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Monday, January 14, 2008

Music Bring Radiohead to Portland

Posted by Ezra Caraeff on Mon, Jan 14 at 6:47 PM

Friend to End Hits, and stray cats, 94.7 Alternative Mornings host Greg Glover recently interviewed Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien. Turns out, O’Brien (like all Brits) is a huge fan of our dear PDX and mentioned that he’d not only want to perform here with his Radiohead mates, but he’d like to do a week of shows in Portland.

But what about all those tour dates the band recently announced that don’t include our city?

Good question.

So Glover chatted with the band’s management and it was decided that the best way to get Thom and company to roll into town was to start a petition. So he did just that, and in less than a full day there has been close to 500 emails from Portland residents demanding their Radiohead.

It’s easy as that. Email your request for Radiohead to play Portland, and Glover will directly pass it on to the band’s management. It can’t hurt…

If End Hits, the Mercury music blog, can’t have you, no one can.

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Tampa? TAMPA? Who put this tour schedule together? If they played a week of shows here, they'd sell out in an hour.

In Rainbows only confirmed what I felt about the band... they're rare, they're amazing, they're their own genre.

Posted by TKrueg | January 14, 2008 9:28 PM

I'm imagining an alternative Radiohead petition, but for some reason, can't quite nail the title...

Posted by Matt Davis | January 15, 2008 9:04 AM

here's my letter:

Radiohead. WTF? I thought we were friends.

With the holidays fast approaching and the dollar quickly shrinking, I (gladly) shelled out 80 bucks for your cute little disc-box and now you wanna pretend like I'm not even here? Fuck man. I even paid four pounds for your pay-what-you-want In Rainbows download just to help you embarrass the record industry. Thats at least $88 I spent on you in this last calendar year (then there are all the replacement copies of Ok Computer I've had to buy over my lifetime.) I sort-of feel like you not only owe me a Portland show, you owe me a ticket, backstage pass, hor'dervs and a beer (imported). No, You know what? I don't even live in Portland, I live in Pendleton (fucking) Oregon, (Home of the world famous Pendleton Round-Up, about 200 mi from Portland) and I know I'm not the only one in this town who have spent more money that their allotted monthly record budget on your swag. Albums, Videos, T-shirts, Posters- I see them in the houses of the most unexpected people here. For big shows like yours, we Pendletonians normally have to drive the 200 mile stretch of I-84 to PDX to pay ticketmaster more than our rent to see the show from some nose-bleed section somewhere, or with two miles of heads bobbing in and out of the way. Well I know I don't need to tell you about the price of gas these days not to mention all the pollution we'll cause stampeding toward the rose-city. I'm just going to say it:

Radiohead, you owe US a Pendleton date.

Yeah, I said it. When your on your way to play the week's worth of shows you owe Portland, you better just stop and pay us a visit. Radiohead, I'm not fuckin' around here. If you don't play Pendleton AND Portland then our town just might have to boy-cot your band. Sure, that probably wont hurt you financially but you can kiss your street-cred goodbye! Don't underestimate me here, guys, We'll start listening to Coldplay and picketing if we need to. You do NOT want to piss off a town equally divided by stoners and cowboys.

Look lads, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. I'm sure you'll make money off us and I'm sure Pitchfork would come up with some quirky, masturbatory headline for it. Anyway Portland AND Pendleton. Make it happen, alright? I gotta go.

Your Fan (please keep it that way),
Peter R. Walters

Posted by PR Walters | January 15, 2008 10:07 AM

Petition title: "For Thom Yorke to act on his suicidal feelings."

I knew it would come to me eventually.

Posted by Matt Davis | January 15, 2008 11:02 AM

couver, baby.

http://www.amphitheateratclarkcounty.com

Posted by couve-man | January 15, 2008 3:36 PM

Portland Wants Radiohead group on Facebook!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7154459940

Posted by TM | January 16, 2008 3:54 PM

Who do we email? When I hit the email link it takes me to gmail but no email address is there.

Posted by Amber | January 17, 2008 11:05 AM

gold and silver. A prince, anxious to maintain his dominions at all times in either the price of the commission happened to rise, or when he was obliged

Posted by James | January 24, 2008 2:47 PM

gold and silver. A prince, anxious to maintain his dominions at all times in either the price of the commission happened to rise, or when he was obliged

Posted by James | January 24, 2008 2:47 PM

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