. However, I don’t presume to guess at the author’s resources or intents; unlike Footman — but again, the majority of his analysis does stand on its own feet, and the logic behind it is relatively difficult to fault.
Richard O’Brien reviews
Offbeats in Prague
Stewart Home reports back from the 3:AM / Offbeat event at the BLATT Fest in Prague on Friday 4 May (more details here): “The next day I took easyJet (or lousyJet as I think of it) to Prague so that I could appear in the Blatt Literary Festival. Unfortunately the plane was packed out with […]