KIKU
Listening: OK Computer

KIKU Listening Sessions presents Radiohead's OK Computer (1997) at Rooms Coffee | 915 Dupont in Toronto. Two seatings are held each night, at 6pm and 8pm. At the 6pm seating the album is played front to back, with the stories of how it was made and why it matters to the people in the room. Most of it was recorded in a mansion near Bath with the house as an instrument: the vocals on Exit Music were sung on a stone staircase, Let Down was cut in the ballroom at three in the morning, and the white noise on Climbing Up the Walls was made by sixteen violins. No headphones and no screens: the record is played aloud to a room of listeners. Part of four Radiohead albums over four Tuesdays in November, with each night standing on its own. Tickets are available through the link in the organiser's bio.