Category: Radiohead

The band returned to the stage tonight, this time in Blackpool, England’s Empress Ballroom. The setlist included a lot of old favorites, especially from OK Computer:
1. The National Anthem
2. 2+2=5
3. Bangers ‘N’ Mash
4. Lucky
5. Airbag
6. Bodysnatchers
7. 15 Step
8. Exit Music (For A Film)
9. Paranoid Android
10. Nude
11. Arpeggi
12. My Iron Lung
13. Where I End And You Begin
14. Climbing Up The Walls
15. How To Disappear Completely
16. Idioteque
17. There There
-Encore-
18. Planet Telex
19. House Of Cards
20. Black Star
21. Everything In Its Right Place
-Encore2-
22. The Tourist
If you went to the show, please leave us your reviews at the Gigography.

As you know, Phil’s mum passed away the other night. He posted a note on Dead Air Space:

Just wanted to say sorry to the people who were due to come to our show in Amsterdam last night, particularly those who made wasted journeys. My mum died suddenly in the early hours of yesterday morning and so I just wanted to be at home with my family. Mum was a big Radiohead fan, and was very proud of all we’ve done as a band. I love and miss her very much.
Phil

(Thanks to Chris.)

Seriously, what was life like before YouTube? I can’t even remember.
Pitchfork has a review of “Arpeggi” from as performed in Copenhagen which you should check out. Check out the video above too…
If you’re waiting for these guys to finally fuck-up something royal, keep waiting. They’re unbacklashable, especially when radiating loving nightmares like this for the salivating masses selling toes for tickets on eBay. Originally debuted last year by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and the Nazareth Orchestra (and ‘forked here), this new full-band version of what is sure to be a highlight from their upcoming seventh album demonstrates how these five fellows can completely recast a song while preserving its crucial core. With the orchestra, “Arpeggi” was a hushed, daedal ordeal; Greenwood plinking a cyclical electric keyboard line while the precise strings sifted through myriad peaks and plummets, never overtaking an astounding Yorke vocal. Now, things are less “Motion Picture Soundtrack” and more “There There”, with swift drums sweeping past Yorke’s willowing lead and Greenwood’s refrain, resurrected as a wet guitar fog.
The new version is pure Radiohead forward-jangle, from the dire, watery themes– which recall “Pyramid Song” and “In Limbo”, among others– to Ed O’Brien’s back-up vocals, which once again prove to be the band’s most consistent secret weapon. A far crackle from the electro-shock riffage of yore, “Arpeggi” relies on a rumbling subtlety to build. Just as the song seems to be heading full-tilt toward a triumphant skinny-spastic Greenwood solo, it disperses into an extended outro with Yorke longing for “escape.” Thankfully, there is none. [Ryan Dombal]
(thanks to Stephan)

Longtime reader Ari sends this clip from a Premiere Magazine interview with Richard Linklater, director of A Scanner Darkly:

Premiere: Did you get the Radiohead song you wanted for Scanner?
Richard: Thom Yorke is letting us use a great song of his new album for the closing credits, “Black Swan.” It has a chorus, “because it’s fucked up,” that will never get airplay.

This is unconfirmed until we can find a hard copy.
(Thanks to Ari.)

This just in from W.A.S.T.E.:
“Due to an unexpected & sudden family bereavement we are unable to do the show tonight in Amsterdam. We have rescheduled it for Monday August 28th. We are extremely sorry to cause such inconvenience & disappointment, & are especially sorry to those who travelled far.”
Tickets for tonight’s show are valid for the rescheduled show. Alternatively, fans can obtain a refund from their ticket retailer until 11th June.