Radiohead in 100 gigs
March 24th -April 3rd I go back to my parents and promptly get ill. A fortnight of late nights, hangovers and standing around in the chilly night air have given me a bad cold. I sleep a lot, watch videos and write up as much as I can remember about the tour. My brother, who… Continue reading The First Big Comedown. March- April 1995
The Astoria is gone now, but my memory of my first visit there lingers on and thankfully there is the video to mark the event. Those are my arms; God, the director must have hated me. The mosh is alive, it's moving so much and is so tightly packed that I literally couldn't get my… Continue reading Watching “Astoria. London. Live”
MAY I go to more gigs in Glasgow when I get back, trying to find the elusive feeling and never quite managing it. I have fevered postal exchanges of Radiohead gossip and photos with Izzy in Japan; long sessions of tea drinking and tour stories with Maree after English Literature lectures, and becoming a bit… Continue reading May-October 1995
I can barely contain myself. I give up trying to have a normal day and go to the venue at 4pm to find some new Japanese girls have already formed a queue. I talk to some of the other keen types at the front, one has been to three REM dates including Milton Keynes, which… Continue reading 23. Glasgow, Barrowland, 31 October 1995
I eat breakfast while listening to a tape of Thom and Jonny on XFM sent by my Croydon pen pal (it was only broadcast in the Greater London area). She’s sent the whole session from the Gary Crowley show, it includes another new song, An Airbag Saved My Life, the title is inspired by, “A… Continue reading 24. Leeds, Town & Country Club, 1 November 1995
It feels weird to be in Manchester without Val. I arrive with Keiko and we go to the Tourist Information Office to get a hotel, we find Izzy already there and we all get a bargain £17 deal for Sasha’s, the city centre hotel where I’d ended up in the bar last time I was… Continue reading 25. Manchester, Academy, 2 November 1995
After a couple of nights in my old bed at my folks, I get the Sunday service bus into the city and walk through the Victoria shopping centre towards Rock City. Myoko is also on her way to the venue. When I get there Keiko is outside with a big bunch of flowers as it… Continue reading 26. Nottingham, Rock City, 5 November 1995
We forgot the little ducks in a rush to get a taxi to the station to get a fairly early start, Myoko finds us at Ely when we change trains and it’s a nice journey. When we get there I drop them at the Holiday Inn and set off on foot for the college where… Continue reading 27. Cambridge, Corn Exchange, 6 November 1995
Living in a student flat with dodgy electrics, having to share a TV with four other people, not having a VCR on which to record anything… I was always worried about missing something. Without the means to buy my own TV and living in an era before You Tube had even been thought of, trying… Continue reading My Iron Lung. Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. 3 December 1995
The year seems to go by quickly. I'm still doing my part time degree course and still living in a student hovel. Radiohead bubble under in my consciousness. Highlights are the wonderful Street Spirit promo video; writing to Frances, a girl who I met at a gig who is putting together a funny little fanzine… Continue reading 28. Manchester, Apollo, 11 July 1996