Friday, February 19, 2010 4:07PM - By Laura Aguirre
Why can’t everyone just get along? Last night, Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers decided to publicly diss Radiohead‘s Ed O’ Brien. The Welsh band was playing a show at the legendary, Scottish 300-capacity venue for the first time since 1991 to celebrate the club’s 20th birthday when Wire told the audience:
“Apparently Ed O’ Brien called me a wanker, I’m really fucking scared, go back to your boarding school you cunt!”
O’Brien made the ‘wanker’ comment in an interview in which he said Wire’s views on file-sharing were ‘bollocks.’ This comment was a response to Wire’s first comment (the one that started the feud), when he said Radiohead only started caring about file-sharing after they’d made millions — this comment was made in December 2007:
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Monday, December 21, 2009 6:05PM - By Jeffrey Hyatt
Radiohead are planning to return the recording studio in January to continue working on the next album. According to guitarist Ed O’Brien, the band are looking forward to this next session.
“The vibe in the camp is fantastic at present, and we head off into the studio in January to continue on from the work we started last summer,” he wrote on Radiohead.com. “I am so genuinely excited about what we’re doing, but for obvious reasons I can’t divulge anything more.”
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Monday, September 14, 2009 12:35PM - By Jeffrey Hyatt
Should the whole rock star thing get tiresome, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien can always hit the lecture circuit. O’Brien has been invited to deliver the keynote address at the digital music business conference MidemNet in Cannes on Jan. 23.
It’s an inspired choice; considering the affect Radiohead has had on the digital music business these last few years, O’Brien is a great selection.
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