Like he did at Glastonbury and in the Basement, and like he probably will twice this week at Roseland Ballroom in NYC (and on Colbert), drummer Clive Deamer joined Radiohead during their performance on Saturday Night Live last night (9/24). Said Radiohead drummer Phil Selway back in June, "no, you're not seeing double. The doppelganger drummers are myself and Clive Deamer. Clive has long been one of my favourite drummers and so I was really excited when he agreed to perform with us. Hope you like what we've all done." Clive's credits include recording with Portishead and Roni Size, and touring with Robert Plant. Check out the two SNL videos, and some clearer screencaps, below...

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photos by Amanda Hatfield

Wild Beasts @ Highline Ballroom

Wild Beasts headlined Highline Ballroom on Aug 11th with Lone Wolf and The Kissaway Trail. Wild Beasts' record, Two Dancers is currently up for the Mercury Prize (the UK's album of the year), the results of which will be announced on September 7th. The show was one of a few US dates for the crew, and now the band is already back in their native UK preparing for a string of festival dates including the Reading/Leeds Festivals next weekend.

Lone Wolf, also from the UK, plays the Green Man Festival this weekend with Wild Beasts before heading out on a short UK tour with Phil Selway (of Radiohead). The Radiohead drummer is preparing to welcome a solo album of his own entitled Familial, due in the US on Nonesuch on Aug 31. Featuring appearances from Glenn Kotche (Wilco), Pat Sansone, Sebastian Steinberg (ex-Soul coughing), and more, the LP is currently up for preorder, and you can stream a few songs from it below.

More Highline pictures, WB's setlist, tour dates, and the Philip Selway stream is below...

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tonight in NYC
* Asa Ransom @ The Cameo
* Dr. Dog @ Apple Store Soho
* Kid Sister @ Public Assembly
* Bone Thugs N Harmony @ Irving Plaza
* Suckers, Light Asylum @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Darwin Deez, Photon Dynamo @ Party Expo
* Bushwick Book Club @ Goodbye Blue Monday
* Howls, Fnu Lnu, Serica Ux @ Bruar Falls
* Gringo Star, Hymns (early) @ Mercury Lounge
* The Sundelles, Your Youth, Toucher @ Union Pool
* Atoms for Peace, Flying Lotus @ Roseland Ballroom
* Peter Piek, Fuck Fuck, Mentira Mentira @ Don Pedro
* Cross-Pollination w/ Sunroom, Team Genius @ Pianos
* Shy Child, French Horn Rebellion (late) @ Mercury Lounge
* MiniBoone, Ava Luna, Ball of Flame Shoot Fire @ Cake Shop
* Best Coast, Bitters, The Babies @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* The Bronx, Violent Soho, Mariachi El Bronx @ Bowery Ballroom
* Growing, Eric Copeland, Luke Roberts, The Monroe Indians @ Coco 66
* The Hundred In The Hands, James F Friedman (DJ), Max Plask (DJ), Jacques Renault (DJ), The Rapture (DJ) @ Santos

Mexico's Mentira Mentira followed Todd P home from Mexico (they played MtyMx). Tonight you can catch them at Death By Audio,

The Hundred in the Hands signed to Warp Records and today they release their first single, "Dressed in Dresden". The show at Santos tonight is to celebrate. Their longer This Desert EP will be out May 18, and then a full length is expected in the fall.

Thom Yorke's new band Atoms for Peace play for the second night in a row at Roseland Ballroom. Radiohead's Phil Selway recently played solo shows too. Videos of that below...

Flying Lotus is opening the shows for Thom Yorke (who appears on Flying Lotus's new record too), and Flying Lotus recently played a show at Le Poisson Rouge where, like at other shows, he covered Radiohead's "Idioteque". Video of that (from a March 26th show) below...

What else?

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"Let's see how long it takes BV to mention that Phil Collins will never drum again." - Anonymous

In the UK press today, there appeared some articles about Phil's physical state, with some slightly misleading headlines. Here, in Phil's own words, are how he describes his situation:

"There isn't any drama regarding my 'disability' and playing drums.
Somehow during the last Genesis tour I dislocated some vertebrae in my upper neck and that affected my hands. After a successful operation on my neck, my hands still can't function normally.

"Maybe in a year or so it will change, but for now it is impossible for me to play drums or piano. I am not in any 'distressed' state, stuff happens in life."

Phil [Collins]

In other drummers named Phil news, NME reports that "Radiohead drummer Phil Selway has announced that he is set to release a solo album."

Selway, who sings on the album, is currently in the process of recording the as-yet untitled record in his band's Oxfordshire studio.

He enlisted the services of Wilco members Glenn Kotche and Pat Sansone to play on the project, and multi-instrumentalist solo artist Lisa Germano and bass player Sebastian Steinberg have also contributed.

No release date or any more details yet. A video of Phil McKenna playing drums, below...

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