Radiohead Research

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Radio head

The band:

Radio head are a English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consisted of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brian, Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway. After signing to EMI in 1991, radio head released their first debut single 'creep' in 1992. Th band has been together for 32 years, this is since 1985 - present. The genre of their music is rock(alternative rock, experimental rock, electronica and art rock). The lead vocalist Thom Yorke is usually in the center of most of the photos that are taken and with that this shows who the main vocalist is for the band.

The moon shaped pool:


The moon shaped pool is the ninth studio album, it was released digitally 8th of May 2016. CP and LP releases followed in June 2016 through XL recordings, they also sold a special edition from their website containing two extra songs and additional artwork. Radiohead recorded 'a moon shaped pool' in southern France with longtime producer Nigel Godrich, it includes several songs written some years earlier. 'True love walts' dates to at least 1955, 'burn the witch' 2000 and 'present tense' to 2008. It was recorded 2014-2016.




Chris Hopewell:

Chris Hopewell is a English music video director, he has directed videos for radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, the killers, scissor sisters and many more. His video for Radiohead's 'there, there' received an award for art direction at the 2003 music video music awards. He also co-directed with Crispian Mills on the film 'a fantastic fear of everything' starring Simon Pegg. His most recent work is directing the music video for the Advenged Sevenfold's 2016 single, 'the stage.'

Burn the witch:

The band in the video 'burn the witch' wanted to raise awareness about Europe's refugee crisis and the 'blaming of different people... the blaming of Muslims and the negativity.' The video is stop motion and is described as 'unsettling' The music video is inspired by the British TV show 'Trumptonshire Trilogy', during the video a man is given a tour of a 'picture-perfect' town in which the residents do unspeakably creepy and violent things to each other. The video ends in the man being burned to death in a massive wooden man - a reference to the 1973 British horror movie 'the wiker man.'

The wiker man:

The wiker man is a British Horror film from 1973, it was directed by Robin Hard, it stars Edward Woodward. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel ritual, centres on the visit of Police Sargent Neil Howie to the isolated Island of Sumerisle, in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practises a form of Celtic Paganism.

The Trumptonshire trilogy:

Trumptonshire is a fictional county created by Gordon Murray, in which the Trumptonshire trilogy of Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chigley are located. According the Murray, the three communities are based on real locations one and half miles from each other at the corners of an equilateral triangle. The puppets are designed the be around 8inches/20cm high(without hat). BBC Studios and post production's digital media services team remastered all 39 episodes of all the Trumptonshire Trilogy in 2011 for DVD release, cleaning, scanning and digitally restoring the film footage frame by frame.



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