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Radiohead preview The Basement
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 22 June 2011
Having sent critics reeling with their dense and difficult new album ‘The King Of Limbs’ (and not to mention Thom Yorke’s body contortions in that ‘Lotus Flower’ video), Radiohead have provided fans with a premature glance of them playing the long player live as part of that ‘From The Basement’ TV special we reported on before, which is due to be shown on the telly like.
Earlier this week the band posted up a performance clip of what is actually a new track – ‘Staircase’ – accompanied by a quote from drummer Philip Selway, who quickly cleared up any mystery regarding the pair of identical-looking bald percussionists who feature in the video.
“No, you’re not seeing double. The doppelganger drummers are myself and Clive Deamer. Clive has long been one of my favourite drummers and so I was really excited when he agreed to perform with us. Hope you like what we’ve all done”, he said.
Anyway, here’s the clip:
