Q Magazine August 2016 Vorige editie

RADIOHEAD: THEIR GLORIOUS RETURN
One Saturday morning at the end of April, an innocuous brown envelope landed on the doormat of a handful of UK-based Radiohead fans. Inside was a charcoal piece of A5 card, with some abstract artwork at the top and a sinister message at the bottom that read: “Sing the song of sixpence that goes /Burn the witch/We know where you live.” It wasn’t signed, but in the bottom right-hand corner a cartoon bear’s head had been imprinted, a symbol recognisable to Radiohead’s dedicated followers as the nearest thing the band have to a logo. This old-school communiqué sent fans into
speculative overload. Excited recipients shared pictures online, practically every music site in the world published a story about it and BBC 6 Music ran a news piece speaking to those in possession of one. It had been over five years since the last Radiohead album and this was the beginning of a flurry of activity, like a long-dormant volcano firing out a few sparks before the eruption.