Radiohead Are Weirdo Rippers

Last night No Age's drumming vocalist Dean Spunt emailed us, mentioning that to his surprise he caught Colin Greenwood sporting a No Age t-shirt during the radiohead.tv broadcast of their 93 Feet East gig. In his words, "IN RAINBOWS , NO AGE IN RAINBOWS." He's right (see below). And hell, the L.A. duo's rainbow theme fits rather nicely with Radiohead's current design theme -- smart thinking Dean and Randy. Come to think of it, this could very well be our first BTW to end up on the body of a member of Radiohead. That came out all wrong. Anyhow, as if loving No Age wasn't sign enough of good taste, during their recent BBC DJ sets, Jonny spun Grizzly Bear and Thom hooked it up with Burial and !!! for the second time. We have that entire set after the jump.

[Photo by Andy Willsher for NME]

This is how the BBC typed it up:

19:00
MIA - "Paper Planes" (XL)
The Bug - "Poison Dart' (South Rawkus remix)" (Ninja Tune)
Kings of Leon - "Charmer" (Sony)
Sonic Youth - "Youth Against Fascism" (DGC)
!!! - "Heart Of Hearts" (Warp)
Modeselektor - "The Dark Side Of The Sun" (BPitch)
Os Mutantes - "A Minha Menina" (.)

Burial - "Archangel" (Hyperdub)

Sugar Bear - "Dont Scandalize Me" (Solid State)
Happy Mondays - "Wrote For Luck" (Factory)

20:00
AFX - "Crying In Your Face" (DGC)
Bass Clef - "Ballad of The Broken" (.)
XTC - "Sgt Rock (Is Going To Help Me)" (Virgin)
Holy F*** - "Lovely Allen" (Young Turks)
Jorge Ben - "Umba-bara-uma" (Philips)
Carl Craig - "Demented (Laurent Garnier Edit)" (Planet E)

Jonny from the band on the phone
Tomas Anderson - "Happy Happy" (Bpitch)
The Damned - "New Rose" (Stiff)
Asian Dub Foundation - "Naxalite" (London)
Iron And Wine - "The Devil Never Sleeps" (Sub Pop)
Konono No1 - "Lufuala Ndonga" (Hyperdub)
Grizzly Bear - "He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)" (Warp)

You can listen here.

Posted at 9:41 AM
Tags: Burial | Grizzly Bear | No Age | Radiohead

9 Comments

actually I think johnny was on the phone and thom spun grizzly bear
but I couldnt' hear the whole broadcast so I'm not entirely sure

kings of leon though?!?!?!

Posted by: actually at 01/18/08 11:13 AM | Reply
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I bet he got that No Age t-shirt across the street at Rough Trade - I saw that they had one hanging there for sale the day before!

Posted by: Benq at 01/18/08 11:58 AM | Reply
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ed adores Kings of Leon. Calls them the best band in the world.

Posted by: dylan at 01/18/08 12:07 PM | Reply
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Seems that No Age is well-aware of the endorsement:

http://www.myspace.com/nonoage

Posted by: innercityblues at 01/18/08 1:56 PM | Reply
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wow, no age really love themselves

Posted by: jimmy at 01/18/08 3:30 PM | Reply
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more like everybody really loves no age. and rightfully so, dudes kill. and innercityblues, another sign of them being well-aware of the endorsement was when they wrote stereogum an email about it. but i could see how you'd miss that, being in the first sentence and all.

Posted by: pharma at 01/18/08 4:03 PM | Reply
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wow no age really sucks. i just checked them out. 3 chord punk songs with out of key singing. pretty awful stuff. radiohead are music nerds. they know of every band that ever existed, ever.

Posted by: Nutjob at 01/18/08 4:45 PM | Reply
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Ha, No Age! that almost makes up for Radiohead's terminally morose output over the last, oh i don't know, century. Only kidding, I love free shit! But yeah, No Age. I saw them on VBS.tv's practice space and i've been hooked since - http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?bctid=1293598940&bccl=Mjg0OTQ3NzE4X19NVVNJQw==

Posted by: nikehairmax at 01/24/08 10:27 AM | Reply
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i think no age are absolutely terrible. i've loved radiohead for years but it seems they're starting to slip.

Posted by: mike at 06/01/08 2:44 AM | Reply
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