so that was pretty good, huh?
well, the band. the organisation: not so much.
it's actually made me want to give In Rainbows some more listens. job done, guyz!
so that was pretty good, huh?
well, the band. the organisation: not so much.
it's actually made me want to give In Rainbows some more listens. job done, guyz!
i don't know
the band were really good, i liked the ending on idiotheque, and the lights were pretty, but...
i really don't think i can enjoy a gig on that scale. maybe it's to do with how far back i was (i couldn't get out of work this aft), but i can't really see the point if you can't see the singer's face.
and those screen displays looked like you may as well have been watching jools holland.
They broked in irlande
just as well i wasnt wotching them
err...what?
sorry, i'm tired.
The displays broke in Ireland,
I think he said.
Exactly
They were brilliant but at times it felt like backing music to a few pints in the part. Felt completely disconnected from them.
me and my boy
got there pretty late (about 10 minutes before Radiohead went on stage) but managed to get pretty near the front bit down the side near the bar.
I could even get in and out for loo/bar/tshirt buying.
The tees were great and the fact an ice cream cost 30pee less than a pint of Carling was funny :)
what was the sound like ?
loud enough ?
yep
pretty much spot on.
hooray
getting my hopes up for tomorrow.
What non In Rainbows stuff did they play ? They always play Creep when I see them.
They'll not play Creep.
They didn't play Creep
Or Paranoid Android or High and Dry, No Surprises, Fake Plastic Trees, Karma Police etc etc
Strange. But still very good.
They don't play High and Dry anymore
I think :/
Why not?
I love it
'cause it's 15 years old
and maybe they're sick of playing it?
Or more likely because it's just not very good.
In fact of the list of songs they didn't play up from mynameisleah, Paranoid Android is the only one I'm surprised they didn't do.
looking at that stat site
they have been playing Paranoid quite a lot this tour, i guess we just lucked out :D
I don't know. I could have stood to see it again.
Certainly over the duller Dollers & Cents.
I thought
Dollars and cents was a highlight
colin has said
theyve donated its corpse to jamie cullem to have his wicked way with it.
they did play Dollars & Cents though
and it was INCREDIBLE. so was the reworked version of The Gloaming.
Okay, you nutter.
My personal feeling is that if you picked 2 hours of Radiohead songs The Gloaming and Dollars & Cents definitely WOULDN'T be on that list.
That was the low point, though The Gloaming was a really great version. It just felt kind of out of place.
oh theo
the bass! THE BASS! it's so menacing.
also
i'm not sure i could choose just two hours of radiohead! whatever they played there'd still be something else you'd want.
and hey, we did get The Tourist :D
GREAT SONG.
Yeah it would be a hard choice. Very hard. I meant more that I just wouldn't be choosing Dollers & Cents or The Gloaming if I was trying to pick two hours.
I didn't mind the Gloaming. It was an interesting song but it just seemed a weird sort of choice.
I thought it was really good
Bit disappointed they didn't play some of the old classics though
Set List:
1. 15 Step
2. Bodysnatchers
3. All I Need
4. National Anthem
5. Pyramid Song
6. Nude
7. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
8. The Gloaming
9. Dollars & Cents
10. Faust Arp
11. There There
12. Just
13. Climbing Up The Walls
14. Reckoner
15. Everything In Its Right Place
16. How To Disappear Completely
ENCORE 1
17. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
18. Videotape
19. Airbag
20. Bangers and Mash
21. Planet Telex
22. The Tourist
ENCORE 2
23. Cymbal Rush
24. You And Whose Army?
25. Idioteque
Yep. They did play a few songs that I could have done without, and managed to leave out only ONE song from In Rainbows - my personal favourite House Of Cards.
But these are minor, minor gripes. The atmosphere was amazing, the sound and light shows were great, and I cried during The Tourist, because it was so fucking beautiful.
Brilliant to have seen them.
P.S.
Me and the boys took our chance to get to the front few rows during Just. A (minor) mosh at a Radiohead gig.
C'est super!
the 'mosh'
during just was one of the most embarassing things i've ever seen.
How so? I coudln't see it.
it was just hideously
indie.
granted, it was hardly 80s Matchbox
but it made a refreshing change from standing completely still and staring - also "hideously indie"
It was
a load of kids barged past us as it came on!
I also heard some idiot saying to his mate "bit disappointed, not enough OK Computer".
Great gig I thought, sound was actually very good, BFL excellent on support too. Thom's dancing was...unique.
not sure if they closed the main set with How To Disappear or Jigsaw
but it was one of the two, can't remember.
there's nothing i'd want to change about that setlist
it was a great performance.
i'd really really love to see them in somewhere very very small though.
CYMBAL RUSH!!!!11
wow!
No Super Collider though eh...
Was that Cymbal Rush? I thought it was 'Last Flowers 'Till The Hospital' or whatever it's called.
Also... Jigsaw Falling Into Place? I thought they came on and started the encore with Videotape. Weird.
Cymbal Rush is on The Eraser
and yeah, they did. Jigsaw was the last song of the main set.
Oh right. I've listend to the Eraser loads
but I didn't really recognise it in that form, just pianos.
I recognised it
but couldn't work out what it was.
The Tourist AND
Climbing Up The Walls ?!
I can't believe people would be unhappy with that.
BUT THEY DIDN'T PLAY KARAM POLICe
lol
^^^^ ARREST THIS MAN!
it was ace, for sure
heard a lot of complaints about the lack of 'hits', but fuck me i'd rather hear some of the album tracks they broke out than another sing-along grind through "karma police" or "no surprises".
it was pretty sublime, but i bet theres going to be a lot of angry punters out there.
Twas
damn fine, a shame the sun couldn't have set half an hour earlier. Glad Bat For Lashes came back out after things went a bit wrong sound wise. I heard at least 5 people referring to her as 'very bjork' as if they were the first people in the world to come to this conclusion.
As for Radiohead, pretty good setlist I thought, swap the tracks from Bends and OKC for others from those albums maybe "Optimistic" and "Where I End..." alongside the IR stuff and I'll be a happy bunny.
Also check out this nutter
http://www.ronaldvdberg.nl/RH2008TOUR/index.php
Massive kudos to that guy
Who else
desperately wants to hear their You Really Got Me?
im going to see them in glasgow this friday
whats a good time to get to the gig? i'd ideallyh like to be within the first 10-20 rows, dont wanna stand at the back where i might as well be listening to my ipod and looking at a picture instead
i just looked at the london setlist
what! No 2+2=5? :(
were my ears hallucinating?
or was that a dubstep version of videotape they played?
It
really was ;o)
"Thom sang about 3305 words (671 unique) during this show. That is 1% below average. "
that's the best use i've ever seen of the internet.
Mmm they were pretty good
I guess. I long ago gave up on gigs this size and Radiohead are the only band I make the exception for these days. Won't be doing it again though, not the band's fault of course by any means but far, far too many people around me constantly talking and fucking around. Who are you people? Really, why do you bother? 13th time
*13th time I've seen them
and certainly the least enjoyable by a long way.
This was my sixth time. I thought it was really fucking excellent
and wiped away the horror of their Earl's Court HTTT gig in 2003, which was the last time I saw them.
"at least 5 people referring to her as 'very bjork' as if they were the first people in the world to
I'm guessing it was the first time they'd heard her. Perhaps you should have instructed them in your best cynical manner as to how they SHOULD have referred to her Bjork similarities?
ALL UKNOWN MEAT TASTES LIKE CHICKEN
it wasn't the bjork comparison
it was that they all said 'very bjork' in a manner more twatty than my sentence trying to explain it. Almost as if the conclusion of very bjork was absolutely the only thing to say about it.
I walked to Westferry in order to get out a bit quicker. (Isn't a d
Duffy lyric)
Now that's my kind of geek! :)
PLANET TELEX!!!!
Haven't seen that live since Glasto '97.
Other highlights were the new version of Pyramid Song and Idioteque...actually most of the songs appeared to be updated.
note to Radiohead
and other bands. DON'T PLAY IN FUCKING MILE END EVER AGAIN. That was too many people all walking around in a residential area on a Tuesday evening. I couldn't get to my house cos of a bunch of fairtrade cunts.
yeah
i ended up walking all the way to old street. in that time i saw one #8 bus through the crowds on roman road.
I got home in
about 20 minutes!
note to HurricaneTommy
Are you saying that there's only ONE WAY to get to your house?
Also, note to Radiohead fans walking from Mile End - you don't have to go up Grove Road. There are other ways to avoid the crowds. Just look at Streetmap or whatever...
i cut across that park
by the canal. there were people pissing in bushes :(
Nice...
Last time out in Victoria Park I went home from Bow Road the first time and then walked to Bethnal Green the second time.
Two ways
from the tube. Both blocked off by police or crowds. Had to walk all the way down Grove Road to Roman Road and then round the back way.
tonight > last night!
What time
did they come on?
Thinking I may head down tonight & get a ticket off a tout, or even listen from outside. Could hear it from my flat last night & I live a good 15 min walk from Victoria Park
I'd suggest
Arrive a bit late, around 6 to 6:30 - the touts were selling tickets for around 20 quid by that point yesterday.
one of my friends got sold a ticket for a tennor
and another got in for free half way through!
i'm going tonight
what time did it finish last night, roughly?
it finished
at 10.30.
Band were good, but the sound was too faint and the crowd were full of east london twats talking were i was. Near the front as well. Couldn;t really get into it, though i was partly distracted by work concerns as well.
The sound was fucking loud where I was...
They came on at 8.30 and went off at 10.30.
anyone
get a ticket of a tout last night? price etc...
i got there
just before 8 and people were selling them outside for ~£25. my advice would be to head to the park, that's where actual people were selling them. the touts were all clustered around mile end station.
Overheard
one tout trying to sell a ticket for 30 quid. He failed.
Music Before Band?
Does anyone know what was playing before Radiohead came on? Some kind of minimal techno then an electronic 2 step kind of track.
Someone implied maybe Radiohead had written it themselves
Yup
I was thinking that maybe. I thought it was funny that a few guys stood by me were rubbishing it. And I thought it sounded a lot like the electronic beat sound from Kid A onwards. Then when 15 Step was the first track these guys went nuts. But it starts with exactly the same kind of beat as the music playing before they came on. That they just said was crap. Strange.
the encore(s) made it for me
especially hearing the tourist, and you and whos army and idioteque were just amazing.
strange to hear from up there
that the sound was too quiet. You could hear it in my street and I'm ten mins walk away from the park. My friend could hear it at his place in Dalston.
Anyway, going tonight. Excited.
it was fun
I was so happy when The Tourist started... they dont really play that much do they?
I hope the crowd tonight
is better than this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shrinkwrapped/2609236050/
haha
good one. we had an annoying dreaded (as in hair) scott in front of us waving his filthy dreads in our face and talking loudly. grr. he didnt stay for long though. thankfully
just sit on the hill
and listen for free like me and 150 others did last night.
its by the childrens play park bit.
i saw a tout haggling with the offer of £20 for 2 tickets. ha ha ha-ski
could you see the stage from there?
or just hear the band?
This is an official Tuesday night thread..
..but it's Wednesday, when will the madness if DiS end?
*of DiS end.
at the END OF DiS!
idioteque was awesome
it was the first time i've seen radiohead. selfishly, i would have preferred a greatest hits set, but it was still an awesome performance
Yes, Idioteque was just incredible
What way to end!
But I am so glad it wasn't a greatest hits set, there is nothing worse than hearing people try to sing along to Radiohead.
thought last night was amazing
though as it was my first time seeing Radiohead I was a little upset at not getting to hear Paranoid Android.
Other than that I thought it was great. Good sound where I was stood.
I agree about wishing it had got dark a bit earlier as the crowd where I was didn't really seem to get going until the sun went down.
Great experience but I think I'm going to need to see them again to satisfy my Radiohead needs.
Support Bands
I'm going to today's gig. As doors open so early is there any other support apart from Bat For Lashes?
If so, who were they and what time did they come on yesterday?
What time did Bat For Lashes come on?
Don't want to waste time hanging around when I can be in a local boozer.
I think
Bat For Lashes were on at about 6.30, there's not much point getting there before that.
BFL came on at 6.45
No other supports
Thanks
Many thanks Girl_Anachronism and clarker. Don't like to waste valuable drinking time.
Strange
Saw them in Oxford in 2001 and it was almost spiritual so maybe my expectations were too high for this. Musically stunning, Thom's voice was superb BUT... felt completely dislocated from it all. Very strange. Thought the setlist was too self-indulgent and poorly structured for a gig this size. Lack of engagement from the band. 'Cymbal Rush' was verging on self-parody. Agree with one of the other posters - there will be a lot of unhappy fans out there.
Did anyone buy a ticket of a tout?
I would not normally do this but would like to go again tonight and get an idea of how much being as its not sold out an all.
i think the fact it wasn't dark
had a lot to do with this.
It felt like a lot of the crowd were really disengaged from the show for the first half of the set.
It all only seemed to come to life when the sun went down and the lightshow took full effect etc
After The Gloaming
both the song and the time period, the sound seemed to jump up a notch too.
I guess by charging 50 sheets a ticket...
they assumed that the crowd would all be "real fans". The sort of fans that know all the b-sides and album tracks. This wasn't the case, and at times the set was a bit dull. Hardly any "hits", and, for a gig with so many people, you need to cater for the masses by throwing in the odd HUGE track.
Why do you?
You pay to see a band and the band can do whatever the fuck they want.
If you went to a Radiohead gig expecting a greatest hits set you probably need your head examined (not at you, a general point)
^^ This
Also, if you can predict the setlist as a greatest hits montage, where is the excitement?
It's not "Radiohead - The Musical"
of course...
they can do what ever they want. That's not the point I was making. What I'm saying is, there was a lot of people at the gig that would have liked to have seen more famous songs.
Unfortunately, not everyone there knows the B-sides back-to-back. Not everyone knows their album tracks. I am a Radiohead fan, no doubt, but at a gig of that magnitude, I wanted to see a few more bigger hits.
If I had a ticket to see them in a more intimate venue, hell yeah, role out the b-side, japanese imports and non-released album tracks. But for what was essentially a festival gig, I think they should have altered the set appropriately.
why constant mentions of b-sides?
EVERYTHING they played was off an album.
I've never heard Bangers & Mash before...
where is that from?
In Rainbows
disc 2
^^^^ THIS X 1000
Well except Bangers & Mash, which is only off the special second disc of In Rainbows.
But yeah, they played almost the entirity of an album everyone could have listened to for free over and over plus a load of immensely popular songs from an immensely popular back catalogue.
GODDAMN ELITISTS
for the record I thought it was brilliant, my jaw dropped when i saw the size of the stage, I was so pleased at being able to get fairly close (well past the sound tent) without any difficulty, the sound was wayyyy better than I expected and I loved the set.
Sure, Paranoid Android, Fake Plastic Trees, Street Spirit, Karma Police, Lucky, Electioneering, Spinning Plates, True Love Waits and even fucking Killer Cars would have been brilliant, but when a band can play a set THAT good, and leave out those songs just mentioned... shows how good they are. Plus they played two of my top 5 radiohead songs (How to Disappear Completely and Climbing Up The Walls) which they didn't play last time. And The Tourist.
I didn't recognise Cymbal Rush or Bangers and Mash, but enjoyed them both immensely regardless. It was nice to have a couple of unfamiliar songs in with the other 2 1/4 hours of songs that are hardwired into me!
Climbing Up The Walls
was stunning. i worked out what it was when Greenwood started playing his radio again and shrieked with delight.
it would have been my absolute highlight
if they hadn't then played How To Disappear.
I couldn't help feeling it would have been better in an enclosed smaller venue though (Climbing up the walls). With MBV-esque sound volume. And lights all over the walls. And ceiling.
did anyone notice
how the projected words for 'Everything in its right place' were spelt IT'S(everything in it's right place)? Nothing ruins a gig like bad grammar! ;-)
^ this ^
I LOLed.
I didn't see any words. Too far back, I guess...
also...
DO NOT SING ALONG!
It's so annoying. I want to hear arguably the best vocalist in the World, not you an your mate whining at the top of your voice.
Right so,
you wanted the hits, but no one to sing along and then you complained about the atmosphere? Contradictory much?
People sung along to Just and were encouraged to do so to Planet Telex.
There was some singing along to The Tourist and others.
review
bosh
http://drownedinsound.com/articles/3531927
It was fucking incredible
The sound was perfect, I was amazed, usually outdorr gigs are shit for that, but I could clearly make every note, every nuance.
I can't believe that 8 years ago I hated that band. Yesterday I stood in a field with m y jaw dropped admitting that they are probably the best band in the world.
What made you suddenly stop hating them?
I've seen radiohead outdoors three times, twice in a tent and once indoors (Earl's Court) now, and the outdoor gigs had the best sound.
Well, it's only taken me 14 years to see them live
And while I'm no fan of giant outdoor gigs or festivals for that matter (I get very tired of people en masse), I thought that beyond the rather bizarre atmosphere it was a really good gig. Soundwise, superb. The volume was just right, so there was no unwanted distortion and the speakers were even positioned in a way to minimise sound drift through wind, which was the bane of my experience seeing R.E.M. in Hyde Park a couple of years ago.
Both Thom and Ed were on absolutely top form singing wise - in fact it only cemented in my mind that Ed O'Brien is so good he'd be a better front man for any number of big bands out there right now. But his voice just compliments Thom's superbly, so you can't really complain, can you?
Some serious, serious noise coming from Jonny's corner, even a bit of 'Sigur Ros'ing (cello bow on guitar), he was frenetic and awesome to watch, one of the most exciting musicians there's ever been, frankly.
As for the rythm section... well. What can you say? Colin + Phil = unstoppable.
So glad some rarer songs got an outing tonight. While it was my first Radiohead gig and I could wish for a 'hits' list as much as anyone, I think the experience was better for having heard newer improved live versions of Everything in its Right Place, Idioteque, Dollars & Cents, Bangers & Mash, and most curiously and brilliantly, Videotape. I don't really like it on In Rainbows, but Tuesday's live version really brought it to life. Though I have to say, it was a really bizarre song to start an encore with!
I thought it was wonderful.
The band were completely on form, thom was completely legendary last night, weather was perfect, even the long trail back to mile end wasn't too bad, with resonances of idioteque in my ears
had some issues with the fans. Like the off tune singing in nude..that was a tad annoying
but other than that. epic.
I
dont understand how people pay 40 quid for a ticket to see a band, and turn up and only know a handful of songs, then talk through the rest of the songs they dont know... 40 quids a lot of cash to part with if you're not really that into the band... surely? i'm not saying you need to have every single, every bootleg etc, but they've released 4 albums since ok computer - surely its not too much to ask to, i dont know - buy them, and listen to them before the gig? instead of turning up, standing next to me and talking sh*t through the entire set
still, it was a fantastic gig
lmao
are you talking about the American guy by any chance?
mundane questions
my mate wants to bring a decent camera tonight - is this likely to be a problem with the security?
also, was there decent food there or should I grab something to eat beforehand?
cheers
another mundane question:
would it be less crowded on the Hammersmith and City line from Paddington than the Circle?
out of those two ...
I would take the Circle, but there's not much to choose between them (I've been commuting that route for 12 years)
alternatively, walk to Lancaster Gate (only 5 minutes or so from Paddington) and get the Central Line to Mile End
Circle line doesn't go anywhere near Mile End
so you'd have to change to a (likely) very packed train at Liverpool st.
that would only be two stops though
so i'm not too worried about that. i'm planning to get there around 6 so going across london in rush hour will be a nightmare anyway i go. seems like circle is the best bet then?
.
We got the Circle there and got there around 4pm, not crowed at all at that time. We went to a pub outside the Park for a hour or so, that was suprisingly not too busy.
On the way back we decided getting a tube would be silly due to the sheer crowds. Rather than turn left out the park with everyone else, we turned right and walked towards Cambridge Heath, planning to keep walking till we could work out what to do.
In the end we jumped on a busy towards Blackfriairs, which wasn't too packed either.
I meant Central
not Circle.
it was
Festival food mate, your normal burgers and hot dogs... and the 'classy' hog roast option.
I had these fuckin group of stoners next to me all gig, they were hugging eachother on the slow songs (all men) and being complete cunts, one just kept commenting on how good the bass sounded, once was enough mate, no need for every song!
ta
hopefully we will find a cunt-free zone for the duration
securty was very light
when i got in, i had a packed back and the guy barely looked in it at all before letting me through. no patting down or anything either really..
there were quite a few food stands i think, but i only saw people with chips and hot dogs etc.. there may have been others ?
That was great
I was right on the barrier, so that was pretty good. There was a lull in my excitement between the National Anthem and There There, but that's just because I don't particularly like Nude, Weird Fishes and a few of the other songs around then; but after There There I couldn't fault it. The inclusion of Climbing Up the Walls, Airbag, You and Whose Army, Idioteque, Planet Telex, There There and The Tourist pleased me immeasurably.
I was also seriously disappointed by All I Need, the drums didn't have that kick that they have on the record, I really wanted that to come off as well. Aside from that the sound was perfect.
I didn't care much for the pricing of stuff (my friend bought a Ribena ice lolly thing for £2.50). Neither did I care for the complete lack of signage on how to get to Victoria Park from Hackney Wick, or the complete lack of working lampposts in Victoria Park heading back. But whatever, it was a great night.
yeak
there should have been more signposting even in Victoria Park. We just had to follow to music to find an entrance...
yeah it was pretty good
not amazing but very solid indeed.
would you like me to go into any more detail?