Hammersmith Apollo review in Evening Standard

Posted on May 19th, 2006.

Being a Radiohead fan is sometimes perceived as being like sitting huddled on a freezing mountainside, waiting for the next icy gust in the form of another brittle, hostile new album.

But the Oxford eggheads are in fact a more generous bunch than most. They forged a close internet relationship with their followers years before the invention of MySpace, and now they are touring with no album to plug until 2007, simply giving fans the chance to hear a generous number of new songs nice and early.

For opening track Videotape, a fragile piano ballad aired for the first time, guitarist Ed O’Brien sat cross-legged before his effects pedals like a boy with a train set. Multi-instrumentalist lynchpin Jonny Greenwood later prodded at a small box that may have been steering a toy racing car offstage. [full review]

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