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This is wrong on so many levels. Someone correct this or ramifications will be distributed: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/chieftan

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Apr 1, 2012

@ChieftanMews: This is wrong on so many levels. Someone correct this or ramifications will be distributed: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/chieftan

Chieftan Mews interrupted his Q&A with a link to Websters Online Dictionary (Not to be mistaken with the official Merriam-Webster Website ) where they provided the following definition of ‘Chieftan’

“Chieftan” is a common misspelling or typo for: chieftain, chieftains, chief tan.

Common Expressions: chieftan

Expressions : Definition
Chieftan Mews : Chieftan Mews is an english actor employed by Radiohead to present The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time. He is currently on the run and believed to be hiding out in Tunisia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Common Expressions: chieftan
Expressions : Definition
Chieftan Mews : Chieftan Mews is an english actor employed by Radiohead to present The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time. He is currently on the run and believed to be hiding out in Tunisia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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The entry for Chieftan was added by Philip M. Parker the editor and creator of the Websters Online Dictionary, and while no references are linked it’s possible he had been reading AtEase which had a news item on the 15th of December 2004 stating:

A recent report indicated that Chieftan may have been spotted in Tunisia….

The report refers to http://www.ChieftanMews.com which in 2004 was owned by the band and appeared to have contained various messages from Chieftan Mews before redirecting to http://www.Radiohead.tv

Since 2009 ChieftanMews.com is again an active URL but doesn’t appear to be owned by Radiohead or anyone associated with them.

While no correction has been made in the past 10 years to update the fact that Chieftan Mews is not a actor nor employed by Radiohead the nature of the web means that those ‘facts’ have now been cited widely online with QWika and tvwiki where someone has added:

Chieftan Mews is an english actor employed by Radiohead to present The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time. While talking, his mouth often moves and rolls in unnatural ways, leading some to believe he is not human. He is currently on the run and believed to be hiding out in Tunisia.

Throughout the filming of “Radiohead.tv”, Singer Thom Yorke and presenter Chieftan Mews apparently got in a fist fight of sorts. According to Yorke, “Mews (Chieftan) just grabbed me during teatime and proceeded to scream into my face about paying him his damn money”. At this point, York responded by kicking Mews in the face, resulting in a broken nose. The flurry of punches that ensued by both men had to be broken up by Producer Nigel Godrich.

While Mew’s instructs someone to correct the errors unlike Wikipedia the Websters Online Dictionary is not editable by just anyone, instead edits are made by emailing the editor. Being a Hotmail address it’s possible the email no longer works today.

In December 2010 Tunisia hit headlines around the world due to massive protests helped in part by social networking bringing about a democratic revolution inspiring neighboring countries including Egypt and Libya in what came to be known as the Arab Spring movement. On the 8th of February 2011 Ed O’Brien posted his own feelings towards The Dignity Revolution (as the Tunisian revolution had come to be called) on Dead Air Space adding:

What have twitter and facebook ever done for us?

Obviously, keeping in touch with everyone but I have to say I have become increasingly excited over the last 3 months about the possibilities of this form of communication.Yes I am very slow out of the blocks. It’s in the arena of public protest that it seems twitter and facebook are increasingly the means by which popular movements throughout the world are able to come together and mobilise.

I have been so moved by the peaceful Jasmine revolution in Tunisia; The anti-Government demonstrations centred on Tahrir Square in Cairo.. Social networking has helped facilitate the freedom to assemble peacefully and express oneself. Equally in Britain it seems to be having a similar effect in helping essential protests being organised by students and groups such as UK Uncut against the Government’s ill thought out cuts … Well done those people!
Ed

Oui Emil, yes, Mañana es 32 de Marzo. Q&A questions due 24 hours from now Kiritimati time. I want your freedoms.

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@ChieftanMews: Oui Emil, yes, Mañana es 32 de Marzo. Q&A questions due 24 hours from now Kiritimati time. I want your freedoms.

Mew’s tweeted this in reply to Emil’s tweet reminding him that Tomorrow is the 32nd of March:

@EmilioGuardado: Mañana es 32 de Marzo! ( @ChieftanMews )

Last year on March 32nd (April 1st) Chieftan Mews ran a Twitter Q&A with Fans over in which he answered 18 questions.

With tomorrow marking exactly a year since that day Chieftan Mew’s replied with news that he is going to do another Q&A this year.

He provided the following deadline to have your questions tweeted to him by:

24 hours from now Kiritimati time.

Kiritimati is another name for Christmas Island and suggests that all questions should be received by 6:43:00 AM LINT (UTC/GMT +14 hours )

‘I want your freedoms.’ suggests that he wants our time/attention.

“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncmg3bxtTB0

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May 15, 2011:

@ChieftanMews “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncmg3bxtTB0

One of two links to Youtube Chieftan Mews sent out on the same day both linked Youtube videos of BBC Test Card F titled ‘BBC Test Card F (1978)’.

“The time now very nearly 3 o clock, the next program on bbc1 Songs of Praise follows at 3.15 after a trade test transmission…”

A Youtube commenter names the piece of music as ‘Finally, swing-time’ by Pit Fontana’s New Sound. According to TestcardCircle.uk that song was used during the 2nd half of 1978 to early 1979.

Mew’s tweeted a 2nd Testcard after this one ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6SmOBxP9-g ; Test 2 ), however the second tweet was not deleted until the 20th of March 2012. You can read more about it, and the history of Test Card F here.

Songs of Praise is a weekly religious program first broadcast in 1961 early on Sunday mornings. Consisting of church hymn’s it still runs today and is broadcast in a number of countries.

In 2007 Adam Buxton uploaded a parody of Songs of Praise providing his own subtitles to the program with amusing results:

Adam Buxton is British DJ and Comedian who in 2007 helped Radiohead with their Thumbs_Down webcast to celebrate the release of In Rainbows.

A fan of the band he wrote a nice long detailed blog post about the whole thing here on his website, and later in 2008 entered his own (rather hilarious) remix for the Reckoner remix competition:

Adam Buxton Reckoner Remix

On the 29th of November 2011 Adam Buxton ran a live BUG Music Video’s special evening focusing on Radiohead’s career, during which he screened some behind the scenes footage of the recording of Thumbs_Down, Previous video clips from the band and a interview with Jonny and Colin. Described as a ‘one off’ Adam repeated the event in Los Angeles on February 2nd 2012.


( Source : Yelp.com )

A Silly Blog carries a nice review and description of the event Here.

One of the most interesting bits of trivia from the program refers to a In Rainbows Scrapbook mentioned in the Bug Program notes as a ‘proposed but ultimately unreleased DVD ‘scrapbook’ from the In Rainbows period’.


(Source: Attributed to Ian Davies by Auntie Nubbins of A Silly Blog )

Adam Buxton is on twitter as AdamRealBuxton and is one of the accounts Chieftan Mews follows on Twitter.

At 0:36 I appear in the Zigg only to disappear and reflect to the dark side of the moon. http://t.co/Qw0PTnn stuck help #10 of 10 / #10: Please @ 1 song that makes you feel energetic & write about it in 1 sentence. (1 answer only, #10 expires August 11, 2011 at 00:00 GMT)

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Aug 4, 2011:

@ChieftanMews: At 0:36 I appear in the Zigg only to disappear and reflect to the dark side of the moon. http://t.co/Qw0PTnn stuck help #10 of 10

@ChieftanMews: #10: Please @ 1 song that makes you feel energetic & write about it in 1 sentence. (1 answer only, #10 expires August 11, 2011 at 00:00 GMT)

On Facebook this read as:

#10: Please message me 1 song that makes you feel energetic. Write about it in one sentence. (1 answer per person or disqualified/blocked. #10 expires August 11, 2011 at 00:00 GMT)

Chieftan Mews first tweets a link to a video Servo posted to Chieftan Mew’s Facebook wall on August 1st:

Screenshot of Mew's Reply to a question on Facebook, August 1st, 2011.

Servo took the video loop from www.the-ziggurat.com and posted to Youtube on July 31st 2011. The link takes you to 0:36 in the film where a head can be seen to the bottom left of the picture outlined in green and blue.

On the 3rd of August Chieftan Mews replied to the video with:

My face emerges at the 30 second mark at the lower/central portion of the screen and then disappears a short time later. Please call a plumber or a lumberjack immediately.

Starting on July 6th 2011 Chieftan Mews stated that he’d been banished to The Ziggurart ( I am stuck in here with some juicy footage: http://www.the-ziggurat.com – Please call a medic or psychiatrist for me immediately. ␄ ) in return for removing footage of Supercollider from The King of Limbs – Live From The Basement ( that buck, took me out of the final cut so I took Supercollider & some juicy footage before being banished to the Zigg. Stuck.Help ) .

The Dark Side of the Moon is the title of Pink Floyd’s eighth album released in 1973, a album compared to OK Computer it also happens to show a prism separating a rainbow out of white light on it’s cover. In Rainbows being the band’s previous album for which the moving rainbow blocks video where made.


( Original cover for Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon – Source : Wikipedia )

Similar to the Ziggurat film was a videoclip for Videotape made for the end of the 2007 Thumbs_Down webcast featuring Thom Yorke’s face turning into a mess of coloured blocks.

Thom ended up uploading the video to Dead Air Space on the 12 of February 2008 with the following message:

RED BLUE GREEn +

had a niggling feeling that this never really got seen much.
Its a kind of video thing to go with Videotape using lots of wierd techniques we were messing with.
Nigel and I really enjoyed making it at the end of last year.
It appeared at the end of a webcast which i think was lost due to transmission problems.
So here it is (roughly) for you to see again.
x
Thom

The original video on DAS is gone but you can still watch it on Citizen Insane.

The #10 of 10 suggested that there was a series of 10 tweets to come, this proved to be correct as it was followed by the first of ten weekly questions asking for fans to respond with their own answers.

Fan’s where given a choice between responding on Facebook or Twitter, two of the most popular Social Networks as of 2011.

@ is a symbol used to direct a message on Twitter therefore requesting fans to tweet him directly with @ChieftanMews.

With Facebook it seemed he wished to receive the replies as Private Messages, of which he would take only 1 per person on threat of banning them so they could no longer send him messages or view his Facebook page.

The difference has to do with a design limitation that on Twitter you can only send messages to people who follow you. This means that while Chieftan Mews was able to send Direct Messages (DMs) to fans following him they would not be able to reply or send their own without Mew’s following them first.

While ’1 answer per person or disqualified/blocked.’ on Facebook seems to suggest a competition to date there’s been nothing suggesting that Mew made direct use of the answers offered to him by fans, or that there was any organized prize for answering his messages correctly.

Though he has been known to Directly Message or reply to peoples Facebook Posts on his wall from time to time it’s unknown if Chieftan Mew’s replied to any of the suggestions given to him in response to his questions.

All up the questions where:

Aug 11, 2011:
@ChieftanMews: #9 of 10: What is your personal definition of: ‘freedom’? (exp. 18-Aug)

Aug 18, 2011:
@ChieftanMews: #8 of 10: http://t.co/IAEHtG1 Have you really considered that you have been lied to constantly since you were born? (Expires Aug 25 or so)

Aug 24, 2011:
@ChieftanMews: #6/10: Which artist of today reminds you of the John Heartfield of yestercentury? (#7 expires Sept 1, #6 expires Sept 8) #rigid #tkol

Aug 25, 2011:
@ChieftanMews: #7/10: No more hiding: “The atom had a positive, a negative & a neutral” & “Later for the date than the hadron collider” & “I am open.” ??

Sep 8, 2011:
@ChieftanMews: #5/10: What’s on agenda at the World Policy Forum in Yaroslavl? Congrats to PJ for answering last week, you won a prize.

Sep 15, 2011:
@ChieftanMews: 4/10: Leaves fall & then grow again. From the same branches. The sounds they make can change too. .. … Kid is now an Adult?

Sep 21, 2011:
@ChieftanMews: 3/10: You all snap snap snap. Expect a rabbit out of my ass. Please don’t judge me. Are you feeling Feral? Snap snap snap all you: 10/3

Sep 27, 2011:
@ChieftanMews: 2/10: Why do some assume this is a countdown instead of a quiz?

Oct 7, 2011:
@ChieftanMews: 1/10: Was/Is this all a w.a.s.t.e. of your/our time? Stay detuned.. .. .. .. .. .␄

After which Mew’s tweeted that he was now free of the Ziggurart (Like you, once again, I am a free fugitive of life..

We’d love to hear what answers other people sent to Mew’s ‘quiz’!
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#8 of 10: http://t.co/IAEHtG1 Have you really considered that you have been lied to constantly since you were born? (Expires Aug 25 or so)

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Aug 18, 2011:

@ChieftanMews: #8 of 10: http://t.co/IAEHtG1 Have you really considered that you have been lied to constantly since you were born? (Expires Aug 25 or so)

The 3rd of a series of 10 weekly questions asked by Chieftan Mews.

In this case it came with a link to The King of Limbs – Live from The Basement on the Offical Radiohead Youtube Channel which the band have been using since 2005 to host their videoclips and some webcast material for In Rainbows and The King of Limbs. They also uploaded all of the remixes from TKOL-RMX 1234567 and The Daily Mail/Staircase along with The King of Limbs on the day the album was released in stores.

Radiohead reported on Dead Air Space that there had been a issue getting The King of Limbs – From The Basement shown in the UK, apologizing for the delay on July 20th as “the original broadcaster decided not to show it”.

On June 5th 2011 BBC Worldwide Music Television announced that they had signed a deal to be the international distributor for The King of Limbs – Live From the Basement.

Their press release gave the following details:

BBC Worldwide Music Television has signed a deal with Radiohead to distribute internationally a new and exclusive live performance of Radiohead’s eighth album, ‘The King of Limbs’.

Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live From The Basement is a 55-minute performance from one of the most successful and critically acclaimed acts of their generation, who have sold over 30 million albums worldwide. The programme will feature the notoriously elusive band performing the entirety of their celebrated new album in a studio setting with some additional behind the scenes material. It is scheduled to be the first time that the grammy-award winners are captured on camera this year.

The King of Limbs album was released digitally in February 2011 and physically at the end of March 2011, yet this exclusive performance will be the first time the band will have played this collection of songs in public. The band will be performing for acclaimed music show ‘From the Basement’, the brain child of production genius Nigel Godrich, who has either engineered or produced all of Radiohead’s albums since The Bends and has worked with a variety of international acts including Paul McCartney, U2, R.E.M and Air.

Having launched the title at MIPTV, BBC Worldwide has already received pre-sale offers for a number of major territories and expects to have a substantial network of broadcasters in place for its premiere.

Salim Mukaddam, VP Music Television at BBC Worldwide said, “It is a real honour to be working with Radiohead on this project. Radiohead are a band that rarely performs for television, but when they do, it’s a moment to savour. There is already huge anticipation for this performance and we’re delighted that they’ve decided to work with us at BBC Worldwide, confirming our position as market leaders in Music Television. As a fan I cannot wait to see these beautiful songs brought to life in this programme.”

Bryce Edge of Courtyard Management, Radiohead’s management company said, “This will be Radiohead’s first collaboration with BBC Worldwide and the band are excited at the prospect of having their first live performance of ‘The King of Limbs’ broadcast around the world . The band will be filmed and recorded by the From The Basement team, which includes Nigel Godrich their long time producer, Dilly Gent ,who commissioned many of the memorable Radiohead videos and Grant Gee who filmed the Radiohead documentary ‘Meeting People is Easy’”

Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement becomes available to international broadcasters in June and is embargoed for broadcast until 1st July 2011. The programme is filmed in HD, will have no audience and no presenter – just a rare opportunity to see an intimate performance from one of the greatest bands in the world.

( Source: BBC.co.uk )

On the 20th of July BBC Worldwide America announced that rights had been sold to broadcast the performance on the MTV Network in America.

The BBC Worldwide Blog carried a piece the next day written by Salim Mukaddam the Vice President of BBC Worldwide Music Television about the project:

Last year I had the opportunity to bring together my personal passion and professional life when I met with Radiohead’s management, Bryce Edge and Chris Hufford. You could not wish to meet two more welcoming, co-operative, professional and knowledgeable people. Both Chris and Bryce instantly saw the potential that a partnership with BBC Worldwide could deliver. However, any project was obviously going to be dependent on the band – thankfully the band was interested and had a project in mind.

Radiohead launched their new album ‘The King of Limbs’ in February and from that point everything seemed to happen at light speed. The band wanted to work with their long time producer Nigel Godrich. He is one of the team responsible for ‘From The Basement’ – an incredible music show that sets the benchmark for quality in music television. The band’s concept was to perform the whole of their new album for our TV project…

…The result is a beautiful fifty five minute journey into the world of Radiohead. The King of Limbs is a stunning album in itself, but seeing the band bring these songs to life is a joy to behold. The full programme is coming to a TV screen near you soon, with confirmed broadcasts on Palladia in the USA, Canal + in Spain, Fuji TV in Japan, MultiShow in Brazil and SuperChannel in Canada.

(Source: BBCWorldwide Blog)

To date Radiohead – Live from the Basement never made it to television in the UK despite broadcasts occurring in other countries such as Spain, America, Canada, Japan, Brazil and Australia. The BBC Claims that this was due to them being ‘unable to find a broadcast partner’ for the UK even with the BBC having their own broadcasting network in that region.

The ‘lie’ statement from Mews refers to the fact that the copy of The King of Limbs – Live From The Basement uploaded to Youtube was described as ‘in full’ in the Youtube Comments, Chieftan Mews had previously claimed on July 12th that the version broadcast was missing footage of Supercollider ( @nigelgod that buck, took me out of the final cut so I took Supercollider & some juicy footage before being banished to the Zigg. Stuck.Help ).

On February 3rd 2012 AustinLBrock uploaded the full recording of The King of Limbs – Live From The Basement to Youtube with the permission of the band’s management and BBC Worldwide. Unlike the original version uploaded by the band this included the footage of Supercollider from the Bluray and DVD that the band released on the 9th of November 2011.

Mew’s later retweeted a link to the video from AustinLBrock ( RT: @AustinLBrock: [1080p] Radiohead – The King Of Limbs From The Basement [Full Show + Supercollider] #Radiohead #ThomYorke http://t.co/tD0arRGD ).

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#5/10: What’s on agenda at the World Policy Forum in Yaroslavl? Congrats to PJ for answering last week, you won a prize.

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Sep 8, 2011:

@ChieftanMews: <Abbatoir noises> #5/10: What’s on agenda at the World Policy Forum in Yaroslavl? Congrats to PJ for answering last week, you won a prize.

The 5th of a series of 10 weekly questions tweeted by Chieftan Mews the World Policy Forum is a annual international conference first held in 2009 in Yaroslavl, Russia.

Wikipedia describes it as:

..a permanent international platform for on-going intellectual discussions and practical definition of directions of development of the modern state and its role in ensuring security and stability of the modern world.

The Forum is traditionally held in Yaroslavl (Russia) under the auspices of President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

( Source: Wikipedia )

Each year’s conference is focused on a main topic and 3-4 sections, in 2011 this was ‘The modern state in the age of social diversity’ and ran on 7-8th of September.

The 3 sections where ‘Democratic institutions in multiethnic societies’, ‘The rich and the poor: where is justice?’ and ‘Global security and local conflicts’.

You can read more about it at the offical website or on Wikipedia

The second part of the tweet ‘Congrats to PJ for answering last week, you won a prize.’ is directed towards PJ Harvey who had won a Mercury Music Prize on the 6th of September for ‘Let England Shake’ making her the first artist to win it twice.

Oddly enough it was reported on Digital Spy that sales of her album increased by 1,190% on Amazon overnight following the win.

Previously on August 25th Chieftan Mew’s tweeted a link to the videoclip for The Words that Maketh Murder from Let England Shake along with the message “I’m still banished” you can read more about that here.

<Abbatoir noises> appears on a Kid A era Tour Poster titled ‘Fear Stalks the Land’ along with the lines Mobiles Chirping’ and ‘Our Name is Legion’ which Mew’s has also used in tweets (25 years. Jericho. Friday. Woods. Saturday. Living. Project. Phil’s harmonica. Ago. Carrots&sticks. Bluebook. Mobile Devices & Birds Chirp. ).


(Source: Rockfeedback.com)

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Kenneth’s Frequency

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On October 7th 2011 Chieftan Mews changed his location to Kenneth’s Frequency, a tribute to the title of a R.E.M song named ‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’.

Screenshot of Mew's Twitter Profile taken by Inkybrown on October 7, 2011

Previously on September 22nd a fan posted a Youtube video of R.E.M’s videoclip for ‘The Great Beyond’ on Youtube the day after R.E.M broke up. Chieftan Mew’s simply replied to with “Aluminum” a lyric from ‘E-Bow The Letter’ which was the first single from R.E.M’s 10th album ‘New Adventures in Hi-Fi’

Mews replies to a fan on Facebook with a lyric by R.E.M

XFan: I know Radiohead cares
R.E.M. – The Great Beyond (Video)
http://www.youtube.com
© 2006 WMG The Great Beyond (Video)
22 September 2011 at 13:41 ·

Chieftan Mews: Aluminum
22 September 2011 at 17:00 · Like · 3

YFan: tastes like fear
23 September 2011 at 01:33

R.E.M was a major influence for Thom Yorke and the band who toured with them in 1995 and in 1998 Radiohead joined R.E.M to perform at the Tibetan Freedom Concert where Michael Stipe and Thom Yorke took turns joining each other on stage. You can find footage of Radiohead performing Lucky with Michael Stipe and Thom Yorke performing Be Mine and Backup on E-Bow The Letter on Youtube.

They remain close friends and Thom Yorke sometimes adds the start of ‘The One I Love’ from R.E.M’s fifth album ‘Document’ to the start of ‘Everything in It’s Right Place’ when performing live.

The date of the change to Chieftan Mew’s twitter profile marks exactly 9 years since the release of R.E.M’s 8th album ‘Automatic for the People’ which was released on the 7th of October 1992 before going on to sell 16 million copies worldwide.

What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? wasn’t from Automatic for the People, instead it was the first single from the next album ‘Monster’ from 1994. Radiohead where the support act for this tour.

Michael Stipe describes What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? as:

I wrote that protagonist as a guy who’s desperately trying to understand what motivates the younger generation, who has gone to great lengths to try and figure them out, and at the end of the song it’s completely fucking bogus. He got nowhere.

( Source: Wikipedia )

R.E.M announced on the 21st of September last year that “As lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band” on their website, they had been together 31 Years and released 15 Albums of which ‘Collapse into Now’ was their last.

Rolling Stone did a really nice interview with Thom Yorke while Radiohead where in New York last year about R.E.M’s influence on him and the band, you can read it here.

RT: @nigelgod: please god – let the weather get better for glastonbury

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Jun 18, 2011:

RT: @nigelgod: please god – let the weather get better for glastonbury @LeoJThompson

Mews retweeted this tweet from Nigel Godrich regarding hopes for better weather for the 2011 Glastonbury festival held on Wednesday the 22nd to Sunday the 26th of June 2011. Radiohead performed a “surprise” set at the festival performing on the Park Stage, their first live performance since the release of The King of Limbs and the first performance of The Daily Mail with the full band. During the show Thom admitted they they where only playing for free tickets to the festival.

Sadly Nigel’s prayers where not answered as The Guardian describes the weather during the set to be ‘pissing down’ in a review of the show.

The day before the Glastonbury was due to start Mews took to Facebook posting a video from Youtube along with a festive message on what would have been the 21st in the UK:

22 June 2011 at 06:40

Chieftan Mews
Don’t mess with the paranormal. These rocks built the druids, not the other way around. Enjoy your summer solstice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhkGATrm6zY

Stonehenge summer solstice 2011
Filmed at The Summer Solstice festival at English Heritage site Stonehenge. A man tries to climb the rocks and falls into the crowd.

Interestingly Mews must have found that video not that long after it was uploaded as the 2011 Summer Solstice festival falls on the 21st of June, the same day he posted it to Facebook.

The Guardian carried a report about the festival with a photo of another man climbing the rocks they give the following information about the event:


The summer solstice is meant to be a night and dawn of peace, love and amazement. But not all of those attending the celebrations at Stonehenge entered into the spirit of the event.

Druids, pagans and revellers watched as two men, one shirtless, staged a fist fight at the ancient monument in Wiltshire.

While the majority of the 18,000 people who attended the solstice celebrations were well-behaved, 20 arrests and almost 50 drug seizures were made.

Photographer David Hedges, who witnessed the fight, said: “They were sparring for a few minutes before they really started throwing punches.”

Spectators surrounded the pair and a couple tried to break it up before the police arrived.

The 20 arrests included 11 for drugs offences and five for public order offences. Superintendent Gavin Williams of Wiltshire police said most of the attendees “came to see the sunrise in the spirit of the event. Although it was disappointing that some individuals chose to bring drugs with them, they were dealt with robustly.”

(Source: Summer Solstice Celebrated at Stonehenge )

Amazingly it seems nobody got in trouble for climbing the rocks though Karma( or the paranormal) it seemed managed to get one of them. But it’s certainly not like any other historical site of cultural significance is routinely climbed on by visitors against the wishes of locals.. oops!.

Five hours after posting the video Mew’s added a comment to the post after two fans started having a argument in the comements. He provided a link to the videoclip for ‘Why Can’t We Be Friends’ by War from the album by the same name, and added the following message:

22 June 2011 at 12:03

Mews is trying to sleep. Why do you two have to wake him up? Take a dose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5FfJ89rGPc

You can listen to Why Can’t We Be Friends? Here

Wiki shares the following tidbits on the song:

Recorded in 1974 and released on United Artists Records in June 1975. The title song reached #8 on Billboard’s Hot 100. The original LP edition came with a poster. Two singles from the album were released: “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” backed with “In Mazatlan”, and “Low Rider” backed with “So”. Both A-sides were nominated for the Grammy Awards of 1976.

The song had been used in a wide range of films and television including Dazed and Confused, BASEketball, Lethal Weapon 4 and a 1996 episode of The Simpsons.

@stanleydonwood @nigelgod : You can’t see this message

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Jun 29, 2011:

@ChieftanMews: @stanleydonwood @nigelgod : You can’t see this message

Chieftan Mew’s negates himself here, by tagging both Stanley Donwood and Nigel Godrich (@nigelgod) in his message he assures that both can see and will be notified of his message.

Instead it’s more likely that he’s informing fans of Nigel’s new twitter account as his disused former account of @nigelgodrich has no tweets.

If @nigelgod deletes my scenes from the final cut, I will gladly show him a new way down the staircase! ␄

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Jul 1, 2011:

@ChieftanMews: If @nigelgod deletes my scenes from the final cut, I will gladly show him a new way down the staircase! ␄

On June 21st 2011 Phillip Selway announced on Dead Air Space that Radiohead had filmed a episode of From The Basement, in addition to the news was a HD quality Youtube video of a new song titled Staircase (Previously known to fans as ‘A Walk Down the Staircase’ from Thom Yorke’s solo shows and tour with Atoms For Peace in 2010).

Mew’s addresses this threat to Nigel Godrich the mastermind behind From The Basement. Started in 2006 as a Podcast From the Basement is a music program that focuses entirely on a performance doing away with the traditional format of a host and live audience. Thom Yorke performed on the first episode and Radiohead featured in a full length episode for In Rainbows – Live From The Basement.

Chieftan Mews who made his name hosting The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time clearly is not pleased with this idea and later takes revenge by withholding the footage of Supercollider performed during the set.

As usual Mews signs off with EOT (End of Transmission) to mark the final tweet for the day.