Radiohead Tickets—jonny Greenwood’s Cinematic Debut
By: preme | On: 16 Sep, 2009
Radiohead tickets are now available at Stubhub.com, and can be purchased or sold on the Web site.
Radiohead is now considered one of the biggest bands on the planet, and certainly an institution among indie rock fans that like their bands a little more artsy. They’re on tour again, and Radiohead tickets will no doubt sell out quickly.
But while the band itself has become infamous for its chilly pop and paranoia, its members have also started to go off on their own and develop independent music projects. Frontman Thom Yorke has done this with “The Eraser.” Jonny Greenwood has also done this with a solo career, releasing two soundtracks in the past few years.
In 2003, he released a soundtrack to a film called Bodysong, a documentary about human life composed of a mixture of amateur video and well-known media clips. The film follows the various stages of human life, including birth, the teenage years with all their awkwardness, adulthood, rearing children and the bliss of domestic life, and finally the waning years of old age and death. Greenwood’s score provides an important commentary on the scenes themselves, as they’re often presented without narration, so the music sets the tone and intention of the filmmaker when certain scenes are presented. Flowing from jazzy to electronic, the score was hailed as an interesting new move from Greenwood by music critics, and many Radiohead fans perked up as well, hopeful to see Greenwood accomplish more movie scores in the near future.
They were pleased to find that Greenwood was taken on to work with P.T. Anderson on There Will Be Blood, the 2007 film that vied for the Best Picture Oscar with No Country For Old Men. With its epic scope about the steady climb and gradual unraveling of a callous oil man, a strong score was needed that could match the impressive images crafted by Anderson. At times, the score almost suggested a horror film, with the monster at the center of the movie being the misanthropic oil prospector Daniel Plainview. Set to a montage of him scouting land and amassing a fortune, what the music suggests we should be afraid of is his forceful will.