Radiohead: Live in Houston [live report]

by on May 17, 2008 with 65 Comments in Radiohead News

Radiohead are playing their first of two shows in Texas. Tonight they will play the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion in Houston. The band have soundchecked Portishead’s ‘The Rip’ again. 15 Step, Dollars and Cents, Arpeggi, Jigsaw Falling Into Place, A Wolf at the Door and Karma Police were also played. Support band, Liars, dedicated a song to Radiohead during their set.

Setlist:
01. 15 Step
02. Bodysnatchers
03. Lucky
04. Morning Bell
05. Nude
06. Pyramid Song
07. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
08. The Gloaming
09. The National Anthem
10. Faust Arp
11. Videotape
12. Optimistic
Thom says this is off Kid A, when “They thought we completely lost it. We thought that was the point”
13. Where I End And You Begin
14. Reckoner
15. Everything In Its Right Place
16. All I Need
17. There There

encore 1:
18. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
19. House of Cards
20. Climbing Up The Walls
21. Planet Telex
22. Street Spirit (Fade Out)

encore 2:
23. You And Whose Army?
24. Idioteque


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  • Larry

    so what’s with the testspecimens image? waiting for our connection? what does that mean?

  • Jack

    Hopefully another superb set is on the way

  • Jack

    Is this some type of webcast?
    Whats going on?

  • losty

    Webcast time? :fun:

  • Larry

    Jack, that’s what i was wondering. Shouldn’t you know the answer as well as the set list since you’re commenting from the future (May 18)?????

  • Niblet

    OH MANG
    unreal

  • Jack

    Its May 18th where I live Larry!!
    :)

  • tehcake

    its been done before guys relax
    nothing is going to happen

  • madaski

    No, it’s not a webcast. AtEast used the same image during the pre-In Rainbows tour. It just means they’re waiting for text messages of the setlist from an AtEaser who volunteered to send them as it’s happening.

  • Jack

    Music is pissing me off

  • hpgirl

    hmmmmmmmmmmmm…am i thinking that there might be a live webcast of the show??!!!

    :D

  • hpgirl

    nvm…
    D:

  • Ben

    are we sure it’s actually “The Rip” that they’re soundchecking, and not just them playing jamming around with Arpeggi a bit…I can understand how they could be confused.

  • melmel

    But the texter says she sees a cam set up at the sound booth.

  • hpgirl

    really, melmel??!!!

    that would be…interesting…hmmmm

  • http://www.ateaseweb.com adriaan

    no webcast peeps… just a setlist

  • hpgirl

    thnx for the clear up

    :D

  • Jack

    Whats this music now?

  • 3

    ok someone better have gotten a recording of the rip this time! HONESTLY

  • http://www.ateaseweb.com adriaan

    Earlier on it was ‘The Little House’ by The Herb Spectacles. Now it’s ‘We don’t understand’ by LPG.

  • theotherlogan

    Can’t fucking wait for Dallas!

  • theotherlogan

    anyone have a pictures of merch from this tour?

  • Cut The String

    Check the message board for merch info

  • madaski

    You can find pics of the merchandise in this forum string.

    http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/index.php?showtopic=235043389

  • melmel

    Damn Ade! :D :D :D

  • http://www.thinkgene.com Kevin

    They’re gonna play it in order…

  • http://www.thinkgene.com Kevin

    Or not.

  • mikeyb

    this is one slow setlist. yawn. they say they like dance music and festivals, then they play 3 piano ballads in a row. is this a coldplay show?

  • Angelene

    Could they drop HoC for a bit, jeez.

  • hpgirl

    CLIMBING UP THE WALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    so jealous, so jealous

  • Angelene

    We all are, hpgirl!

  • sup

    What was the song Liars dedicated to the guys?

  • tampatrader

    funny to watch the commentary on the setlists. i was at the tampa show a few weeks back, and I’d love to see them again, any setlist would do. it’s always great to hear some of your true “favorite” songs, but I’m always just happy for the opportunity to see the live.

  • thecommittee

    what a closer!
    that must have been insane

  • Valsair

    truly awesome. what a good show.

  • darius

    climbing up the walls was incredible. it was a damn good show.

  • holdontight

    No Paranoid Android ? Never seen that.

  • BillyShears

    best setlist so far

  • http://www.last.fm/user/UNTERMENSCHEN/ UNTERMENSCHEN

    ‘Climbing Up the Walls’! Get in there!

  • kristopher

    anyone know what time their soundcheck is?

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  • Brian

    Yeah nothing like screaming the ice age is coming at the end of a concert. I was kind of shocked that we didn’t get the likes of Just, Paranoid Android, or Fake Plastic Trees but we did get a pretty great set last time. And it didn’t matter because the whole set was superb. Amazing concert, makes you realize just how they have to pull from song wise and still put on a great show.

  • dc

    lots of httt.

  • Simon

    I was at the St. Louis show and now after seeing this I wish I was here instead! This set kicks the St. Louis shows ass!!!

    Also I don’t understand what they are doing this tour. They get the crowd so built up with energy like 5x and then throw slow songs in between. Maybe that is what some want but to me it effected the show in St. Louis.

  • Blake

    I just posted a handful of videos from the show, this was an incredible set list and performance, better than when I saw them in Tampa IMO

    http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AA7911A9EAA09562

  • joseph

    i was in the pit at this show… climbing up the walls was nuts… the base was out of this world… shook anything and everything… it was crazy

  • tory

    very jealous. every part of this setlist is nearly perfect.

  • Matthew Miller

    Planet Telex was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen or heard. Wow.

  • jeremy

    no limited edition signed artist prints promoting the show available? i was a bit disappointed… does anyone know if anything is available?

  • hunting bears

    hey where’s the report for the dallas show???

  • thomas L

    i was at this show.
    they also soundchecked The Gloaming and either a totally new song or cover. i didn’t recognize it. i’m not talking about The Rip – i have th ePortishead album. at the very end of the soundcheck Thom was playing this slow mellow song alone on guitar.

    i was only disappointed because this is my third show at the Woodlands and the only new songs were the In RAinbows tunes (the whole album) and Planet Telex and Optimistic. it would have been an incredible first show though, i just wanteed to hesongs i hadn’t heard live before – they’ve been playing tons on the prior dates already.

  • superfunk

    That show was so awesome.

    Just wish they would have played either Karma Police of Paranoid Android.

    But it was awesome

  • Mister!

    Enjoyed this show just a tad bit better than Atlanta, except for our seats. Unfortunately we were in the right section toward the back and in the outside 3 seats, so we couldn’t see the video screen at all. I was hoping w.a.s.t.e. would get us better seats than that, but I guess not. Oh well. I did get to hear a couple of songs tha t we didn’t hear in ATL. Glad we went to both.

  • Diana

    Were you the person that was on their blackberry writing this all down during the show?

  • Josh

    This was such an amazing show, I loved planet telex, the lighting blew my mind away

  • http://www.larevistaenmedio.com Juan Z.

    this was my 2nd Woodlands Radiohead show, and my 3rd of all time (Coachella completes the picture)… came all the way from mexico

    PLANET TELEX was awesome. I loved the variety of the set and IMO they sound better than ever. had the time of my life, best whow i can get…

    i wish someday y could get to se How To Disappear live

  • Mister!

    Diana, if you’re asking if that was me. Nope, it wasn’t. I don’t own a blackberry. And I was too busy singing and dancing to play with a blackberry. I did take my phone out toward the beginning to take a picture, but I have no zoom, so I quickly decided to not even worry about it and just have a good time.

  • Ary

    AWASOME!!!!!! I went crazy on Idioteque, great way to close a show like this!
    My life has changed after seeing them that close!!!! =)

  • http://myspace.com/dingoexp Andy

    remember during You and Whose Army?That was Awesome!
    bEST sHOW eVER!

  • Gary Matherson

    Pretty Good setlist!

  • Adam

    Just want to say that I was at the Houston show, and it was amazing. The set was great. They sounded awesome. The visual was awesome. …All thesse crazy hanging cylinders of lights – & the big screen behind them looked like a produced & edited music video, but it was all just different angles of what was happening right in front of us. GREAT show!!!

  • Adam3k

    Simply stunning

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  • David

    I was the guy with the giant balloon hat at this gig. Absolutely mind blowing!

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