MUSIC
The great
album
giveaway
Free Radiohead and
Charlatans tracks
Two established bands are releasing
their new albums for free in a bid to
change the way we buy music.
Radiohead have told fans “it’s up
to you” how much they pay for the
band’s forthcoming album, while
The Charlatans announced shortly
afterwards that they are also willing
to give their latest offering away.
Radiohead will release In Rainbows
as a download from their website with
a note asking customers whether
they’d like to pay for the music.
Customers could opt to pay as little
as 45p, the credit-card handling fee.
The album went online yesterday
at inrainbows.com.
Meanwhile, The Charlatans
announced that they are also giving
away their new album, You Cross
My Path. It will be available to
download on Xfm’s website
(xfm.co.uk) from 22 October.
Radiohead loved doing
their impression of
migrating geese
the top 5 smartest
album-selling stunts
The KLF, ’92 Fired blanks (and
threw a dead sheep) into a Brit Awards
crowd and burnt a million quid. Interest
rocketed. Shame they deleted their
back catalogue soon after.
Sandi Thom, ’06 Broadcasting gigs
from her bedroom via the net got her
an album deal and a No 1 single.
Superthriller, ’06 The band released
a blank CD letting fans choose which
25 songs they’d like on their album.
Prince, ’07 The funk-pop superstar
enraged music types by giving his
album away via the Daily Mail.
Nine Inch Nails, ’07 Deliberately
left USB drives with their singles in
toilets across the world to increase
new album sales.
Day Six: shower
still broken
GADGETS
Spies utilise
tree seeds
One is a seed used by the maple tree
to germinate, the other is the latest
technology to be implemented on
battlefields by the US Army.
The latter, codenamed the Nano Air
Vehicle (NAV), has been assigned to
Lockheed Martin – the world’s largest
defence contractor – to develop as
a new range of spy technology.
The NAV comes with two rockets
to keep it afloat, a camera and sensors
designed to detect chemical and
biological agents in the atmosphere.
“I thought the label
said anti-ageing”
TELEVISION
Notebook
British
women
invade
US TV
Michelle Ryan’s
Bionic Woman pulls
in 14 million viewers
British actresses are wielding more power on
the US small screen thanks to an onslaught
led by Michelle Ryan in Bionic Woman.
The first episode pulled in 14 million
viewers for NBC, the biggest midweek
premiere for the channel since The West Wing.
And the former EastEnder isn’t alone.
Anna Friel, the ex-Brookside star, is proving
a success with her starring role in Pushing
Daisies. The supernatural murder mystery
series has, like Bionic Woman, been snapped
up by ITV for UK screens next year.
Meanwhile Lena Headey, who played
Queen Gorgo in Spartan movie 300, has
landed the title role in The Sarah Connor
Chronicles, a Terminator spin-off. Plus
Hallam Foe’s Sophia Myles appears in
new vampire crime series Moonlight.
It wasn’t what he
expected when he signed
up for the ‘real or
plastic?’ test day
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PHOTOGRAPHS: ALPHA, REX FEATURES, WENN
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