"Amateur Night II" was the second webcast that Radiohead held, broadcast on February 11th 2000. Though the band have uploaded a portion of the webcast to their Public Library, a large chunk of it still remains essentially lost.
Colin in january 2000 in a post in his section of radiohead.com:
I'm sorry it's taken me so long to lose the
mugshot, but my computer's been sick all festive season, and I
finally got it back from the mac doctor in Philadelphia, but then
whilst I was over there, I forgot to bring the right plug, so I
couldn't use it. Duh!
Guess what, I bought lots of records in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, more Mr Lewis and also Ray Bryant, a fine percussive piano player. I hope to be spinning some of my ' finds ' on the web-cast next fortnight, when maybe eddie and I and phil and whoever cares to will be taking over on the wheels of steel for our village disco. I'm going to try and draw one of those flashing light boxes with those triangular slabs of light flashing on and off in no particular time that would be stacked in front of the decks in the village halls and school discos of my youth. Ahh.
My millenial book over the happy holidays was " reflections on a ravaged century " by Robert Conquest; I can't remember the first bit of the title, but it was very good, Christopher Hitchens wrote a great review of it in the TLS a couple of months ago. It's very interesting about the west's failure of imagination when dealing with the Soviet Union, and it made me want to read lots of Orwell, my next book assignment. What does this have to do with rock and roll? Well we start back next week, and I'm looking forward to seeing the faces and making some noises.
Guess what, I bought lots of records in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, more Mr Lewis and also Ray Bryant, a fine percussive piano player. I hope to be spinning some of my ' finds ' on the web-cast next fortnight, when maybe eddie and I and phil and whoever cares to will be taking over on the wheels of steel for our village disco. I'm going to try and draw one of those flashing light boxes with those triangular slabs of light flashing on and off in no particular time that would be stacked in front of the decks in the village halls and school discos of my youth. Ahh.
My millenial book over the happy holidays was " reflections on a ravaged century " by Robert Conquest; I can't remember the first bit of the title, but it was very good, Christopher Hitchens wrote a great review of it in the TLS a couple of months ago. It's very interesting about the west's failure of imagination when dealing with the Soviet Union, and it made me want to read lots of Orwell, my next book assignment. What does this have to do with rock and roll? Well we start back next week, and I'm looking forward to seeing the faces and making some noises.
Ed remarking in his diary about the webcast:
thursday, february 10th 2000
WEBCAST DAY......................these days are a bit like being a child again...just throw it all in and see what comes out. 'amateur hour' got extended to four hours ....and dare i say it but i think we're getting ever so sophisticated........the campfire, the 'nice' logfire, the upside down table football, the zx spectrum programmers. yes tonight all our two hours of preparation came to fruition in this glorious mess of a web broadcast. we had a few more cameras at our disposal and our technical team has expanded from one to two, so things were naturally going to be a step up from the last time. we only wish that a few more of you had been able to witness us getting wasted and making complete and utter fools of ourselves........maybe next time.....the great thing about these evenings for us is that they are the antithesis of how i think we're perceived ie angry, angsty young men....that's fine, but you can't possibly be like that all the time (as we've found out) because you'll be dead by the time you reach your mid-30s which used to be a long way away and is now still quite a way but certainly not unreachable. about the demo thing as well .....i still haven't been able to listen to everything sent............but there is another idea, which is way more exciting, but i'm not going to say what it is as i don't want the idea nicked.
we've got a week off next week and who knows maybe in the next few weeks we may even finish off the recording of the songs we've been working on?.............
WEBCAST DAY......................these days are a bit like being a child again...just throw it all in and see what comes out. 'amateur hour' got extended to four hours ....and dare i say it but i think we're getting ever so sophisticated........the campfire, the 'nice' logfire, the upside down table football, the zx spectrum programmers. yes tonight all our two hours of preparation came to fruition in this glorious mess of a web broadcast. we had a few more cameras at our disposal and our technical team has expanded from one to two, so things were naturally going to be a step up from the last time. we only wish that a few more of you had been able to witness us getting wasted and making complete and utter fools of ourselves........maybe next time.....the great thing about these evenings for us is that they are the antithesis of how i think we're perceived ie angry, angsty young men....that's fine, but you can't possibly be like that all the time (as we've found out) because you'll be dead by the time you reach your mid-30s which used to be a long way away and is now still quite a way but certainly not unreachable. about the demo thing as well .....i still haven't been able to listen to everything sent............but there is another idea, which is way more exciting, but i'm not going to say what it is as i don't want the idea nicked.
we've got a week off next week and who knows maybe in the next few weeks we may even finish off the recording of the songs we've been working on?.............