Radiohead’s Thom Yorke is to give students the chance to help produce footage for the video of his next single “The Clock”.

Any full or part-time student enrolled in higher-education courses is eligible to enter and participates are allowed to submit as a team of no more than three people. And there aren’t many other restrictions or excessive direction placed on wannabe music video directors.

“You can do whatever you like but the promo must be a finished piece for the full duration of the track,” the instructions say. “Your visuals must follow the music…you can take the lyrics into account, reflecting the overall message of the song, but the priority is the music. Finally, remember to keep things simple!”

It might help to know the track “The Clock” is about the environment, and global warming, and that time is running out to save the planet.

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has picked up an award voted on by Radio 3 listeners in the UK. A classical piece produced by Greenwood was named favorite orchestral commission of the year in the 4th annual British Composer Awards.

Jonny Greenwood is one of the founding members of Radiohead and plays alongside his brother Colin in the band. A classically trained violist, Jonny was named the BBC’s composer-in-residence in 2004. He also plays the organ, piano, xylophone, glockenspiel, banjo and harmonica.

Greenwood received £10,000 from the London-based PRS Foundation for New Music to write another orchestral composition, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2007.

Greenwood told the Daily Telegraph that “As long as I looked down and just listened it was ok. But, if I concentrated on watching all those people spending time on my stuff, that really blew me away. That was when I knew I had to shut my eyes.”

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has donated a new track to a charity album aimed at raising funds for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Sales of the album will be limited to just 10,000 copies, and includes work from the likes of Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand and the Yeahs Yeahs.

The album is on sale now. The tracklisting is as follows:

Feist - ‘Inside and Out’ (The Audience Honey remix)
Thom Yorke - ‘Harrowdown Hill’
The Rapture - ‘Get Myself Into It’ (Prince Language Disco mix)
Cat Power - ‘Hurt’ (live on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic)
Wolfmother - ‘Dimension’ (live at Big Day Out)
Franz Ferdinand - ‘Eleanor Put Your Boots On’ (single version)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - ‘Cheated Hearts’ (Peaches remix)
Kaiser Chiefs - ‘Sink That Ship’
The Walkmen - ‘Another One Goes By’ (live)
Chris Walla - ‘Radio’
Junior Boys - ‘So Sleep’
Snowden - ‘Anti Anti’ (Jordan Stutter remix)
Favourite Sons - ‘Things That We Do To Each Other’ (live on Indie 103.1’s Dead Air)
Dustin O’Halloran – ‘Opus’

The artist behind some of Radiohead’s most interesting album covers has revealed some of the secrets behind his work, as an exhibition of his work opens in Barcelona this week.

Stanley Donwood, known by some as Radiohead’s sixth man, has work exhibited alongside ‘Dr Tchock’ - many widely believe to be the pseudonym for the band’s frontman Thom Yorke.

When quizzed to reveal the true identity of the Doctor, Donwood replied: “I’m not at liberty to say. I made a promise.”

“My painting Pacific Coast was used for Hail to the Thief,” says Donwood. “It was inspired by the landscape of LA. I was being driven along in a car and there were all these signs everywhere, big and brash, to catch your attention. I just painted everything I saw.”

Radiohead are starting to make good progress on their next studio album according to the band’s frontman Thom Yorke.

Yorke revealed: “We had a good week in the studio last week. Finally things are growing.”

The band members are enjoying a week away from the studio, a move Yorke described as “blessed”.

On the band’s Dead Air Space, Yorke also posted about the “ringing bells in his head” when it comes to the hotly debated subject of climate change.

Thom Yorke and Franz Ferdinand are amongst names involved in a new charity CD, that’s being sold at clothing shops in the US.

The 14 track compilation has been crated by Filter Magazine and the Urban Outfitters clothing chain, with profits being donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (http://www.komen.org/).

Other acts set to feature include names like The Rapture, Cat Power, Kaiser Chiefs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Wolfmother, who will be offering up remixes, b-sides, singles and live recordings. Only 10,000 copies will be pressed, with $8.99 from each copy sold going towards the cause.

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Radiohead will air a collection of their most influential music videos from the past decade at a film festival in London this coming weekend.

The film, entitled ‘Radiohead, The Visionaries: A Decade of Breaking New Talent’, will be shown on Saturday and Sunday as part of Resfest. The event is staged at the National Film Theatre, celebrating the best in music, cinema and the arts.

The Radiohead promo videos include ‘Street Spirit’, ‘Karma Police’ and ‘Paranoid Android’, while an acoustic version of ‘Creep’ will also feature.

Thom Yorke is suspected of being behind a Radiohead exhibition set that is set to open in the city of Barcelona later this month.

Artwork featured on the Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief albums will be featured in the Stanley Donwood and Dr. Tchock: Paintings, Etc. exhibition.

Donwood designs Radiohead’s album artwork, while Dr. Tchock is a pseudonym for Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.

The exhibition will be held at the Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona, between Nov 23 and Dec 16.

Thom Yorke has promised a live DVD of their ass-kicking Bonnaroo Festival performance will be released eventually.

The Radiohead frontman made the comments in a recent interview for BBC Radio 6.

“We did this festival called Bonnaroo. We did 2.5 hours. And there’s 80,000 people, admittedly they’ve been smoking the sticky green all day– probably wouldn’t go anywhere anyway. It was just amazing. We played loads of new stuff. We did whole sections of quiet piano songs and it sounds like the most grotesque, self-indulgent nonsense, but it probably is my favourite gig for years and years and years,” Yorke said. “It was a really mellow evening. Actually it’s all being filmed, but we’re sitting on it because there’s loads of new stuff on it. Because we’re mean like that. It will come out eventually.”

The playlist would look something like this if it’s true to the festival:

Thom Yorke has made a surprise selection in picking his favourite-ever Radiohead song.

Speaking on ‘The Culture Show’, the Radiohead frontman was asked to name the moment he’d most like to be remembered for.

Yorke said ‘How To Disappear Completely’ from 2000’s ‘Kid A’ album. His explanation: “because it’s the most beautiful thing we ever did, I think”