Phil Selway Solo Singing Debut At Seven Worlds Collide Concert

Phil Selway, Radiohead’s drummer, made his live solo singing debut at Neil Finn’s Seven Worlds Collide concert in Auckland, NZ.

Phil Selway announced right before performing that he was going to play an original tune, The Family Madness, that he wrote days before the concert, honoring the Finn family. Then as he played the acoustic guitar he performed a short ballad.

Ed O’Brien And Phil Selway Joining New Seven Worlds Collide Project

Radohead’s Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway at the end of this year will join Neil Finn again for the follow-up to the Seven Worlds Collide project. They will be recording a new album with brand new material supporting Oxfam’s international development organization.

The original line-up returning for the Seven Worlds Collide Project is Neil Finn, Phil Selway, Ed O’Brien, Lisa Germano, Johnny Marr, Liam Finn and bassist Sebastian Steinberg from Soul Coughing. There will be other artists to join the project which will include Glenn Kotche, John Stirrat, Jeff Tweedy, Wilco’s Pat Sansone plus songwriters Don and Runda McGlashan. Jim Scott, master recording engineer, will be doing the mixing. In the coming weeks, other names are expected to be added to the line-up.
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Phil Selway’s birthday

Phil Selway, the great drummer of Radiohead had his birthday on Friday, 23 May (according to wiki). Phil is now 41 years old (he was born in 1967). Selway celebrated his birthday at home! As we know, the band has a break before the european part of the tour begins on June 6 in Dublin at Malahide!
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Radiohead criticize EMI

Before Radiohead leave EMI, they were probably the most important band under that label! After the “divorce” the band released a very succesfull album, In Rainbows! What EMI would do in order to take advantage of the band’s top popularity? Just to create a “Greatest hit“! Till then, Radiohead had never released a similar compilation!

So it is not a surprise that the band  won’t support this movement! Radiohead members criticised this idea in the past (remember Phil and Ed sayings).  Thom Yorke recently came into this, saying that Radiohead have never had a real hit: “We haven’t really had any hits so what exactly is the purpose? It’s a wasted opportunity. If we’d been behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good.”

In addition, Thom Yorke denied rumours that the band asked 10 millions from EMI in order to come back!

PS: Radiohead will rest for two days before they start touring again! It is time for me to rest also!

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