Radiohead Live in London - Night 1 [live report]

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See you there!!

does anyoneknow if there was a golden circle at this gig

Think i’d be a bit disappointed tomorrow if they didn’t play either My Iron Lung or Paranoid Android. Bit old skool of me, I know but do wanna hear the classics.

I hope they don’t play dollars and cents tomorrow.

Not at all what I was expecting out of a London crowd– perhaps closer to the front was a little more excited, but a great show nonetheless. It always amazes me how incredible they sound.
I had resisted checking previous setlists before tonight, so I was more than pleasantly surprised by some of the choices -the Tourist in particular. Fantastic.

i was there tonight as well and after attending houston and dallas, i’d say that this was similar to the houston show - however it seemed like they were mixing it up a little bit, adding some different riffs, and climbing the walls was almost like a remix. everything before the first encore was a little routine and thom did mention about how nervous he was… when was his last “home” show? can someone add each of thom’s comments? I can’t seem to remember them all…

Cancel last!! It was BFL. Maybe that was just a song title. They were great though!

thom said something funny about having to hurry the encore .. something along the lines of ‘the pumpkin is coming at 10:30′ .. i think a cinderella reference.

anyways, the gig was awesome. show ended around 10:30. massive crowd. LOOOOTS of extras. if you have an extra, i suggest trying to sell it beforehand via this board or http://www.gumtree.com … otherwise, expect to sell it for way below face.

ideoteque was pretty tight.. some cool e drum melodic effects going on. overall a good show, awesome venue, awesome lights.

they played the tourist! happiness abounds.

climbing up the walls was amazing!! getting home wasn’t so great tho… had to use 3 different forms of transport but it’s all good! hopefully they’ll switch it up and play some different classics for tomorrow night! can’t wait…

Bat For Lashes is the stage name of Natasha Kahn the singer. The Blue Dreams are her newish backing band. They went off due to sound problems and then came back on again 10 mins later.

I love Thom Yorke’s solo album, and it’s cool that he’ll play a song from it but how about stuff from the b-side of “In Rainbows”? “Up On The Ladder”, “Down Is The New Up”, “Last Flowers”, “4 Minute Warning”.

I want 4 minute warning!!!!
such a great song, esp the live version…

Ok- few things.

1) Not letting food and drink into the arena is fucking shit.
2) I knew the crowd would be big but that was fucking enormous- it was like a headline slot at Glastonbury. Anyone know how many people there were.
3) The sound on the first 6 songs was fucking horrendously quiet. When you can hear people around you talking- it’s too quiet. However- the sound guy sorted it out from The Gloaming onwards.

I didn’t pay £42 to see my favourite band and not hear them. I was nearly crying at the lack of bass on ‘all i need’. It was criminal and i thought the gig was going to be horrendous

However- The Gloaming was the turning point and theband seemed to get well more into it.

The light show was pretty ineefectual until it started getting dark- btu when it did. Bloody brilliant.

Jigsaw made me want to cry.

Fucking amazing from The Gloaming onwards.

Well done lads

1st of July. Amsterdam gig!!!

It is a bit rubbish that you can’t bring your own drinks to the park, but that being said; drinks were only £3.30, which is really not bad for a “festival” beer. And queues were basically non-excistent. I was a bit worried after going to Field day in the same park last year, and queuing for up to two hours to get a pint.

Only things I can remember Thom saying is: “I love you too baby!” (to someone in the crowd), “You’re all gonna have to sing along to this one cause I keep forgetting the words. But they’re fucking shit anyways” (about Planet Telex).

Did anyone else notice “Everything In It’s Right Place” being spelt out in the lights. I only noticed it just as the song finished. Lighting was ace!

SOmeone asked when the last ‘Home’ gig was - it was at V festival August 2006. Since then they did a small ’surprise’ gig in January in Brick Lane, London.

Ps i also agree with gord. Jonny Greenwood is a god!! his guitar work is mind blowing!! so talented

amazing gig! I managed to get to the middle of the 15th row [slightly to the right] between Thom and Jonny and until the crowd went silly I had a great view. The setlist was faultless and the guys were on form throughout. highlights were: HTDC, CUTW, Gloaming, there there and idioteque.

We joined the relatively small queue around 1pm, started getting a bit busier around 3ish and didnt stop growing until right up to radiohead took to the stage [around 20:30.] the crowd was absolutely enormous.
getting in through the gates was swift and although we were told not to we did have to run the distance to get to the front. As I said before we got a good spot and the crowd were cool for the most part.

now for the bad bits:
smoking and blowing it in peoples faces is seriously not cool. The majority of smokers didnt even have the common decency to ask their neighbors if it was ok for them to smoke. there was hardly any room as it was and difficult to get breathing space without some twat blowing smoke in your face constantly.

the moshing. this is radiohead gig not fucking fall out boy. just enjoy the music without trying to kill everyone around you! dancing = fine. kicking, punching and strangling the person in front = not fine.

those bat for lashes masks! whatever numpty thought it would be a good idea to hand those out needs fucking shooting! most people dumped them before they got into the venue but trust some twats to prop them on top of their heads for the entire gig therefor obscuring the view of the stage for anyone behind them!

food and drink prices inside the venue were beyond ridiculous. £3 for about 5 chips! my bag was barely checked at the gates so its possible to sneak food in. I took just the one bottle of water in which was permitted and my friend had about 3 and they were ok with that as well so just try your luck really.

so enough with the moaning…:-)

hope those going tonight have an equally great time. I really wish I had got tickets for the second gig as well.

i’m going to see them on friday and would be thrilled with this set list

I’m going again tonight so I hope they mix up the songs

Spike - your going again!!! so lucky!

Agree, disappointing! Bad setlist compared to the ones they played in the other dates of the tour. They start at 8.30 which is too early cos the stage and the screens are very cool when it is dark. They play for less than 2 hours.

apologies for spelling mistakes!
(idioteque etc.)

@Paul

Ok, now THAT is a setlist!

My head is still buzzing from last night. I have not had time to reflect on the amazing gig so far.

So an unedited photo dump is on http://www.flickr.com/photos/arendpictures/sets/72157605809726735/

Amazing gig, great night. Never felt like this after a concert!

was there a golden circle??

just an edit on my last message
the the independent newspapers stated that
the crowd was about 40 000. and there
were chants of “Free Tibet”

I had been waiting 6 years of my life to see Radiohead live! Naively, i never once thought the crowd could be so huge and crushing.
I was near the front to begin with, alll was cool through bat for lashes..and the inbetween-y parts…until radiohead appeared…and out of no where..the most obnoxious,arrogant,selfish wankers I had ever experience at a gig..began to ‘mosh’ …They were grown men..so grown they were balding..and they were jumping into people..whacking me in the back/head..causing other people to fall over and get crushed themselves. i couldnt hear the music.. i could see a thing! It was horrible:( in the end me and my friend pushing through the crowd..and found a little patch of grass..just to the side of the stage, with enough room to dance! and from that point..it was the most amazing time

@Paul ( the confused)
Personal taste? My stupidity? I said it is silly to complain at a set list. I think it is ignorant to moan that a band did not play the songs you wanted. I did not mention technical or sound problems. I think you need to calm down and stop stating how long you have been following a band as if it means something. I enjoyed the concert and expressed it in my message. I’m sorry you didn’t, no need to get in a huff.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the ignorant tw*ts in the audience who couldn’t even be bothered to pay attention to (or even stand facing) a band they’d paid close to £50 to see. Every time I moved to get away from them, I was greeted with more. I had to tell so many people to “sssshhhhh”, when all I really wanted to tell them was to “shut the **** up!!”

Great gig! I loved The Gloaming, Dollars and Cents, How to Disappear and You and Whose Army… well all of it actually.