Radiohead: Live in Charlotte [live report]

by on May 9, 2008 with 70 Comments in Radiohead News

Radiohead are playing their forth show of the 2008 tour at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Charlotte, North Carolina tonight. The band sound checked There There, The Gloaming, 15 Step, Punch Up At A Wedding, Planet Telex (twice), Sail To The Moon (twice), Jigsaw Falling Into Place (just the beginning and then the full song four times as Thom complains about the reverb), Go Slowly (twice), Myxomatosis, Idioteque, Bangers and Mash (a teaser then the full song), Bodysnatchers, Knives Out and All I Need. Radiohead is due to take the stage around 8:45.

Setlist
01. All I Need
02. There There
03. Airbag
04. 15 Step
05. Nude
06. Sail to the Moon
07. Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi
08. Myxomatosis
09. Idioteque
10. Morning Bell
11. Videotape
12. Optimistic
13. Where I End and You Begin
14. You and Whose Army?
15. Everything In Its Right Place
16. Bangers and Mash (Thom: “I’m Spiderman, Jonny is Cat Woman”, Jonny ‘scratches’ at him, Thom: “Tell me later.”)
17. Bodysnatchers

encore 1
18. Go Slowly
19. Talk Show Host
20. Exit Music (For A Film)
21. Planet Telex
22. House of Cards

encore 2
23. Paranoid Android (Thom before: “Everyone stay still so Colin can take a pic of the crowd.”)
24. Reckoner


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  • watermelonkid

    Planet Telex!

  • Spuffmeister

    Planet Telex! Twice!

  • Thom Yorke

    No Jigsaw at the last three shows…I swera it is the only song off of In Rainbows that they have not played. Going to two shows…really hope to hear it at least once…is that too much to ask?

  • shelby

    Sail to the Moon……that is fucking kick ass.

  • Thom Yorke

    Ahh…they sound checked it…twice..thank god…

  • Good Afternoon

    THIS LOOKS SET TO BE GREAT

  • dellan

    4x Jigsaw. Nice.

  • Pickled

    Thom did say that Jigsaw was a bitch to play live. Not surprised it’s seldom been seen yet (and that i’ve soundchecked it four times).

  • Beth

    Last nights show was amazing!
    I hope to hear Electioneering or 2+2=5…
    AHHH or Talk Show Host AGAIN

  • Adam

    GO SLOWLY!

  • joe

    ugh i want to hear go slowly and myxo!

  • rollercoastermike

    uhhh… anyone notice that they soundchecked with PUNCHUP???

    theyre pullin one out of the bag each night!!

  • Cat

    Can’t wait until they get to Europe so that I can follow this live. They may play Punch up? Wow. Nitey.

  • Cee

    Oh my god. At this rate, I think am gonna sit just outside the barriers in Vicky park London for the soundcheck of the two concerts and have a bbq there b4 the gig.
    SWEET!

  • http://OWNS JiJi Da

    98 % of all Radiohead’s songs are worth to live

  • melmel

    oh wow. don’t beat Atlanta please. please. please.

  • candy

    Sail To The Moon. Yikes…

  • RYaN

    sail to the moon, in the past they played scatterbrain when STTM is soundchecked

    go to sleep would
    be perfect

  • luke

    i wish they’d drop the HTTT songs, with a few notable exceptions: there there, 2+2=5, the gloaming, wolf, myxo…the “in rainbows” songs are so much more interesting

  • spike

    I hate myxomatosis and the gloaming. I just don’t get those songs at all.

  • Louie

    Hail to the Thief is fucking great. You crazy.

  • Mike

    sail to the moon… I love it…

  • vegas

    airbag, nice

  • Sergio

    planet telex must have been great

  • hunting bears

    wheres 4 minute warning??

  • lizzie

    spiderman and cat woman???

  • Benito Camelo

    planet telexxx

  • erin

    jonny “scratches” at thom?? must. find. video.

  • thomas L

    wow. Myxo/Airbag/Go Slowly/Planet Telex/Sail!
    if they dropped PA and EIIRP they could play 3 or 4 songs in their place.

    Myxo/Airbag are two of the songs i’ve always wanted to see!

  • Brett D

    I am still in the parking lot waiting to leave the show. Planet Telex was AMAZING! Best visuals so far. What a fucking night.

  • Janet

    Planet telex!!!!! and talk show host!!! waiting for Glasgow & Berlin becomes more and more difficult, with all these amazing live reports…

  • Janet

    … & Everything, & morning bell!… rrrrh….

  • steven h

    Thom also introduced Go Slowly with “this is for the bittorrent.”

  • blugel

    i was soooo hoping they would continue playing ‘let down’ from the previous tour =(

    (always wanted to see them play that song and they finally do on the one tour i didnt go to since 2001, sob)..

  • Cat

    I guess they’re still not happy with Jigsaw live.

  • Max

    PLANET TELEX. I WILL CRY WITH TEARS OF JOY IF THEY PLAY IT AT THE BOWL.

  • http://ruralcemetery.blogspot.com Rural Cemetery Movements

    it was jonny who took the picture, not colin. i was there.

  • Jason

    Yes it was Jonny… what an unbelievable night from the boys. Although it was an absolute mess getting out of the VZW Amphitheater, the show was perfect. Loved hearing STTM and Telex (both were surprises to me) and also the way Thom utilized the screen during “You and Whose Army” was phenomenal. “Videotape” is a beautiful song and was spectacular live as well. He used the phrase “Cool beans” on three separate occasions tonight and as the first encore started, he used the sometimes familiar “Hello. We’re Radiohead. Pleased to meet you.”

    It rained for about a third of the show and there was some crazy lighting as well… but honestly it added a little to the show as the sky had a reddish haze to it all night long.

    Just a great great night that I will never forget.

  • http://jharowicz@tmeple.deu Joseph

    I have a serious boner and I’m hammered right now.

  • meko

    what’s with only the new stuff. why can’t I ever hear ‘Karma Police’. new is great but why can’t they remember where they came from? Get out of the parking lot and go home.

  • Jason

    Also the superhero talk started with Thom mentioning that Ed could be Batman… “I would be… Spiderman” and after a decently long pause… “Jonny would be Catwoman,” which led to the aforementioned scratching gesture.

  • dc

    meko…to be honest….they closed the show i saw them on the last tour with karma police…and as much as i love that song i don’t think it was one of the highlights of the show. like it would be sweet if they played it but they have soo many better live songs.

  • Jason

    I really wanted to hear “Karma Police,” but honestly I have fifteen or twenty live recordings of it and many of the other classics they passed on last night. It was nice to hear some songs I had not heard live before… but I definitely understand that point as well. The show felt unique with some of the choices, which really made it even that much more special in terms of an overall ambiance the night created.

  • meko

    dc, i still don’t get it. if they can’t play the studio songs live…can they really play? are the ‘live’ stage songs really better, or just all they muster up infront of an audience.

  • Jason

    My opinion on that would be similar to Ed’s comment that they would be heading back to the studio as soon as the tour was over to keep things fresh with brand new songs… I would not doubt they have played a lot of that stuff to death. I was ecstatic they broke out “Talk Show Host” as well… but I made the statement before they started that Thom could walk out and tell us what they would have played, played nothing, and it still would have been amazing… to me it’s the one act where no matter what is played, it was a great choice. Blind bias perhaps, but it’s a wonderful thing sometimes.

  • Jordan

    The catwoman thing was when Thom sat at his drumset and said that instrument changes were like costume changes, and that ed could come out as batman, he could be spiderman, etc.

    Also, they dedicated sail to the moon (“maybe you’ll be president”) to “the fine people of North Carolina and that guy Obama,” if I heard correctly. Thom said something before that that I couldn’t make out.

  • meko

    It was a great concert but not worth the hype that has been leading up to it. I was in college when their ‘classics’ were out and it was hard to not hear any of them tonight. It felt like a McDonalds Happy Meal without the toy.

  • hpgirl

    concert was amazing…it’s all a blur to me…

    wish i could remember jonny doing the cat scratch thing….hmmmm

    hopefully someone will put it on youtube if they caught it…

  • Dawson

    if they play planet telex at manchester Ill die! in a good way.

  • spike

    not enough bends/ok computer.

    reckoner is a good song to close the set on.

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  • trojanpony

    wow, best setlist of the tour so far. i’m seeing them in virginia and i really wouldn’t mind if they played the same exact set. that’s nearly perfect.

  • KidADD

    It was amazing! The rain clouds, lightning in the distance, and then, if you were paying attention and in the lawn, during Bodysnatchers a shooting star bolted across the sky dead center with the stage. It was far beyond magical. Hopefully someone can back me up on that.

  • The Gimp

    KidADD – I’ll back you up on the shooting star – that was pretty amazing. The skies were alive last night.

  • GRZA

    Terrible, terrible venue. Sound quality was poor. Considering the band’s politics, I find it odd that they allow themselves to booked into these places. I had a great big Verizon Wireless sign shining in my face the whole time. (After I made my way through the Hardees Thickburger Boxoffice). I had a twelve dollar budweiser and refrained from purchasing a $40 T-shirt. If you’re serious at all about music and have bad seats don’t bother. Left early to beat the traffic.

  • matty

    ggreeeee i probaply will n ever have time to see on stage the one of concert cause time stop &runningfor me but i still hoping got my day of a Great oppotunity to see and hear in live the Radiohead band …repect

  • superfunk

    please god let them play sail to the moon and paranoid android in houston

  • http://www.plasticclouds.com joe

    simply amazing show.

    couple pics at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/j2willi4/

  • KidADD

    I think what’s more amazing than the ‘light show’ is watching the videos on YouTube. I’ve only found 2 so far, and you can hear everyone under the pavilion talking… during the songs. But if you listen closely enough, you can hear the lawn singing in the background. Proof of where the real fans are…

  • nate

    I really hated the fact they didn’t use the two screens to the sides of the stage. We were sitting on the far side of the seating area and could not see much.

  • http://www.myspace.com/ydbthump Mike V

    Bangers & Mash is a SICK ass song and they should feel silly for leaving it off the proper In Rainbows disc. That one drops bombs. It’s a great segue from that into Bodysnatchers too. Great way to end the set. Myxamatosis was insane and a lot of fun to dance to. I was really glad they played Where I End & You Begin again last night. I think that’s my new favorite.

  • fiend

    fucking depressing man. i love radiohead, and i loved the show, the visuals were great, but i guess i didn’t realize how it was gonna effect the crowd. most everybody seemed either spun out of their minds or in too deep of an emotional state. everywhere was that blank stare… it really depressed me. but the fact that the music had that sheer power on 20,000 people is just remarkable. sometimes i just wish they’d brighten up the music a little…

  • Justin

    I recorded a video of talk show host… I put it you tube, i had to decrease the quality for it to fit. Hope you enjoy.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okRz3Pw_lZI

  • Gary Matherson

    Where I end and you begin is such a great song – glad to see they keep playing it!

  • Graham

    for anyone who cares….I witnessed my first ever Radiohead show last night in Charlotte….and though they played for over two hours….it seemed to flash before me so quickly that I am having a difficult time remembering every amazing detail of the show…..truly astonishing…….every song kicked live….Bangers N’ Mash, Bodysnatchers, There There, Talk Show Host, and Paranoid Android where unbelievable…..and yes….the lightning before and during the first part of the show added to atmosphere………….simply stunning……..the visuals were just amazing………the greatest show I have ever witnessed….If death were to knock at my door this very moment…I would die happy………

  • RD

    Before Paranoid Thom also said “this is a nasty little bugger”…

  • Jacob

    No one has mentioned anything about Thom saying “cool beans” twice, so I’ll say something about it. Hey, remember when Thom said “cool beans” twice? Yea, that was funny.

  • Ben Dover

    I recokon to keep everyone happy here, RH have to play every song they have ever recorded, and their b sides too!

    I have itunes and according to version 4.7.2541, all of RH would amount to 6 hours 12 minutes and 3 seconds.

    Of course, we can’t assume they will play every song with exactly the sme lenght as the CD copy but this does give us some idea of how long the gig would be.

    Now the question – what order to play them in?

    Chronological, alphabetical or even random???

    Decisions, Descisions, decisions.

  • Paul

    My first Radiohead show. Fucking awesome. Not much to say that hasn’t been said already. But I’ve got to put in a word for Phil Selway, who is one of the best drummers playing today. Can’t imagine Radiohead without him. Superb setlist. I can’t imagine a better way to end the night than Paranoid Android and Reckoner. Thank you, Radiohead. Please come back soon.

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