Radiohead Plans Tour As More Fans Download Album Illegally

October 19th, 2007
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Radiohead Plans TourRadiohead will head out on a worldwide tour next spring, according to Billboard.com. One of the band’s managers, Bryce Edge, said that the trek will most likely start in May and last until the end of 2008, adding, “At the moment we are talking with our agents…trying to get a schedule which works for the band and works financially.” Edge also said that the band’s summer 2006 tour, which was limited to smaller venues in a handful of European and U.S. cities, was done for “creative reasons, definitely not for financial reasons. And I think they quite enjoyed it. The next set of touring will be slightly larger-scale venues.”

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has expressed distaste for large tours in the past, especially because of their effects on climate change. Edge explained, “(Yorke) likes to do shows, but the whole business of schlepping around the world is not top of his list of favorite things to do. He really enjoys playing to the fans — it’s just the process of how to do that which is the pain in the neck…They’re not road dogs. They never have been.”

Radiohead issued its new album, In Rainbows, last week as a digital download, with fans able to pay whatever price they wanted. Edge said that reports of sales of 1.2 million downloads were “exaggerated,” but refused to name a figure.

Meanwhile, tracking company Big Champagne has reported that illegal downloads of In Rainbows have far surpassed any legal number, with 100,000 copies being downloaded a day.

A standard CD release of the album is tentatively planned for early 2008.

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