JONNY GREENWOOD & THOM YORKE OF RADIOHEAD BY ANDI WATSON

PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED FILM STILLS BY STAGE AND LIGHTING DESIGNER ANDI WATSON DURING RADIOHEAD'S 2008 IN RAINBOWS TOUR, AND LIVE PHOTOGRAPHY BY MONIKA BIELSKYTE DURING READING FESTIVAL, 2009, IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE002. A PREVIEW OF THE FEATURE IS ONLINE.

RADIOHEAD WILL BE TOURING THROUGHOUT EUROPE, AUSTRALIA, AND NEW ZEALAND FROM SEPTEMBER, 2012. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE radiohead.com

SOME/THINGS AGENCY PORTFOLIO

We're currently updating the SOME/THINGS AGENCY PORTFOLIO, which includes styling, photography, concept, & production work by SOME/THINGS for artists, designers, & clients including RICK OWENS, THEO ANGELOPOULOS, RADIOHEAD, JARVIS COCKER, BETONY VERNON, & MICHAEL NYMAN, among others.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CLIENT LIST, & AGENCY PORTFOLIO visit SOME/THINGS AGENCY



BETONY VERNON WEARING PARADISE FOUND JEWELLERY, JEAN PAUL GAULTIER ARCHIVE CORSET, MOON YOUNG HEE ORGANZA SKIRT, HAIDER ACKERMANN LEATHER BELT & ZIPPED SKIRT, & THIMISTER COUTURE PLEATED SKIRT, photographed by MONIKA BIELSKYTE for SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE003

WATCHING RADIOHEAD SOME 2 YEARS AGO

ENDLESS IMAGE EDITING... 2 WEEKS LEFT TO GO TILL ISSUE004 GOES TO PRINT. THINKING OF CONVERSATIONS WITH ANDI. ITS ALL ABOUT LIGHT. SO IMPORTANT NOT TO FORGET THAT. SO EASY TO SLIP & END UP DOING JUST FORMS.

ISSUE003 INSPIRATIONS NO3 (JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE / RADIOHEAD)

JUST AS YOU TAKE MY HAND / JUST AS YOU WRITE MY NUMBER DOWN / JUST AS THE DRINKS ARRIVE / JUST AS THEY PLAY YOUR FAVORITE SONG / AS YOUR BLATHER DISAPPEARS / NO LONGER WOUND UP LIKE SPRING / BEFORE YOUVE HAD TOO MUCH / COME BACK & FOCUS AGAIN

FIRST GLIMPSE INTO RADIOHEAD & ANDI WATSON ARTICLE

FTHE ENTIRE 26 PAGES ARTICLE (6 PAGES INTERVIEW & 22 NEVER PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IMAGES OF RADIOHEAD) IS ONLY IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE002 / THE BLACK BOOK PRINTED EDITION BUT YOU CAN READ INTERVIEW EXTRACTS & SEE SOME IMAGES IN SOMESLASHTHINGS.COM/MAGAZINE/

ISSUE002 PROTOTYPE

IT SEEMS PRODUCTION WORKS HAVE TAKEN FOREVER BUT WE ARE FINALLY BACK IN PARIS & HAPPY HOLDING SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE002 PROTOTYPE IN OUR HANDS - 302 PAGES OF LABOR & LOVE. MORE IMAGES & INFORMATION SOON & IN THE MEANTIME HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY THIS PREVIEW IMAGE OF RADIOHEAD / ANDI WATSON 26 PAGES ARTICLE


PS. IT'S THE YEAR OF THE TIGER, XIN NIAN KUAI LE!!

THOM YORKE BY ANDI WATSON

AN IMAGE OF THOM YORKE BY ANDI WATSON FROM 20+ PAGES FEATURE ON MORE THAN 15 YEARS COLLABORATION BETWEEN ANDI & RADIOHEAD, IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE002 / THE BLACK BOOK

ANDI WATSON LIGHTS FOR RADIOHEAD

FROM THE SHOOTING OF THE LAST RADIOHEAD WORLDTOUR SHOW WITH THE INCREDIBLE LIGHT SYSTEM DEVELOPED BY ANDI WATSON, ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING LIGHT DESIGNERS EVER. ANDI HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE BAND SINCE THEIR EARLIEST CONCERTS IN EARLY 90S. MORE SOON XX

ANDI WATSON / RADIOHEAD IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE002 / THE BLACK BOOK

MONIKA BIELSKYTE / YOU HAVE BEEN COLLABORATING WITH RADIOHEAD FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS NOW, HOW DID YOU MEET THEM & HOW DID YOU DECIDE TO WORK TOGETHER?



ANDI WATSON / I FIRST MET THEM WHEN THEY WERE THE SUPPORT ACT FOR A BAND I WAS WORKING WITH. WE WERE PLAYING TINY PLACES & AT THAT TIME THEY HAD ANOTHER DESIGNER WORKING FOR THEM. I THOUGHT THEY WERE AMAZING & WAS DELIGHTED WHEN THEY ASKED ME TO DO THEIR LIGHTING AFTER THE ORIGINAL DESIGNER HAD LEFT TO PURSUE HIS MUSICAL ASPIRATIONS.



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MB / WHICH OF THE RADIOHEAD TOURS WERE HARDEST & WHY? WHICH TOURS SEEM MOST MEMORABLE FOR YOU? CAN YOU TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE LIGHTS YOU’VE BEEN USING FOR THEM?



AW / MOST OF THE TOURS HAVE BEEN PRETTY TOUGH AT THE BEGINNING, ALTHOUGH IN THE PAST I HAD ALMOST NO TIME TO PROGRAM THE HUGE NUMBER OF SONGS THE BAND WANTED TO PLAY. ON THE LAST FEW TOURS I HAVE HAD MUCH MORE PRODUCTION REHEARSAL TIME BUT WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO ACHIEVE HAS BEEN WAY, WAY MORE. THE LAST TOUR WAS PROBABLY THE MOST COMFORTABLE BECAUSE IT WAS JUST SO INSTANTLY BEAUTIFUL & FLEXIBLE.

IN TERMS OF THE ACTUAL EQUIPMENT, WE PROBABLY FOLLOWED A PRETTY HISTORICALLY ACCURATE PATH. FOR THE FIRST FEW TOURS I DIDN’T WANT TO USE MOVING LIGHTS, JUST USING FIXED INCANDESCENT LAMPS, MOVING ON TO COLOUR CHANGING FIXED LAMPS. THE FEEL WAS PERHAPS MORE TRADITIONALLY THEATRICAL ON THOSE TOURS. THEN WE DID SEVERAL TOURS WITH MOVING LIGHT RIGS, EVEN ADDING THE LASER IN THE TENT, BEFORE THE ‘HAIL TO THE THIEF’ TOUR WITH THE PIXELLINE LED WALL CONTROLLED FROM THE CUSTOM CATALYST SOFTWARE. THE TOUR AFTER THAT INVOLVED A COMPLEX CAMERA SYSTEM FOR THE FIRST TIME & AN EVEN MORE COMPLEX MULTIPLE PROJECTION SYSTEM. FINALLY, OF COURSE, THE ALL-LED ‘IN RAINBOWS’ DESIGN WITH ITS 3D VIDEO SCREEN OF VERTICAL PIXEL ELEMENTS MADE UP OF ELEMENT LABS VERSATUBE HD UNITS & THE MULTI REMOTE CAMERA SYSTEM USED TO CREATE MUCH OF THE VIDEO SCREEN OUTPUT.





Excerpt from A CONVERSATION WITH ANDI WATSON. ENTIRE 26 PAGE FEATURE ONLY IN PRINTED EDITION OF SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE002 / THE BLACK BOOK







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