It was added to the rumour mill last week, and now it’s definitely happening: Radiohead are doing a webcast this Friday.

Nigel Godrich (black swan etc remember?) posted a test link up on Atease which exhibited nearly a half an hour of various people (Thom, Nigel, Colin) throwing some records on the decks and generally making a goose of themselves. Oh, and someone played with an awful lot of video effects. You can see some of it here, thanks to Atease board member tjaredfriend:

• Video capture 1 (YouTube)
• Video capture 2 (YouTube)

Webcasts have appeared on a couple of occasions in Radiohead’s history, and they have become an integral part of Radiohead folklore. Often they’ll contain performances of songs that had never been seen before or since, and they exhibit a side of the band that we don’t get to see very often: in their natural environment, having fun.

I have no idea what time the webcast will appear on Friday, but I recommend you keep an eye on Atease’s news page and Dead Air Space!