Liam Emerson
Music News 24/7Chemical Brothers' Ed Simons frustrated at Radiohead
By Liam Emerson, on 29th March 2011, 09:53 UTC
The Chemical Brothers' Ed Simons has tweeted his frustrations over Radiohead's latest album release.
Radiohead released their new LP The King of Limbs as a download in February, with the physical release available in shops yesterday. They will also be releasing a 'newspaper edition' featuring either the MP3s or WAVs together with 2x10" vinyl, a CD and 625 pieces of artwork packaged in a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic on May 9.
Simons responded to a tweet by writer Sophie Heawood, who wrote: "Am starting to wonder if there's any other band as in love with their own lovedness as the current incarnation of Radiohead."
He replied: "the bends was just ok, not listened to much after that, are they any good? (sic)"
In response to a question about their latest release, he said: "not being bad, but it all just sounds like nonsense to me, it is possible I am wrong on this, but newspaper records, who cares."
Fans flocked to Rough Trade in East London yesterday to be handed copies of Radiohead's free newspaper 'The Universal Sigh' by the bands' singer Thom Yorke. A huge queue of people formed hours before the midday opening time.
He continued: "I have no interest in Radiohead, not their music or their obsession with marketing. by our grace, us multi millionaires are going to give our record away for free, forget all the musicians trying to catch a break."
He went on to say: "the cocteau twins didn't wrap up their albums in newspapers or whatever it is. the zombies didn't sit around plotting their digital strategy."
Ed Simons may not be a fan of Radiohead's tactics, but their millions of fans worldwide lap it up. One fan in the queue for the paper yesterday said "When Radiohead ask you to jump - you jump."
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