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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have announced a new project called the Smile. Joining them in the band are producer Nigel Godrich and drummer Tom Skinner (aka Hello Skinny). The quartet makes its debut today (May 22) at the ticketed Glastonbury livestream event Live at Worthy Farm. The livestream begins at 7 p.m. BST (2 p.m. Eastern), and the Smile are slated to play at 11 p.m. BST (6 p.m. Eastern).

The Smile take their take from a Ted Hughes poem. According to a press release, they’ll debut new, original music at Live at Worthy Farm. Glastonbury co-organizer Emily Eavis said in a statement, “We’re truly honoured that Thom and Jonny have chosen our livestream event to premiere their brand new project, The Smile. Sadly, we are all unable to gather together at Worthy Farm, but alongside sets from other wonderful performers, this has all the makings of a special Glastonbury moment—and one we can broadcast to the world.”

The guys of Radiohead are no strangers to side projects. Thom Yorke formed Atoms for Peace with Nigel Godrich, Flea, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco in 2009; they released their debut AMOK in 2013. In addition, he plays shows with his Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes band of Godrich and Tarik Barri.

While Jonny Greenwood does not always name his collaborations, he works often with non-Radiohead musicians for his film scores and soundtracks. In addition, in 2015, he released Junun with Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express.

always interested in new thom yorke

hoping someone who bought a ticket to the glastonbury livestream records their set at 6pm eastern

Wonder what kinda music they're gonna make super curious

They should drop a single after the show

Bring Burial along with y’all

username to post ratio on point

nigel performing with them too

can't f***ing wait

@Sir_Swagalot lol

The description from pitchfork said obviously very inspired by Radiohead but it’s more stripped back

In terms of the set they played

this is interesting

In

They said they're like early Radiohead right? That's exciting

Hmm Looks like Nigel’s just a producer for the project? Didn’t see him at all on the stream

Was fire though. Gonna be moshing at the next Thom Yorke show

Strong punk vibes on a few of the tracks

Definitely stripped back / simple than Radiohead with just the 3 piece band

:pog:

And yeah he didn't perform

Very in

@Goo

Sounds like In Rainbows

O yea this is amazing. Definitely has In Rainbows written all over it

ayyyyye

this hard

WTF INNN

nah that opposites song hard af

wow thom yorke is old