Radiohead Live at All Points West - Night 2 [live report]

Yes Kid A. Please play in Mass.

Phil. It’s clear they’re going to play in rainbows songs again. It’s the fucking in rainbows tour.

The National anthem is played regularly as it’s a fan favourite. Same applies to the gloaming.

Up until song 14 the songs seem fairly diverse from last night.

um…this set is amazing so far.

yes, totally amazing. opening with reckoner is pretty damn tight!!!!

ten song differential…when you get to see them two nights in a row you are mos def going to get to hear like 30-35+ different songs

ridonkulous

NO ALARMS AND NO SURPRISES PLEASE, PLAY IT ON SAN DIEGO

OMGOMGOMGOMG
PLanet telex and airbag on the same night!!!
KID A!!!!
please play this set in san diego!!

Been to many Radiohead shows. This was the best ever. Unbelievable experience. This was something special. Enough said.

So much better than last night…the air was just different it seemed.

I think they screwed up Airbag, but otherwise amazing.

Show tonight was epic.

I agree, something about “Airbag” didn’t seem right and you could tell Thom was pissed, as he went into “Fake Plastic Trees” very quickly after.

I think he actually said, “If we were that good looking we’d be friends” in regard to Kings Of Leon.

Still in awe of the visuals.

NOW THERE’S A FUCKING SETLIST.

KID A!! OHHHHHH PLAY IN AUSTRALIA !!!

photos at themusicslut.com

AMAZING LAST NIGHT!

The show was amazing, can’t wait for Mass. now!

Whomever said Kings of Leon blew is a moron because I never actually listened to them prior to last night, and I think I’m going to pick up a couple of their albums. They were AWESOME!

Reckoner to open was amazing! FPT was so sick. Jonny was absolutely killing his guitar last night!

I was there both nights. Radiohead was amazing both night, but probably better on the second night. I could have gone without seeing house of cards two nights (personal preference), but the were amazing shows, tonight was one of if not the best shows I’ve seen them do. A couple observation…. Why do phrat boys go to radiohead concerts, there is no place for them….Please people don’t sing along to big ideas, Paranoid anderoid…ok, but not when Thom is doing his thing…Also, don’t complain about seeing in rainbows songs, it is there current record and it’s a big hit, what do you think they are gonn play?!?!. Anyways, had to get that off my chest.

Awesome setlist.

I went Friday night and I enjoyed it a lot. I would have preferred the setlist from Saturday, but Friday was amazing as well.

Yeah, I agree with the complaints about the crowd.
Sadly this wasn’t a Radiohead show, it was a festival featuring Radiohead and I got the feeling a lot of people were there to see whoever might be playing.

If you withstood the battle up front, you got treated to asshole kids elbowing their way through everyone at the last minute and saying EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME, while that one dude sat on the ground and read the Business section of the NYT.
Then if you moved farther back, you got the Wall Street crowd talking about their investments during Exit Music and complaining about “all this acid shit” (the Gloaming, etc).

HEY RADIOHEAD, NO MORE SHITTY FESTIVALS UNLESS YOU HAVE TO. THE MORE CONTROL YOU HAVE, THE BETTER. K?

If someone has a video of PLanet Telex please post it.

It was so freaking amazing last night. And the lights during it were, to quote a previous person, redonkulous!

unreal. 11th time seeing them. The trippiest set possible except for maybe MSG 03 night 1. The intense lights made my girl pass out in the Nat’l Anthem. She was back up in the middle of the song but it was so dramatic jaws were just dropping.
Even the frat boys were silent during fake plastic and exit.

awesome setlist!! my best show so far this year!

As one of the previous posts stated, this was the worst music “festival” I’ve ever attended. Radiohead was great as always. The setlist was a little chill with a few too many new songs, but great show overall.
The festival was absolutely dreadful. Golden Voice should be totally ashamed of themselves.
I would never have bothered with otherwise shite lineup, but this was the only Radiohead show I could make this tour. And, as expected, it was nothing more than a glorified, overpriced Radiohead concert.
Tons of people started showing up around 5pm or so because there was absolutely no point in going any earlier. As you walked in, you got a rather vigorous body pat down. I realize the need for security, but it was a little excessive.
When you finally got in, you found about 20 low grade portapotties that were disgusting. And when you got all the way to the other side of the festival, the VIP security informs you that those are the ONLY bathrooms for EVERYONE else. Are you fucking serious?! I’m fairly certain it was some kind of health code violation.
The two other stages were small and crappy. The sound bled into each other from the stages. The only other band worth watching was The Roots, who got a far too brief 1hr time slot on a crappy side stage right next to the food stands and the whack a mole games?! They made the best of it, but I’m glad I’ve seen them lots before.
Getting out was awful. We took the ferry ride, which was a total ripoff. It would have been cheaper and easier to take a cab all the way to the park from Manhattan, but they wouldn’t allow it. The ferry proceeded to drop several thousand people off in a sketchy part of NYC to fight tooth and nail over a dozen or so cabs that ventured into the neighborhood. Totally fucked up. I hope Golden Voice lost money on the festival. But the bastards probably made out ok with the high ticket prices, lack of bathrooms, and the 3 or 4 cheap, weirdo cut-out sculptures in a half assed attempt to make it a cool set up like Coachella. Next time, I hope Radiohead doesn’t bail them out and just puts on their own show. The sound would have been better no doubt. If I had to go to a festival, I wish I could have made Lolla, C3 is alot more competent.
By the way, nice touch with the Free Tibet flags, RH!

kings of leon was the most annoyingly unoriginal band i have ever had to listen to in my life.

that being said,
besides being so far back that it was difficult to see the stage,
the greatest sound ive ever heard. wish i could go back and get closer.

that was the best fucking show i’ve ever seen. just a bit disappointed that they didn’t play myxomatosis or karma police.

Radiohead delivered a great set last Saturday night and the weather was just amazing. That said, as much as I love Radiohead (and the Kings), this show served as a final reminder to me to never attend a general admission show of this size again.
The concept of APW is all nice in theory for the texty myfacebooky tweenty yoots of today (showcase for new bands/modern rock, goin’ green, no cars, tramp stamps, tribal tats, great racks, vote Obama, etc.), but turned out to really be annoying after paying $100 in ticket costs up front ($89 face plus $11 TicketMasturbator fees). Once arriving at the park, there was at least a mile walk to the ONE entrance to the venue (all the way across and outside the park) after deboarding the light rail. This is no prob to me, as I said, last night was one of the best nights weatherwise of 2008. Had it been raining, or humid, dude, we would have had a severe problem. Might have actually wanted one of the $3 tap waters in Poland Spring bottles being sold on the trail to. After that trek, there was a 20 minute line to get IN to the place at 6:30PM (after the festival show started at 1PM). It was easier to get into Yankee Stadium for the All Star game last month. Thats saying something. OK, I get it, extra security, whatever. I’d bet my additional good money, though, it was attributed to lax, disinterested, ill equipped and unorganized security. What are these kids going to sneak in? A skull bong with a stereo mic attached?? Who fucking cares?? Let’s wrap it up, Chiefs, lets go! Once inside, the lines for the Johnny on the Craps were about 200 feet each. Some shithouse stations were only in blocks of FOUR. Fairly insane. To get a beer, you would need to stand on another 300 ft line, get your ID checked, stand in another 75ft line, so you can pay $7 for a 12 ounce watered down Bud Light and not leave a crowded beer corral until you finish and head back into the general audience. By that time, any slight buzz would be sweat out..and back into the line again. Then off that line to join the piss line. Then you may want a tiny snack for some energy. A slice of “real Italian” pizza cost $5. A real “jackup jerkoff” is what its really called. To top it all off, people were EVERYWHERE in this 88 acre spread. Just fucking packed in. I understand people, its a festival, but holy fucking shit. Then, of course, you have the “be in” people laying out in main traffic thoroughfares and resulting in a lot of “hey man, my blanket!” going on. Truly weird vibe. By the time Radiohead came on, people looked EXHAUSTED. There was little to no energy left. There was too much work and time spent to simply enjoy a fucking rock show. Honestly, I have NO idea how they got everyone out of that place last night. I took off at the right time because I had a general idea how Radiohead’s setlist was going to go. The light rail back was still packed. A lot of people had the same idea. So, as Radiohead plays, a mass exodus begins in the back. You know you must be able to look out and see this wave of shadows rolling away. Really weird, here I am, walking away from my favorite band, because I don’t want to wait 3 hours in a line to get home. Maybe I’m just too old for this shit, but, I just think this show could have been handled so much better. When I saw Radiohead here in 2001, it was simply perfect, not overcrowded, perfect space to groove, beer outside a pen. Now, for the sake of being environmentally conscious, sure you get less cars, but hey, now you can sell more tickets creating an overcrowded uncomfortable scene. We are saving the planet shit yeah…and we are making a fucking kick ass profit! The whole vibe of the joint just felt so hypocritical and pig-headed by trying to run a festival in NJ of all places like this. It’s just simply ill-advised and ill-planned. Before saving the planet next time, lets wipe out the fucking unions first. Because that’s what bummed the folks out I saw trying to get home on Saturday, not plastic bottles or errant pot smoke killing the ozone.

What a great setlist. I went the first night and had a great time, much better than Lollapalooza, with a notably better sound mix. That said, I know Saturday sold out so I’m wondering if the sound would have been as good (ie if I was stuck way the fuck behind people like was inevitable at Lolla). Just wish I could have gone to both nights, damn me cursed finances!!!!

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