Phil and John McCusker to produce album

In an interview with newspaper The Scotsman, Scottish producer John McCusker said he's going to produce an album with our favorite drummer Phil Selway later this year.

more news will follow

Cupcakes

Deerhoof are releasing their new album, 'Friend Opportunity' next week. Drummer Greg Saunier talked to JunkMedia about their tour with Radiohead last year. You have been playing quite a few high profile shows lately. What was it like for the band to open up for Radiohead?

Greg Saunier: "Everybody knows what an uncommon live group they are, and even with years of buildup and knowing there was no way they could live up to the legend, they were so much better than even my highest expectation that my whole outlook on the world had to be immediately revised. But what people might not know is that they are so great in person. All five of them, and everyone in their enormous crew, were all so sweet to us. They really supported our music. If one of John's pedals got busted, someone from their crew would immediately offer to help. Someone from the band watched us from the side of the stage almost every night. Phil brought us cupcakes. Jonny brought us champagne and offered to play on our album, until he heard some rough mixes and said it already sounded done. Jonny did our light show in Amsterdam. He even used the strobe light which wasn't allowed. Ed asked us how we got our guitar tone, [because] he wanted to steal it. When Radiohead had a night off in Dublin, and Deerhoof had our own show in a small club, how did Thom spend his free time? He came to our show and danced like crazy. Colin kept taking our picture and posting pictures of us on Radiohead's website, and he'd imitate Satomi's dance during their show. Jim Warren, who does their sound mix, said he'd be happy to do ours as well and went and studied one of our albums to research what we wanted our mix to sound like. I do not expect this sort of treatment from any band, let alone a band on the level of Radiohead. They are disproving every truism about how famous people are supposed to act, and that taught us a beautiful lesson."

We, from 'The Phillovers', knew Phil was an expert in the field of cupcakes. He often makes them for our Phillover Fan days. Those on that picture are the ones he made for our last meeting. Phil promised to bring the cupcakes for our next Phillover Fan days in Iceland. This will be the first fan meeting where the other Radiohead band members will be present.

The Official Phillover logo

Phil posts on Dead Air Space again

Late tonight Phil posted these seven pictures on Dead Air Space from "the seaside and elsewhere"



Pictured above is Ed trying to find his long lost pet seahorse.



Nigel Godrich (producer) hopefully speculating the release date of ep7 with Jonny. This is no time to talk about the weather.



Jonny sitting in the studio, looking pretty.



Ed and his plant sit in studio, looking pretty as well.



Colin likes rock and water. Especially when they are together.



Phil titled this picture as "shadow of my former self". The man keeps getting slimmer. Looking good there, Phil.



Stanley, supposedly painting new artwork for Radiohead's upcoming release. It looks wonderful and reminds of the Kid A and Amnesiac landscape artwork.

I see you Phil.. shaking ya ass, shaking ya ass, shaking ya ass!

Phil's Booty Dance is back!

Woo!The cult video of Phil shaking his booty has returned to its praisers.

Thanks to Robin :)

phil with hair

ok.......after abuse from goudvis......and er........atease crashing i thought i'd bring a very important point forward.....

me and fellow phillovers have been musing over what phil would look like with a substantial amount of hair....the following conclusion was reached























pretty huh?

Radiohead at Sziget Festival, Budapest: An encounter with Phil

On her trip to see Radiohead at the Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary, the lovely 27 year old Natasha tells us the story of how she met Phil :

We were walking around city all day.One of the bridges across Danube was closed for traffic and we decided to go there. There was a lot of things going on, from folk dancing to preparing food. There in the crowd i spot Phil. He was with some friends. I started shaking. My friends thought that i should aproach to him but i was to scared. So we followed them accross the bridge.When we reached the other bank, Phil noticed that im staring and gave a a big smile. My friend aproached to him and told him that i wanted to talk to him but that im to shy. He looked at me and said "awwwwwwwwwww" biggrin.gif. That was so cute. So he gave me his autograph and we talked a bit. I told him that i brought some drawings and a letter for Thom. He was all like "oh cool you can give it to me then" ----but you see im an idiot. I didnt have them on me.I have left them in the bus........im such an idiot. So i aked him will it be possible to give it to Thom after or before the gig and he said something like "Yeah,it is possible,but it does not depend on us but the organizers. If they would let you in. We would." And i said that ill try. And he said OK. So he took my hand and told me that hes glad he met me, i said the same and he went off. After that, i had the feeling that everything is just perfect. I thought that i was gonna explode from happiness.

thank you, Natasha.