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As fans wait for any new reports on Radiohead's seventh studio album, guitarist Ed O'Brien revealed the band's tentative plans for 2006 on Radio 1 in the U.K. late last month. "We are going to tour next year, definitely," Ed O'Brien told deejay Zane Lowe. "Hopefully we're going to have a couple of tracks to download by about April or May. But we're going to go out in May, we're going to do some theaters because part of what we're doing is playing new material. It's a good way to get your shit together."O'Brien said that Radiohead plans to play the U.K. and Europe in May, then visit America over the summer, ideally with ten new songs completed and road-tested. They do not have a set release date for the currently-untitled album, but will go back in the studio in February.
The band will be working with a new producer for the first time in a decade, with longtime associate Nigel Godrich skipping the sessions. O'Brien says that Mark "Spike" Stent (Bjork, Madonna) will producer the record. Of Godrich, O'Brien said, "It's not an end of an era, (but) part of what your realize as a band is that all those records you made with Nigel, apart from Hail To The Thief, were a little bit in the comfort zone... With Nigel, we've been working together for 10 years, and we all love one another too much."
In other Radiohead news, early demos from the band's career have surfaced, according to fan site ateaseweb.com. The band, known as On A Friday at the time, recorded the sets of demos in 1988 and 1990. Three songs from 1988 have appeared, with 15 tracks from the summer of 1990 also now floating around online.
