Tuesday 24 (when I went)
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
17. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
18. Videotape
19. Airbag
20. Bangers and Mash
21. Planet Telex
22. The Tourist
23. Cymbal Rush
24. You And Whose Army?
25. Idioteque
Wednesday 25th (when I didn't went)
1. Reckoner
2. 15 Step
3. There There
4. All I Need
5. Lucky
6. Nude
7. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
8. Myxomatosis
9. National Anthem
10. Faust Arp
11. No Surprises
12. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
13. Optimistic
14. Videotape
15. Everything In Its Right Place
16. Idioteque
17. Bodysnatchers
18. House of Cards
19. The Bends
20. Bangers and Mash
21. My Iron Lung
22. Karma Police
23. Go Slowly
24. 2+2=5
25. Paranoid Android
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lucky bastards for Wednesday is all I have to say - Tuesday was a real treat and all - but to get No Surprises, Karma Police, My Iron Lung, The Bends, House Of Cards, Optimistic AND Paranoid Android - consider yourselves lucky!!!
Still, I did get to see The Tourist, Just and Pyramid Song. Just made up to see them full stop, was my first time having bought OK Computer and The Bends together when I was 12 in 1997. Happy days, shame about all the EMI Best-Of wanker fans who talked through all the quiet songs and kept shouting 'RADIOHEAD!!!!' and 'CREEEEP!'
i would be well jealous for the tuesday
but i was at MBV!
Here's the setlist from when I saw them at South Park seven years ago....
'National Anthem' / 'Airbag' / 'Morning Bell' / 'Lucky' / 'Packt Like Sardines In A Crshed Tin Box' / 'My Iron Lung' / 'Exit Music (For A Film)' / 'Knives Out' / 'No Surprises' / 'Dollars & Cents' / 'Street Spirit (Fade Out) ' / 'I Might Be Wrong' / 'Pyramid Song' / 'Paranoid Android' / 'Idioteque' / 'Everything In Its Right Place'
Encore One 'Fake Plastic Trees' / 'Karma Police' / 'You and Whose Army' / 'How To Disappear Completely'
Encore Two 'Talk-show Host' / 'The Bends'
Encore Three 'Creep'
not bad
Supergrass, Beck and Sigur Ros were support..........
and my ticket was 26 quid I think.
Life is too expensive these days.
: (
i have a bootleg of that show
it's fucking brilliant.
i didn't go because i went to ozzfest instead. FAIL.
that was...
the first time I saw them and definitely the best set list EVER.
It was a good show. You missed out how we got two bars of Motion Picture Soundtrack
before the keyboard 'broke' and they played Creep.
oh it was exciting
that gig was phenomenal
pouring with rain, the band getting all emotional in their home town... i went tuesday and it didn't compare.
Looks like they
listened to some of the "we want da hitz!" comments for the second night
But to be honest, I could not complain at either set. Getting excited for Manc now :D
hmmm
at least they didnt play let down on wednesday. that would have made me really mad. would have loved 2+2 = 5 though
(but id take you and whos army and the tourist every time anyway)
Actually, who am I trying to kid?
I've looked at that wednesday setlist a few times now and I do feel bloody cheated!
but you're quite right
Id have probably paid the entry fee for The Tourist alone. It was one of the best things I've ever seen live, totally shivers down the spine.
And it seemed to be totally silent in the crowd unlike some of the other quiet ones.
yeah man
i really wasnt expecting to hear it either which made it all the more amazing.. i will truly treasure that moment.
the only thing that annoys me really is 2+2=5 THEN paranoid android.. but then to be honest you and whos aremy THEN idioteque is actually just as good.. i think its amazing how equal they are when you think about it!
My friend just phoned me.
"That was the best gig of my life. It was amazing. It was SO good. Oh my God, seriously, why didnt you come??"
I went on the tuesday.
*Sigh*
I hate my life.
i'm not that fussed
you've got a 75% chance of seeing Android / Karma Police / My Irong Lung at a radiohead gig so, y'know, next time.
Tourist / How To Disappear / Climbing Up The Walls ftw, basically.
^True.
Now I'm looking a bit more on the bright side. Cheers!
I'm kinda the same
i'd never seen them before so the set list for tonight probably would've been the best gig I'd ever been to.
Just means I'm going to have to make sure I go see them again.
Ah well it was still a lovely evening.
^^^^ This, there's not a song in that list I haven't already seen live
(sometimes many times) except for House of Cards, and that's my least favourite from the album in any case.
TUESDAY == FULL OF WIN!
Brilliant
Both nights were grand. But tonight had the added bonus of clear skys and paranoid android as a closer!
They're not gonna do Let Down
on this tour are they?
:(
anyone can play guitar?
VHS! VHS! VHS! VHS!
"You" (3:48)
"Bones" (3:08)
"Ripcord" (3:17)
"Black Star" (3:44)
"Creep" (4:10)
"The Bends" (3:56)
"My Iron Lung" (5:06)
"Prove Yourself" (2:24)
"Maquiladora" (3:16)
"Vegetable" (3:14)
"Fake Plastic Trees" (4:29)
"Just" (3:43)
"Stop Whispering" (5:16)
"Anyone Can Play Guitar" (4:16)
"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (4:24)
"Pop Is Dead" (2:22)
"Blow Out" (6:14)
Is that the Astoria show?
I don't think there's too much between the main sets,
but comparing the encores is like comparing ... well ... two things that just don't match up
actually that's not true
what I'm going to do is stop confounding myself, and go and listen to as much Radiohead as I can.
yes
copied and pasted from wikipedia I might add, I'm not that weird that I know all the track lengths, nor sad enough to bother writing them!
What a show though. I hate people who condemn Pablo Honey as being crap - anyone who can watch this video and still hold that opinion is a complete twit.
That show is amazing.
I keep meaning to buy the DVD...
on paper...
Wednesday was better. But I've now seen them 4 times and not seem them play The Tourist or Climbing Up the Walls :-(
No tracks from Amnesiac either...
Also, The Bends live fucking sucks. Too slow and Thom can't be bothered to sing.
err yeah.
i was the closest i've ever been to crying at a gig
when I saw The Tourist at Manchester Apollo just before the Hail To the Thief release. What an incredible song. I was offered a free ticket to go to yesterday's show but I'm absolutely skint and would have had to pay £25 to get the train, so had to turn it down. I'm not disappointed I didn't go looking at both setlists APART from the fact they played The Tourist which would have been worth the £25 itself.
I know you, you're Mike Lord's former bandmate
and ex Sussex 3rd XI hopeful. Well I DID cry during The Tourist!
^^this
my thouhghts exactly. Although both the times i saw them in 06 they did Pyramid Song and it was sweet
anyway, i went wednesday and think tuesday was a better set. I was going to try not too look at it but my friends who i went with did. grrrr!
Airbag
was before 2+2=5.
Just to make it even better.
But I had to leave which was a drag.
36 songs
over two nights. Can't really complain. Both nights sets seemed to crackle more once the sun had gone down.
South Park was my first time too.
also
Hunting Bears was played before Faust Arp
It was really very good.
The only song I really wanted them to play was Optimistic. Then it just got even better.
my
feeling, is that both shows were equally good.
as much as it hurts my wallet, its always worth doing both shows if they do 2 in a city nearby as the setlists usually change pretty drastically.
further cases in point, hammersmith 1 & 2 2006, shepherds bush 2003, earls court 2003.
Oh fucking hell.
They played Optimistic, The Bends and Lucky, and opened with Reckoner.
Just...fuck it, really.
I'd have been jealous
if they got Cymbal Rush and we hadn't.
So I'm still satisfied.
Still...You got Lucky! Buggers.
^ Don't worry too much
Optimistic sounded a bit lumpy. Swap you for How To Disappear...
oh good god
i feel like smashing the place up after this. i had my finger over the wednesday but plumped (like a chump) for tuesday. even worse it was for my girlfriends 21st and her favourite song is paranoid android. arrggghh!
It'd be pretty good
if bands were to announce which night they were going to play the 'hits' and the 'rareties' when the tickets went onsale. I don't think it would work for gigs of this size but for smaller ones it would mean the fans and the casual listeners could go to the right show.
The Tuesday setlist slays
Does anyone really need to hear My Iron Lung again?
they did it properly this time though
less of that silly speeding up and slowing it down to a groove
Yes. Yes they do.
Because:
a) Not everyone's seen Radiohead before
and
b) A crowd of 40,000 isn't going to consist entirely of Ateasers braying for a set consisting of B-sides and demos. You've got to throw a bone to the more casual Radiohead fan, even though the concept of playing anything "popular" might be anathema to the hardcore.
Nothing on Tuesday's setlist
was rare or a b-side, they were all from an album!
quite.
not playing tracks from fifteen years ago with CRUNCHY GUITARS does not equal "playing a set of b-sides and demo tracks".
Yeah, but they played bugger all pre Kid-A stuff
which is what most casual fans (including me) would be wanting to here. I think last night's setlist was a better mix of songs, and everything I've read this morning suggests the atmosphere was much better because of it.
that's a pretty sweeping statement about what people 'want'
it's hardly like Kid A / Amnesiac / Hail to the Thief / In Rainbows sold fuck all, I'm sure most have equalled OK Computer's sales or close.
plus, you should probably consider that going to see a band in 2008 and expecting a lot of material from 1995 is a bit unrealistic.
I'm not saying that
I'm not necessarily expecting "a lot of material from the early albums", but at least a few songs would be welcome (they only played 2 on Tuesday)- and anyway, the show only really came into its own when they played the likes of Karma Police and Paranoid Android. If they were playing a small-ish indoor gig then fine, play whatever, but for what basically amounts to a stadium gig it's fair to expect some of the "hits".
that appears to be the basis of your complaint
as i've said, radiohead have had a pretty steady commercial profile which if anything is currently hitting it's peak. so it's not like material from Amnesiac or Hail to the Thief is 'unknown', which is what you're implying. both Kid A and Hail to the Thief were among the biggest selling albums of the years they came out. Pyramid Song went to #5 in the singles charts. they're no less relevent in the context of a 'hits' set than Karma Police or Paranoid Android.
this was also pretty obvious from where i was standing!
also, there were two from The Bends and three from OK Computer so that amounts to a fifth of the set or a third of the 'old material'. which is about fair, really.
I have no complaints about yesterday's setlist
It was great hearing Idioteque and 2+2=5 and There There and Jigsaw and Myxamitosis (the best song of the main set), as well as the stuff from the Bends/OKC era. It's just that Tuesday's setlist didn't seem quite as 'accessible' for casual fans due to the lack of big hitters like Karma Police or No Surprises. I'm sure Pyramid Song got a good reaction, but I'm sceptical it got quite the same response as Karma Police last night.
(--)
"the show only really came into its own when they played the likes of Karma Police and Paranoid Android." -
- what you mean is, all the chavs that were there came alive during those songs.
I think you'd be better off sticking to the Kaizer Chiefs next time mate.
Anyway, to the real Radiohead fans that are posting here; I was at last nights gig (Wednesday) and from seeing Tuesday's setlist (which looks good) I'm happy that I went on the Wednesday, although I wish they'd played how to Disapear.... last night. Would've loved Exit Music aswell, although they didn't play it on tuesday either.
No, it's just there was hardly any atmosphere there
during the main set. I may not be part of the "OMG THOM YORKE MAKES ME WET IN MY SKINNY JEANS" brigade, but there's no denying that it only became an mindblowing communal experience when those songs were played, no matter how much I enjoyed the main set. The truth is, Radiohead don't have the charisma or stage presence to carry a set that size on their own, and unlike the best live bands I've seen, they don't add enough to their less immediate material to convert naysayers.
wednesday was more rocky
so i am glad i went then
Wednesday was great
but I would've happily taken Tuesday's setlist. I love pretty much everything Radiohead have done, basically.
It's hard to call.
I think Wednesday is a lot stronger - Myxomatosis, Paranoid Android, Karma Police, 2 + 2 = 5, No Surprises and Lucky should be in any Radiohead setlist, but the loss of The Tourist, Pyramid Song and most pivotally How To Disappear Completely is a real kicker.
There is no definitive Radiohead setlist
That's one of the things that makes seeing them such a great experience - they're always mixing up the setlist. If they churned out the songs you listed in every set it wouldn't be the same.
Actually it would be the same, but that would be a bad thing.
Well
I went to both shows and Wednesday pissed all over Tuesday from a massive height. The setlist was better (although there was some brilliant stuff played the first night it was pretty much all slower songs which killed any atmosphere, but it was nice to see some rare tracks) and the performance was a million times better on Wednesday. It really felt like something was lacking on Tuesday. So glad I went to both because right up until they came on stage last night I was regretting the whole two days.
The crowd were brilliant down the front last night and I didn't encounter nearly as many obnoxious wankers as I did on the Tuesday.
Highlights of Tuesday was You And Whose Army followed by Idioteque, How To Disappear Completely and Reckoner. Highlights of Wednesday were Idioteque into Bodysnatchers and the sing along during Karma Police.
Tuesday
was full of obnoxious wankers but that seems to come with the big gig territory.
I much prefer Tuesday's setlist, really glad I went that night - the rarely played and slower ones (The Tourist, How To Disappear, You And Whose Army, Cymbal Rush) were great.
Would love to have heard Optimistic, Go Slowly and Myxamatosis live though.