Radiohead: Live in Dallas [live report]

4. bangers

soundcheck???

Uh, they haven’t played High & Dry since 1997 or so…don’t expect it will ever be played again.

they havent played high&dry since 97 and if you’re asking for creep, you must be new here…

they played creep quite recently at some festival as a closer. it’s not entirely ludricrous. they haven’t played bulletproof much either but FL may.2008, there you go

^to me, it is one of those songs. i absolutely love it. makes me well up. but it might be nostalgia because it’s the first RH song I ever heard back in the 90’s.

I wonder if Phil will upload the video to youtube

They hate High & Dry and have been on the record. It won’t ever be played again. Count on it. As for tonight’s setlist, pretty lackluster if you ask me. It’s very similar (minus In Rainbows) to the 2003 Houston show, meaning the people in Dallas who made the drive in 2003 didn’t get to see as many different songs as they should have. Then again, the last time Rhead played Dallas was 1998…so this show was quite different from that one!

ok, phew!
i’m was going to be pissed if they brought out something great in Dallas.
had i got tickets to this show in addition to Houston (and Houston in 2001/2003(, i’d only have heard one new song in Dallas - Bangers.
so maybe it turned out a blessing to not get tics.
Radiohead are playing great though, so don’t take me wrong. i’m evaluating from hearing new stuff/less played songs perspective.
anyone who hasn’t seen them should definitely see them. the light setup is incredible. they’d playing incredible.
should be interesting to hear if Thom soundchecked the new “houston soundcheck song” again in Dallas.

we got fucking paranoid android-ed, im in radiohead bliss

Oh my god. I danced so hard.

Should be “they weren’t working properly”

Just got home, pretty amazing. was my 4th radiohead show. one of the best stoked to see wolf at the door and reckoner. Bangers and Mash early in the night was a treat considering i felt they started out kind of slow, National Anthem picked things up a hit and from then on they were pure mental chaos. was really disappointed that someone ruined Exit Music, Thom said: “Oh, youre a funny guy? Why don’t you get funny outside after the show, and i’ll show you what funny really is.” During you and whose army thom’s evil stare was interrupted momentarily to tell someone in the crowd ” i love you too” just in time for the band to kick in. pretty epic.

theres a difference between heckling VS. just shouting “i love you thom” once, without any anticipation of a reciprocation

A Wolf At The Door and Dollars and Cents.

This is relevant to my interests…

dallas has got to be one of the lamest cities on the map. 20,000 people and it seemed very few real radiohead fans made it to the show. the review said most everyone was hanging onto every note—not quite. people just were not into it. i looked around every once in a while and the crowd just stood there and barely moved at points when people should have been moving. it was my 3rd show (the other 2 being in nyc) and it just seems nyc fans “get it” better.

other than that, wow. the band was just great and i thank them for coming to such a pathetic place. it’s funny—i was freaking out about how now one was getting into it in dallas and “coincidentally” Thom made a remark about dallas right then and there—then they went into the song “optimistic” - i wish i could be optimistic about it here… however, the songs that really apply to Dallas, TX are “fake plastic trees” - since everyone is fake and plastic here and “subterranean homesick alien” - since everyone is UPTIGHT–and seemingly living for their secrets.

Eight show and they’ve played karma poilcie only once… They played it at nearly every show in 2006
I just hope they’ll ply it when I go to see them ^^

i was at the houston and dallas shows and i am not from texas (minneapolis)… i did like this setlist a bit better (plus we had better seats, one off the pit) but the fact that the pit wasn’t full and the lack of energy was a issue. houston wasn’t much better. my next shows will be back to back in london at victoria park, i am hoping for a blowout there…

Umm, I was there and could barely hear Thom’s comment about Dallas, but i could have sworn it was a positive comment…

wow, dallassucks really sucks. be sure to put your nose down before you get home… glad you live somewhere else.
The show rocked.

Seriously, the crowd was crazy compared to Houston! My seventh Radiohead show, probably ranks 4th behind both Berkeley shows in 6/06 and Dallas 4/98. This show was amazing and my section (100) was totally into it. Maybe dallasucks wasn’t there, I just don’t know what the reasoning could be behind that review? Anyway, get to see 5 California shows in August. Can’t wait!

Oh! And section 100 was totally into it I was there! Second row! Sucks that there was all that empty space in the pit though, made me really sad…

wow, dallassucks…way to be a downer. just be grateful that radiohead is so amazing and lets you witness them live. maybe you’re the “funny guy” who was heckling thom during exit music. keep in mind that a lot of the people who saw the show traveled from all over the country and if we were lame, then dallas doesn’t hold full responsibility for the lameness. if you had been waiting outside the gates for 5 hours before the gates opened…you’d find that many of the people in the pit were diehard RH fans. you must have had really shitty seats because everyone around me in the pit was going crazy. it was the closest i’ll ever be to radiohead and i was screaming and dancing the whole night. if the crowd were so lame, why would phil have taken a picture of the audience?

i heart radiohead. this one was definitely one for the good days.

I got Ed’s “There There drumstick here too!!!” yay!

what exactly did the heckler say?

The heckler said something, and Thom went off on him.

“Your a funny guy, Why don’t you come back and be funny later.”

I thought Dallas was great!

All jokes aside. Not everyone dances when they are at a concert, but they could be enjoying it just as much as some one dancing like an idiot. I happened to be the latter, they could have fit more people in the pit, but it wasn’t because they couldn’t fill it. I bet there were 19,800 people that would have loved taking a spot down there.

Second show of the tour and forth ever…It is amazing every time!!!!

That was an amazing show last night! I was so excited to hear A Wolf at the Door and Bodysnatchers was perfect. I spoke to one guy after the show and he said he came all the way from Argentina for this. That’s some dedication! I hope they don’t wait another 10 years before they come back to Dallas. Thanks Radiohead!

I agree about the band being in a good mood…they seemed to be having fun.

Apparently the heckler yelled out “Hook ‘em Horns”

Well, I can attest personally that it was an amazing concert and that Dallas did enjoy it. This was my first Radiohead show (and I imagine the first for alot of other people from Dallas considering how the band’s fan base must have grown considerably in the last ten years) It was hands down one the best shows I’ve ever seen, but I think because I was so awestruck I had a hard time reacting like a normal concert goer would. You know with all the screaming and singing along and everything. I found myself just standing there and smiling alot of the time cos I couldn’t really do anything else… But just because I wasn’t yelling out “Thom!!!” at inappropriate times does not mean I didn’t enjoy the show. alot.

ps/see you all in seattle!!

just listen - you guys are like girls in school - stop deciding saying what is wrong and what is not - is fu_)_)@@@ radiohead . . . i enjoyed everything - 2 shows in SF and 2006 in BSTN - its f{}{O()_ radiohead - just listen - we can use blogs for other things - or not at all

Dallas and Houston suck as cities, anyone from Texas knows that. If Radiohead wants to be cool they need to come to Austin and San Antonio. Houston and Dallas, who the hell wants to live there?

Here’s what I heard as far as the sound check goes (I was there all afternoon): All I Need (A couple of times), Optimistic (A couple of times), Lucky, Bangers N Mash, Pyramid Song, Dollars & Cents, and the Gloaming (I was so stoked to hear that one!)

geez, enough with the Dallas and Houston bashing already. it’s completely irrelevant where Radiohead play because they create beauty and transform every place they go. who cares where they play as long as they keep playing? say what you will about dallas but that show rocked. not a weak moment in the set. i’m just going to relive this night in my head until i see them again for my birthday in august.

oh, if anyone has good video of wolf at the door, please post it. haven’t found one with great audio quality yet.

I was at the dentist today; as the dentist rested her arm on my cheek that was numb from novacaine, I thought: I wish nude was on the radio as oppossed to the Pigeon Detectives. Still, at least someone drilling on the nerve of a tooth took my mind real agony

CAMERAS ARE OKAY BUT PROFESSIONAL CAMERAS ARE NOT PERMITTED!!! pROFESSIONAL CAMERAS HAVE REMOVABLE LENSES!!!!

If you were there….you know.

I’m going to gut all of the Texas bashers.

You’re just hating cause we have the death penalty.

great set, and a good show that ended up not being worth the trouble. My girlfriend and I left Denton at 630 figuring we didn’t really care to see the opening band and we have lawn tix so we’ll just sit near the back anyway.

We cruise down I35 with no problems. Get 1 mile from I30 when the traffic starts. We hit the traffic at about 700 that evening and we’re about 4 miles from the venue. We pull in to the parking lot of the venue at ten minutes after nine. The worst traffic jam I’ve ever experienced in my life. And I’ve evacuated for hurricanes so I’ve seen my share of traffic jams.

Seems the venue had ONE LANE OF TRAFFIC entering from our direction. So we ended up missing the first 5 songs. We stood at the back of the lawn and it just amazed me how many people were at this show who were just looking to walk around and hang out. We really enjoyed the show mind you, but it didn’t compare at all to when I saw Radiohead in New Orleans on their last tour. That was in a much better venue with better sound, and a venue that was much easier to actually get to. So in the end it was a great set, lackluster sound system, terrible venue.

I had a blast but I was with first timers so I mostly enjoyed watching them enjoy the show. I was genuinely concerned about the setlist until the first encore. There was a ton of overlap with Houston ‘03.

Joe, what are you talking about? They played it.

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holy shit! i was at this one! can’t believe it. i was wanting them to play street spirit, sail to the moon, kid a, and how to disappear completely. but oh well i seen Fuckn RADIOHEAD!