Radiohead Live In Montreal [live report]

by on August 6, 2008 with 74 Comments in Radiohead News

Radiohead are playing the first Canadian gig of the North American tour tonight in Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau. Grizzly Bear is supporting.

So far the band have soundchecked Ceremony (New Order) Bangers and Mash, Go Slowly, Myxomatosis, Like Spinning Plates (twice), Optimistic, I Might Be Wrong and Kid A.

Setlist:
01. 15 Step
02. There There (Thom “Sorry about the rain it follows us around”)
03. Morning Bell
04. All I Need
05. My Iron Lung
06. Nude
07. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
08. The Gloaming
09. The National Anthem (Fireworks going off at nearby festival)
10. Fake Plastic Trees
11. Reckoner
12. Like Spinning Plates
13. Jigsaw (Thom :If you’re feeling cold you can always grab someone next to you. Then Phil went to hug Colin)
14. Lucky
15. Optimistic
16. Idioteque
17. Bodysnatchers

Encore 1
18. Faust Arp (Fireworks went off during the song, put Thom out of his concentration and laughed)
19. Videotape (Thom: “There’s always money for fireworks, the least they could do is put them at the fucking end”)
20. Paranoid Android
21. Bangers and Mash
22. Karma Police

Encore 2
23. House of Cards
24. You And Whose Army?
25. Everything In Its Right Place

[Thx to Stukaman, Cristina & Rene for the live updates]


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  • cracka

    KID A!
    Sweet sweet Kid A C:

  • doctor_odd

    First Canadian date! Go Slowly? Right on!

  • Scott

    For the love of all things holy, Radiohead play all the songs you just soundchecked!!!

  • kid54

    anyone know of soundchecks for festivals..do they happen?

  • trojanpony

    I was supposed to go to this show but my plans fell through so I know it’s gonna be a great setlist.

  • j

    kid a + lsp ?????!!

    SO UNFAIR.

  • zenn

    wowowowow. like spinning plates, kid a, AND IMBW?!

    already looking like it’s gonna be a monster setlist.

    2 more nights til APW!

  • lily

    no 15 step????

  • http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com/userdetails.php?id=95071 how to disappear completely and never be found

    yeah no 15 Step is weird. Maybe whoever is sending setlist updates left it out? They probably opened with it.

  • Zach

    A little short.

  • Stickup

    I would freakin’ love to see Kid A played in Camden

  • Lodi

    Where’s Fake Plastic Trees? Another texter included it on the set list.

  • Alexander

    Wow, great show. In my opinion maybe the best set of this leg of the tour, and I was at Lolla and Blossom. I’m jealous they played Like Spinning Plates. I would have liked to see You and Whose Army? at one of the shows I was at, but I’m still looking forward to Toronto so my fingers are crossed…

  • Lynn

    omg this setlist is epic! wouldnt mind this meself.

  • radiojazzz

    10. (after ‘The National Anthem’, before ‘Reckoner’). Fake Plastic Trees

  • am

    just came back from the show. they definitely played fake plastic trees by the way. a killer setlist, very in rainbows-heavy of course, but the songs worked seamlessly. idioteque was incredible, and the nearby fireworks totally made thom laugh/fuck up during faust arp. beautiful.

    oh yeah, and there was a rainbow right before they went on. take that.

  • GreenChemist

    I just came back from the show. It was a STELLAR gig. Best concert ever! By the way, they’ve also played Fake Plastic Trees between The National Anthem and Reckoner if my memory serves me right…

  • va

    Fake Plastic Trees was performed just after The National Anthem

  • GreenChemist

    Sorry for the redundant info about Fake Plastic Trees, almost simultaneous posts (I’m still too excited). Also for completeness’ sake, I think they’ve sound checked Optimistic twice.

  • cosplusisin

    ^^ they soundchecked optimistic about 1.5 times, not a whole 2 times. they also soundchecked “where i end and you begin”, and some new song (or maybe a cover) before everything else. i definitely didn’t recognize it (it wasn’t super collider), and it sounded like it was probably an original song. sounded pretty “bendsy” and also a bit fast paced like arpeggi. they didn’t seem to play the whole thing.

  • trojanpony

    grrrrrrrrr

  • luke

    I like video games

  • iamwormbuffet

    yeah put Fake Plastic Trees in there, it happened and it was fucking awesome!!

  • Martin

    Great show! Sound could of been louder though…

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  • Mononcsebyt

    You missed Fake Plastic Trees between National Anthem and Reckoner

  • http://rantingraving.wordpress.com/ Nikita

    The show was amazing!!! Soooo many people and soooo much mud! Glad I wore my rubber boots!

    After Thom laughed/messed up in Faust Arp (which I managed to catch on video!) he changed the last word of a line to ‘fireworks’. :)

    Fantastic set list, great performance… got to stand by Win from Arcade Fire for most of the show. :D

  • http://kn0x.ca Kn0x

    This show was Awesome… Best show i’ve ever seen. The Rainbow just before the show was nice. The only one I personally think was missing out there was The Bends.

    A GREAT show!!

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  • levedad

    why they dont play let down anymore …

  • ParkaPal

    I am ridiculously jealous of the poster who was standing by Win.

    Did he seem to be into it? I’ve been noticing a lot of Arcade Fire + Radiohead connections recently. At least everytime Montreal is brought up in relation to Radiohead that is.

  • Sean Perrin

    FYI Adrian:

    During Faust Arp Thom stopped singing and laughed aloud at the incessant fireworks.

    They attempted the “Hunting bears” ending to National Anthem… but it didn’t go so well and was aborted.

    Bodysnatchers had a semi-false start and the whole song was subsequently a bit off…

    and they played Fake Plastic Trees as well… I don’t see it on there.

    ALSO… My first Radiohead show ever… and the best set-list imaginable!

    Bon!

  • David

    The first song of the soundcheck is also missing: it was New Order’s Ceremony.

  • am

    according to the gazette, 35000 people came by the way, second-ever at the venue.!

  • roland

    This setlist is missing fake plastic trees, i believe they played it after morning bell

  • http://n/a Steven

    Um…. Fake Plastic Trees should definitely be on there somewhere.

  • robodex

    As for the fireworks, I was in montreal a few weekends ago and apparently they do it every few nights or something like that during the summer. The convention I was at actually had an event where people went up on the roof to watch the fireworks :)

    can’t wait until molson!!

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  • Charlie

    I was at that awesome show, and Fake Plastic Tree is missing

  • http://the2scoops.blogspot.com the2scoops

    Fantastic show – Nikita and I were standing amongst most of the Arcade Fire – Nikita was over by Win (tall man stands out), and I think I saw Wil and a few others about. Cool that they were keeping a low profile and were just there to see the show. “And they did play “Fake Plastic Trees”, though I can’t remember at which point in the set). Thanks for the setlist!

  • manu

    Gloaming was mixed with Kinetic.

  • Gabrielle

    They also played Fake Plastic Trees…
    You forgot it in your setlist.

  • alull

    yep. Fake Plastic Trees was played.
    and wasn’t it when Thom got distracted by the fireworks and slipped on the lyrics?

    and what’s the song where he mentioned the fireworks?

  • WestChinchilla

    They played Fake Plastic Trees after Reckoner.

  • http://rantingraving.wordpress.com/ Nikita

    ParkaPal – Win, Will, and Richard Parry were there. May have been others but I’ve never seen any of them up close so I’m not sure. :) Everyone seemed to be having a great time. Win and Richard certainly didn’t have a problem seeing right over the crowd.

  • Vince

    Anyone knows what was playing before the show..there was one particular track that lasted a good 20 minutes..it was an electronic track that sounded like a cross of William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops and Gas..It was one of the first tracks on the playlist(a playlist probably made by Thom because it all sounded like the kind of music he’d like)

  • runnerjob

    Si quelqu’un me dit qu’il n’aimes pas radiohead …….. je ne suis plus responsable de mes actes ????????

    Ce band se rapproche de la perfection.. Un évolution musicale plus qu’exemplaire…. Nous voyageons dans une autre galaxis …….

    Nous devons retourner loins dans les années 60 pour retrouver des artistes aussi créatifs. Le seule remerciment que je peut adresser au peuple britanique c’est d’avoir enfanté des artistes aussi SUBLIMES……… ( QUI EST TRÈS HAUT DANS LA HIÉRARCHIE DES VALEURS ESTHÉTIQUES, qui mérite l’admiration.

    Parc jean-drapeau: aout 2008, Cette soirée restera bien gravée dans mes souvenirs.

    Thanks

  • garbage

    lucky
    optimistic
    bangers n mash
    i will
    2+2= 5
    wolf at the door
    backdrifts
    body snatchers
    go slowly
    killer cars
    down is the new up
    all i need
    exit music
    the trickster
    talk show host
    pyramid song
    paranoid android
    climbing up the walls
    jigsaw falling into place
    there there
    you
    where i end and you begin
    sail to the moon
    planet telex
    (in no particular order)

  • Rami

    hey i was at that show and they played Fake plastic trees and it’s not on this set list. i thought these people were reliable ??

  • A

    between #9 & 12 the activities are the opposite..the fireworks went on while Jigsaw played, johnny was explaining to thom what the noise was and caused Thom to chuckle in the middle of singing it. :P

  • A

    WOW morning bell and my iron lung :O

  • JP

    yeah! as always, excellent.

    they played fake plastic trees, should be add to the setlist..

  • Eric

    I think Thom played a bar or two of Super Collider before EIIRP. Did anyone else notice that?

  • Tad

    At 18, I think Thom actually joked “We’ve paid all this money for fireworks, the least they could do is put them at the fucking end!”

    Absolutely awesome by the way nearly a full 2 hours of live Radiohead.

    It looked like they enjoyed themselves as much as the 35000 of us watching did!

  • Marco Lafrance

    About the mtl show, Fake Plastic Tree was played…not sure exactly where in the set…
    Marco

  • Kervin

    they sound checked Kid A but didnt play it? im sort of reliefed and annoyed at the same time.

  • http://www.myspace.com/mysmalladventure My Small Adventure

    I think Ill ask Radiohead to be my opening act for my forthcoming tour. I think that they would go down well.

  • Benito

    That show was simply amazing, the sound , the light everything. Also, that night was the end of big fireworks contest. Hopefully, the rain stopped almost as soon as Radiohead hit the stage. So we had Radiohead playing outside in front of 35000 people and a fireworks show ! What a night !!! Viva Radiohead !

  • jules

    cause I’m the rain.

  • mark

    national anthem had the hunting bears ending

  • sophy

    in limbo you guys, you know in limbo? right? IN LIMBO GODDAMN IT

  • Zach

    Why did no one change the Fake Plastic trees mistake?

  • Mark Baker

    Great show in Montreal….wish the fireworks weren’t such a bother….they seemed to bother Thom as well.

  • cccceeee

    grizzl=y bear were amazing

  • http://www.beavotron.com Alex

    he didn’t say “there’s always money for fireworks” he said “they spent all this money on fireworks…”

  • Durandal

    Yep, Fake Plastic Trees is missing from that list. Kid A was sound check only, In Limbo wasn’t played. Settle down people, haha.

    What an amazing fucking show. Worth going across the country to experience. I can’t say whether this was better than the Vancouver ’03 show or not, but it was at least on par (different sets, equal amount of awesomeness). Can’t wait for Vancouver, Seattle, and SF.

  • http://sampleblogdotcom.blogspot.com travis

    what about fake plastic trees?

  • mark

    national anthem had the hunting bears outro…

  • mark

    national anthem had the hunting bears outro…
    and i did hear something before eiirp… maybe super collider

  • Sheepliner

    Greatest fucking thing I’ve ever seen or heard!

  • simonvx

    Amazing show! I still can’t believe I was there… I have no words. Let me share 2 pictures instead: the rainbow that magically showed up during the opening act, and a panorama I did while they were performing Karma Police.

  • cosplusisin

    they definitely soundchecked “where i end and you begin” too.

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