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Watch Cillian Murphy in Video for The Smile’s ‘Pana-vision’
The Smile has extended its creative partnership with the hit Netflix British drama Peaky Blinders via a new video for its song “Pana-vision” starring the show’s Cillian Murphy. “Pana-vision” previously debuted in an April episode of the show’s sixth and final season and can be found on the Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood-led group’s debut album, A Light for Attracting Attention. In the video, directed by Peaky Blinders director/producer Anthony Byrne, Murphy reprises his role as World War I veteran/gangster Tommy Shelby. Yorke’s haunting vocals and ethereal piano playing offer the perfect complement as Shelby awakens in a field after a night of drinking and contemplates a drastic measure involving a loaded pistol. [embedded content][embedded content] The Smile just wrapped the first leg of ...
The Smile Builds an Alternate Universe Radiohead on A Light for Attracting Attention
Fifty-nine seconds into “The Same,” the first track from The Smile’s debut release A Light for Attracting Attention, the unmistakable voice of Thom Yorke begins singing about how “we are all the same” atop a sci-fi pulse of piano, acoustic guitar, and analog synthesizers. There’s no easy release from the tension of the song’s slowly creeping dread, and it soon begs an important question: how is an album with Radiohead’s singer, lead guitarist, and producer actually not, well, a Radiohead album? The answer lies somewhere in between Jonny Greenwood’s simple desire to work on something — anything — with Yorke during the lockdown era of the COVID-19 pandemic and a larger philosophical debate about the evolution of Radiohead’s music in the past 15 years. Both are reflected throughout the superl...
Radiohead Side Project The Smile Release First Single ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’
Last year, Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood joined Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner as a new super trio, The Smile. Today, they unveiled their first-ever single “You Will Never Work In Television Again.” Debuted live in the band’s secret show at last year’s Glastonbury event Live At Worthy Farm, the new track is the group’s first official release. Produced by Nigel Godrich, its accompanying lyric video was directed by Duncan Loudon. The Smile will perform three consecutive live shows on Jan. 29 and 30 at Magazine London, which will also be live streamed, and the shows are set within a 24 hour period. Physical and livestream tickets are on sale at 9 a.m. GMT on Jan. 7 via Driift. Superfans can sign up for pre-sale tickets by joining The Smile’s mailing list. All three shows w...
Watch Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood Debut Their New Band the Smile
Just hours after announcing its existence, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s new band the Smile made its debut during a set for Glastonbury’s Live at Worthy Farm livestream. The Radiohead side project, which also features drummer Tom Skinner, ran through an eight-song setlist that opened with a new version of Radiohead’s unreleased track “Skirting on the Surface” (the set list refers to it as “Skating on the Surface”). From there, the trio treated fans to seven new songs that unsurprisingly sounded like pared down Radiohead tracks with slightly different nuances. Though production was credited to Yorke’s longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich, he wasn’t present during the performance. There’s no word on whether the Smile plan to release an album (or any recorded songs, for ...
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood to Debut New Band the Smile During Glastonbury Livestream
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have formed a new band with drummer Tom Skinner and producer Nigel Godrich called the Smile. The quartet, which got its name from a Ted Hughes poem, is slated to make its debut tonight during Glastonbury’s ticketed Live At Worthy Farm livestream event today. “We’re truly honoured that Thom and Jonny have chosen our livestream event to premiere their brand new project, The Smile,” Glastonbury co-organizer Emily Eavis said in a statement. “Sadly, we are all unable to gather together at Worthy Farm, but alongside sets from other wonderful performers, this has all the makings of a special Glastonbury moment – and one we can broadcast to the world.” Yorke and Godrich have been longtime collaborators. Aside from producing all of Radiohead...
