If you are going to be headed to the Over Normal exhibit in San Francisco, starring Stanley Donwood and a sound installation by Donwood and John Matthias, then you are going to get the physical copy of the Over Normal Newspaper, a nice newsprint pamphlet made in conjunction with the FIFTY24SF show.
But if you happen to live in, let us day, Plymouth, England, then you need to go to SlowlyDownward.com and download the PDF so you can experience it like us who sit in the gallery.
In honor of violinist John Matthias being in San Francisco this week for Stanley Donwood’s Over Normal exhibition at FIFTY24SF Gallery, we honor John with a track that he played on Radiohead’s The Bends, “Fake Plastic Trees.” Described as “the product of a joke that wasn’t really a joke, a very lonely, drunken evening and, well, a breakdown of sorts”, “Fake Plastic Trees” to this day remains on the finest songs in the Radiohead catalog.
