Latest Radiohead Demo - A Hoax!
The apparently old Radiohead song that circulated in the internet a week ago was actually not a Radiohead song at all. It is from a Canadian singer/songwriter Christopher Stopa called “Sit Still”. Check out the CNN report above.
Authentic Radiohead (On A Friday) 1986 Unreleased Demo
Below are the real old demos of Radiohead when they were still called On A Friday (the name of the band before Jonny Greenwood joined them). After 25 years, these songs made their way to the internet. Check them out below.
Everybody Knows
Girl (In The Purple Dress)
Fragile Friend
Fat Girl
Lemming Trail
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Courtesy of klootme, you can sample five of early On A Friday/Radiohead previously unreleased demos from their first 1986 demo tape below. Enjoy!
Everybody Knows
Girl (In The Purple Dress)
Fragile Friend
Fat Girl
Lemming Trail
The earliest known demo tape comes from 1986. The remixes on the end are reportedly bizarre sort of dub versions where the vocals pretty much cut in and out at random. It was apparently recorded at the music room of Abingdon School.
The recordings from this tape were the last to surface of all OAF demo tapes. They were uploaded to Youtube from october 2011 onwards by the member Klootme. She explained: “History behind the tape is that my husband was at school with the band and partied with them (before Jonny joined them!). Phil was at Uni with us both in Liverpool. The demo was given to my husband at 17 in school. We used to go and see them play in Oxford and was friends with them. They were fairly inactive from 1987 -1990 as a band. But when everyone had finished Uni they got back together and tried to make a go of it. They went to the States…we went backpacking to India for 6 months. Six months later we retured from India…saw Colin with a binbag full of laundry at the lauderette…..”so much for the States” we laughed…….” I remember seeing them in Oxford where me and my husband made up an audience of 6!”
Tracklist:
Fragile Friend
Girl (In The Purple Dress)
Everybody Knows
Mountains (On The Move)
Fat Girl
Lemming Trail
Lock The Door
Fragile Friend (Remix)
Lemming Trail (Remix)
Lock The Door (version)
In The Breeze
To check out other On A friday/Radiohead early demos, visit http://citizeninsane.eu/onafriday.html
