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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: punkfokinrock on January 14, 2008, 07:28:00 pm

Title: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: punkfokinrock on January 14, 2008, 07:28:00 pm
I heard the news that Radiohead is coming to DC this summer.  But I also heard a rumor that they were going to be playing at Nissan Pavilion (gag).  Can anyone confirm this?  I really don't want to have to sit in traffic at Nissan.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 14, 2008, 07:41:00 pm
Probably a bunk rumor given that Nissan isn't very public transportation-accessible.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: vansmack on January 14, 2008, 07:42:00 pm
Check the last few pages of the Just Announced (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=004729) thread and the Holy Crap Radiohead has a new Album (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=016249) thread.  There's plenty of specualtion in those threads.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: beetsnotbeats on January 14, 2008, 08:10:00 pm
So far, odds are on Verizon in May.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: audreysuefix on January 14, 2008, 08:18:00 pm
I'd rather hop a plane to anywhere than trek to Nissan to see Radiohead.  The last time I went there it took 3 hours (2 of which were the last mile).  PLEASE tell me they're playing Merriweather, or any where else in D.C.  Not Nissan, please!
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: Roger Music on January 14, 2008, 08:30:00 pm
I sat in traffic to get into Nissan and to get out of Nissan.  Ugh.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: helicon1 on January 14, 2008, 08:44:00 pm
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Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
  So far, odds are on Verizon in May.
As much as I hate to say it, an arena is a good move for them. Battling for tickets at a small theatre is a difficult chore. Although I was in the front row at their Philly show last year  ;)  Thank you W.A.S.T.E!
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: TrnSmleShiftRpt on January 14, 2008, 08:51:00 pm
Radiohead at the Virgin Festival would be perfect.  But if we can't have that, let it be Merriweather.  Anything but Nissan.  John and George would have to come back from the dead and reunite the Beatles for me to go back to Nissan.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: distance on January 14, 2008, 10:15:00 pm
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Originally posted by TrnSmleShiftRpt:
  Radiohead at the Virgin Festival would be perfect.
no it wouldn't.
 
 i had no problems getting good tickets for any of the radiohead shows i've tried to get tickets for from the three tours... and i've gotten tickets for a minimum of three shows in 01/03/06.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 14, 2008, 11:37:00 pm
How about a 7-year annivesary of Bull Run? Ah, those were the days!
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: K8teebug on January 15, 2008, 08:58:00 am
Was that really SEVEN years ago?  I will never forget entering that place to see how perfect a show we were about to witness before the waterfall started...
 
 that was a bad day.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: Chulahoma on January 15, 2008, 09:18:00 am
what about RFK?
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 15, 2008, 09:49:00 am
Terrible place to see a baseball game, even worse for a concert.
 
 
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Originally posted by bizou311®:
  what about RFK?
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: Arthwys on January 15, 2008, 09:51:00 am
There should definitely be some sort of Bull Run veterans association.  I'll never forget Thatguy coming out to announce that the show had been canceled and stripped off his shirt to look badass and keep people from having any kind of riot.  Of course, that didn't stop some joker from slip and sliding right past him a few seconds later (at least I think that's what happened, it has been 7 years).
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: distance on January 15, 2008, 10:09:00 am
must have been nice to have gotten in.
 i was stuck in traffic.  it took us about 4 hours to get there when it normally would have taken less than 1.5.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 15, 2008, 10:24:00 am
Fortunately I was spared since I was supposed to go the second day, but I remember that downpour, it was unreal. Yeah, 7 years ago...good times.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: K8teebug on January 15, 2008, 11:04:00 am
Be glad you didn't get in.  It is still depressing to think about what an unbelieveable show that would've been.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 15, 2008, 11:09:00 am
I've heard of reviewing shows you weren't at.
 
 But reviewing shows that didn't happen; that takes the cake.
 
   
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Originally posted by K8teebug:
  Be glad you didn't get in.  It is still depressing to think about what an unbelieveable show that would've been.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: Arthwys on January 15, 2008, 11:14:00 am
Let's just say that for those of us that got there at 10 am in the 90 degree heat w/ people being carted away for sunstroke at the rate of about 2-3 every hour followed by monsoon-style rain that created a lake nearly waist deep in places where all of us parked, irony doesn't even begin to describe it.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: walkonby on January 15, 2008, 11:17:00 am
there are four fucking ways to get into nissan; learn the back ways and quit bitching about how to get there you pansy fucking city slickers.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: ggw on January 15, 2008, 11:23:00 am
But its RADIOHEAD!!!!!!OMG!!!
 
 Really, Thom Yorke could just take a shit on stage and people would think it was rapturous.
 
 
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  I've heard of reviewing shows you weren't at.
 
 But reviewing shows that didn't happen; that takes the cake.
 
   
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Originally posted by K8teebug:
  Be glad you didn't get in.  It is still depressing to think about what an unbelieveable show that would've been.
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Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: kcjones119 on January 15, 2008, 11:24:00 am
Yeah, it was almost as hypothetically awesome as the Decemberists' long & short of it tour.
 
 
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  I've heard of reviewing shows you weren't at.
 
 But reviewing shows that didn't happen; that takes the cake.
 
   
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Originally posted by K8teebug:
  Be glad you didn't get in.  It is still depressing to think about what an unbelieveable show that would've been.
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Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: walkonby on January 15, 2008, 11:32:00 am
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  But its RADIOHEAD!!!!!!OMG!!!
 
 Really, Thom Yorke could just take a shit on stage and people would think it was rapturous.
 
   
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  I've heard of reviewing shows you weren't at.
 
 But reviewing shows that didn't happen; that takes the cake.
 
     
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Originally posted by K8teebug:
  Be glad you didn't get in.  It is still depressing to think about what an unbelieveable show that would've been.
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what's worse - radiohead is so big that thom could take a shit and it's rapture . . . or the fact that they're so big and you care what they do or don't do.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 15, 2008, 11:41:00 am
<img src="http://www.virginmedia.com/microsites/music/slideshow/worstalbumcovers/img_5.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
 Millie Jackson taking a dump on stage, now THAT would be rapturous. Just imagine...the tour could be sponsored by Glade and Charmin, and her roadies will leave rolls of toilet paper out for her. Now that would be a show.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: K8teebug on January 15, 2008, 01:02:00 pm
Seeing Radiohead (as well as Thievery Corporation) in what was really a glorified park would've been amazing, having seen them at Merriweather and Coachella.  Just because it didn't actually happen doesn't mean I can't have an opinion on it...
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on January 15, 2008, 01:44:00 pm
Why do people feel it necessary to sway people to not go? Yeah, state your opinion, but no one wants to hear you fuckers whine about how much a venue sucks. I'm still gonna go, others will, others won't.
 
 Jesus Christ! Relax people!
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: Shadrach on January 15, 2008, 02:23:00 pm
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Originally posted by DeathFromAbove1979:
  Why do people feel it necessary to sway people to not go? Yeah, state your opinion, but no one wants to hear you fuckers whine about how much a venue sucks. I'm still gonna go, others will, others won't.
 
 Jesus Christ! Relax people!
It doesn't look so much to me that anyone is trying to "sway" people not to go as much as just voice their dislike for Nissan and the traffic issues surrounding the place. I for one tend to agree with most of the posters here that it would have to be something so incredibly worth while to get me to sit in that traffic wasting gas outside of Nissan. Personally I'd love to see Radiohead, but not enough to go to Nissan. For others it may be worth it, just not for me.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: Brian_Wallace on January 15, 2008, 02:34:00 pm
I saw them at Merriweather a few years ago.  It was amazing.  Not the show itself but something they did AT the show.  They performed something really, really weird.  Not like anything else they did that night.  I believe it was called a "tune."  I think it was called "Creep."
 
 Brian
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: thatguy on January 15, 2008, 02:46:00 pm
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Originally posted by Arthwys:
 I'll never forget Thatguy coming out to announce that the show had been canceled and stripped off his shirt to look badass and keep people from having any kind of riot.  
i took my shirt off long before i announced that the show was canceled, and because it was wet.  it had nothing to do with badassitude.  if it helped stop a riot, so be it.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: Shadrach on January 15, 2008, 07:01:00 pm
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Originally posted by thatguy:
   
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Originally posted by Arthwys:
 I'll never forget Thatguy coming out to announce that the show had been canceled and stripped off his shirt to look badass and keep people from having any kind of riot.  
i took my shirt off long before i announced that the show was canceled, and because it was wet.  it had nothing to do with badassitude.  if it helped stop a riot, so be it. [/b]
We were all wet, some of us more than others.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: thatguy on January 16, 2008, 04:13:00 am
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Originally posted by Shadrach:
  We were all wet, some of us more than others.
i seem to recall "some of us" ending up underwater in the race to stop the rush at the main gates.  one of us almost ran over some of us with his jeep when some of us disappeared into the flood.
Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: tigersscareme on January 29, 2008, 01:26:00 pm
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Title: Re: Radiohead Rumor
Post by: tigersscareme on January 29, 2008, 01:35:00 pm
why didn't this float to the top?