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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.

This steamy footage needs more viewing: http://youtu.be/brcpslv_6O4

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Mar 14, 2012

@ChieftanMews:This steamy footage needs more viewing: http://youtu.be/brcpslv_6O4

Mew’s tweeted this along with a link to the clip for OCDC from the new album by the same name by Get The Blessing suggesting that it was deserving of more views.

The Video has the following description on Youtube:

Uploaded by thisistheblessing on Feb 21, 2012

The new album ‘OCDC’ by Get The Blessing out 5th March on Naim Jazz Records

Preorder your copy HERE
Download iTunes EXCLUSIVE version – http://itunes.apple.com/gb/preorder/oc-dc/id501244309

Video by John Minton (Mintonfilm.co.uk)
http://www.gettheblessing.co.uk

Get The Blessing is a Bristol based jazz rock quartet formed in 2000 by Jim Barr and Clive Deamer who last year joined Radiohead as a additional drummer to perform material from The King of Limbs live. OCDC is their third album. Their previous albums are ‘All is Yes’ and ‘Bugs in Amber’ which the band released under the shorter name of ‘The Blessing’.


( Photo from: All About Jazz.com )

Like Phillip Selway it seems Clive Deamer can hold his own as a singer with the band releasing a exclusive version of Bugs In Amber on Youtube titled Moot that features Clive Deamer’s lead vocals.

Clive also has been providing backing vocals on Cut A Hole, one of the new Radiohead songs debuted during the American leg of the 2012 Tour.

If you’re in the UK you can catch the band playing on the following dates, although it appears they’ve got a different drummer due to Clive Deamer being on tour with Radiohead:

22/Mar/2012 – Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK
23/Mar/2012 – NCEM, York, UK
24/Mar/2012 – Kazimier, Liverpool, UK
28/Mar/2012 – Hare and Hounds, Birmingham, UK
29/Mar/2012 – Boileroom, Guildford, UK
03/Apr/2012 – Ronnie Scott’s, London, UK
04/Apr/2012 – Ronnie Scott’s, London, UK

You can find OCDC along with their previous albums on iTunes or buy it direct from their website here for 11 Pounds or 12 Pounds for postage outside the UK.

Come To Florida http://t.co/2WE81HE @jerkyboysjohnny : IMS MENOO : @ghostfacekillah http://t.co/dFDtCMd

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Feb 23, 2010:

@ChieftanMews: Come To Florida http://t.co/2WE81HE @jerkyboysjohnny : IMS MENOO : @ghostfacekillah http://t.co/dFDtCMd

Mew’s tweeted this while Radiohead where due to kick off the start of their 2012 World Tour in Miami Florida.

The first part of the tweet is addressed to Johnny Brennan the creator of Jerky Boys and Family Guy.

The link takes you to a youtube video taken from The Jerky Boys 2 that appears to be a prank call asking for ‘Pablo Honey to Please come to Florida’

The Jerky Boys are an American comedy duo from Queens, New York, whose routine consists of prank telephone calls and other related skits. Formed in 1989, The Jerky Boys were made up of childhood friends Johnny Brennan and Kamal Ahmed.[1] After Kamal left the act in 2000, The Jerky Boys continued on as a solo act featuring only Brennan, before going on hiatus after the 2001 release of their final album, The Jerky Tapes. The project was resurrected in 2006 and remains active today.

The calls were made by ringing up unsuspecting recipients, or in response to classified advertisements placed in local New York-based newspapers. Each call was made in character, usually with over the top voices influenced by the duo’s family members.[1]

According to their current record label, Laugh.com, the act has sold over 8,000,000 CDs since their 1993 debut.

(Source: Wikipeida )

These days Pablo Honey is better known as the name of Radiohead’s First Album.

According to FeelNumb.com Pablo Honey was named after this skit as ‘Jonny Greenwood got a bootlegged tape of The Jerky Boys in the early ’90s and he and the band listened to it non-stop. They even sampled a snippet in the song “How Do You?” ‘

The second link is to the videoclip for Daytona 500 by Ghostface Killah. The Videoclip is made of footage from Street Racer a cult Anime tv Series from the 80s.

Ghostface Killah – Daytona 500

RapExclusiveHD gives us the following information about the video:

“Daytona 500″ is the solo debut single by Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ghostface Killah, featuring The Force M.D.s, Raekwon, and Cappadonna from his 1996 solo debut album Ironman. The title is taken from the most important and prestigious race on the NASCAR calendar: Daytona 500. Released unofficially, the song didn’t chart on any charts but is considered a longtime favorite among Wu-Tang fans. The song was later added to his greatest hits album, Shaolin’s Finest.

Ghostface Killah doesn’t have a website but you can check him out here or on Last.FM

Mew’s states that IMS MENOO.. meaning ‘He’s Mental‘ (clearly in a good way) and addresses the tweet to Ghostface Killah’s Twitter Account.

Within 24 Hours he had deleted the tweet along with two others from the same day.

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.

I’m still banished: “ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va0w5pxFkAM&t=3m48s ”

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Aug 25, 2011:

@ChieftanMews: I’m still banished: “ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va0w5pxFkAM&t=3m48s ” ?

Mew’s stated that he was banished to the Zigg on Jul 12, 2011.

The link goes to minute 3:46 of the videoclip for PJ Harvey’s The Words that Maketh Murder from the album Let England Shake released on the 6th of February 2011

At 3:46 it shows a finger pointing to a small image of a car driving along a highway being projected on a screen.

PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke have worked together a couple of times in the past singing backup on her He sang backing vocals on Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea along with a duet of This Mess We’re In.