Radiohead play surprise show at Glastonbury Festival – Live Report

I called this so long ago! They’re on right before Caribou, do you think theres a chance of a collabiration? I wonder whether they’ll just play TKOL right through?

And I just jizzed in my pants O_O

well . . . good morning . . . and . . . H O L Y F U C K I N G H E L L . . . . . . . these boys are still boys , kids , and fucking amazing . hell . they are fresh as only kids might be .

and well . . . . . enjoy it fucking ‘tonbury . still good news for everyone . and fuck . hell . looking forward to what s going to happen there .

still . . . fuck . . . .

LIVE STREAMING ANYONE???

I picked a bad lifetime to be living in California

Yeah. The US is pretty big. Not all of us can get to Cali. I know. Not everyone in England can get to Glastonbury. Plus, I live in Florida, and RH rarely makes a venture down this way. At least in the panhandle.

I’m not actually sure if it’ll be shown on tv. They are on the park stage, which is never filmed…But then again, seeing as it’s Radiohead, they might have a change of heart. Hopefully.

@super P from pipilandia WTF & LOL

It’s so fucking awesome to know the lads are back in touring-mode. If these rumors are true, and I believe they are (since a “spokesperson” for the band has confirmed this) I am very much looking forward to knowing what setlist they will play tonight.
Will they play every TKOL song? Or will they save some for From The Basement? Perhaps they’ll go with the classics and then surprise us with a couple of unreleased songs? Either way, you can’t go wrong…. PEOPLE!! IT ‘S RADIOHEAD!!!

Since they fly transatlantic, you would think they can at least stop by somewhere in US east coast, right?

Tonight was supposed to be U2′s first appearance at Glastonbury and the band was thinking about making its setlist more subtle and not the usual dumbed down affair we’ve had at U2 shows since 2000. This was gonna be U2′s night, but Radiohead has taken the spotlight and will show ‘em how it’s done!

(Personally, I’d rather see “Achtung Baby” performed in its entirety than anything else, but I doubt Glastonburyers will see it that way.)

Man lets just go for broke!!!

Skirting on the surface
Daily Mail
Open the Floodgates
I froze up
True Love Waits
Wake me(before they come)
Dares not speak his name… That version.

I hope they do not do a tour. Just stay home. Play some close personal concerts and DON’T BURN OUT
and make us wait another 4 years for new tunes!!!!

Relax. Strum your guitar and piano and play us some tunes!

*** the worst thing for this band to do is tour. I’ll always take more new studio-recorded music over a tour that’ll exhaust the band. ***

Muldfeld, I’m so with you on this one

ps. Atease, how about creating a “like” button in your blog.

being a radiohead fan and living in IRAN. isnt it more painful guys?! HATEFULL LIFE…..

The internet is going to be a buzzing when this set list is revealed

I’m just glad i’m not there, look at the scary crowd.

is there a live stream anywhere?

Thom and Jonny were on the Park Stage last year, right? There was no television coverage then, but the whole gig was uploaded to YouTube the next day. Decent quality too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RMdkEC4CKA&feature=related

You can follow the setlist here: http://twitter.com/#!/radioheadlive. I had tickets back in October, but didnt go because of the lame headliner rumours…I still don’t regret it, but RH would have been worth it.

@ a,

no shit, what is that, real live or recorded from last year? but it says 2011? a little confused.

@ rh,

did you contact Radiohead website?

@ a,

whatever they’re playing is so fucking cool! thx! man.

bbcglasto‎ – “Radiohead have told us that they wanted their set to be a special live moment for fans. They didn’t want it to be filmed. Apols”
A special live moment for fans. Fans who didn’t know Radiohead were playing. True rh-fans don’t go to glasto just in case. If you want a special moment do a fucking tour.

Radiohead, why don’t you come to my “surprise” birthday party?

I was going to go this year with hopes of seeing them, but alas, I’m here in 100 degree weather in CA. Oh well, maybe they’ll play in Santa Barbara! Looking forward to YouTube later!

BBC explains why the Radiohead show wasn’t broadcast: “Radiohead told us that they wanted their set to be a special live moment for fans. They didn’t want it to be filmed. Apologies.”

Bullocks. People at Glastonbury had no idea Radiohead was playing. They were there anyhow. Watching it tonight on tv would have been a special moment for me as a fan.

@ cinna,

I’m with you, bullocks!

But I ain’t mad at them, as long as I live to watch their From The Basement while I sit at home comfortably with nice stereo on…. life would be good again.

@fake plastic tunes
I understand them wanting to get the newer stuff out there, but half of the people in the crowd weren’t even proper Radiohead fans, they just want to hear old classics like Just or Creep. For a festival, they should have played older well known stuff with the occasional new song.

I only wish the band had prevented folks from jutting cameras/cellphones (including the blinding glare) in front of people’s faces to film things and confiscated them and not the BBC’s cameras.

I miss going to a concert and not having every jerk try to capture every bloody moment at my expense. People don’t know how to be in the moment at concerts anymore, especially younger audiences.

@JDM very good points there. The thing is Radiohead are a moving forward band, and they have no need to be crowd pleasers. Festival or not they will always give a ‘Take it or Leave it’ type of performance.

This is the best set list I’ve seen them play in a LONG time.

It’s the sort of playlist I was expecting. Was people really expecting an OK Computer/Kid A set? I’m extremely jealous people got to listen to the King of Limbs live for the first time, must of been amazing. The only thing I was expecting was maybe Karma Police to keep the older fans happy but they got Street Spirit which is, of course, a classic. Well done Radiohead!

MUST>HAVE>LIVE>SEPARATOR>>>>>>>>>>>>>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6jxLsjGD7w

Sarah jane, there is no need to share the link twice, Fishinthesea already uploaded it… besides, there are two uploads actually

You know what – Fuck the sun. That article, if want to call it that, is so fucking pathetic. Calling it disappointing because they didn’t play ‘THE HITS’. This is fucking radiohead. Do we need to go through this again – it happened with kid a, and now all over again. A great majority of people don’t try to understand other music, because either they’ve been taught that way, or the general consensus is against it in some manner. They tried playing new songs, and tried it in a different way. This isn’t the 90′s anymore. This is 2011. I feel that the rock formula/regular guitar music is so worn down that we’re not really going anywhere with it. These ‘types of critics’ (not all) are the ones that are keeping us in the same bullshit bubble. Just in general – complete negativity. People forget to listen with their own ears, and see with their own eyes – - – - – - –

There’s a reason Radiohead aren’t doing interviews. No, not some big secret. The reason is – there’s no reason to constantly tear apart a piece of art, dissecting it – over and over again. There’s no need to explain what it is, or anything really. We should be moving forward from our old ways…listening and feeling on our own. Why let art become labeled by someone else – it’s not represented by a number rating of how good it is, or an article on a website. You don’t deem anything as a mistake, or ‘bad’ because of anyone else, really.

blah blah…sorry that sun article was so atrocious. Makes me feel sick.

They don’t play Feral . “The Daily Mail” seems to be the secound “You and whose army”, just a great song, can’t wait for the From the Basement Version.

I’m hoping there’s decent video of I Might Be Wrong though.

Anyone else think The Daily Mail is terrible?!?! Exactly the same template they’ve used for Y&WA, WSYB… Awful!

The setlist is just great. No Bestof-show. I hate it to hear all the well known songs over and over again.

@Sata
Whilst I love the daily mail, it is more or less the same set up for Y&WA, a slow build up and then an explosion of instruments near the end. Still really like it though, at least it wasn’t made all electronic and stayed on piano.

@ mister K :

i dont know who you are [ shhhhhhh ] but do really think THESE ! ! ! people would understand your words ?

good thinking man , but in the wrong place . this blogs were made for the crappy way of thinking [ if any ] , not for the ” go further ” way of thinking .

Why do people want to hear the ‘hits’. They’ve been playing the more commercially well known songs for over 14/15 years. Why not let people who haven’t paid any attension to the band since Kid A have a listen to what they’ve been missing out on.
The BBC Glastonbury coverage rights does say bands can ask not to have some songs and whole sets. I understand and respect their reason to not want the material being transmitted, as they are still working out how to actually play the material live, although, it does annoy me. In the mean time, I shall sit and wait for the Basement recordings. After that, I shall wait very impatiently for the tour announcement.

@ Bananaslice Reverb : on your words [ Isn’t that the definition of mind-expanding music? Or maybe it was because I ate the 625 pieces of tiny artwork. ]

that was the bomb ! ! lmao ! !

I’ve seen the band a fair bit trying my best to actually go every night they play when they visit where I live and to be honest Id love the band to crack out the B sides or new material even if its a work in progress. Ive found my self not wanting to hear paranoid android every time they play not saying its a bad song lol but Id rather something un predictable

I think what makes the daily mail so good is that it is very different from the stuff they have been making lately. I think its an amazing song, and I like what they did with the breakdown. instead of making videotape 2, they made something original. Perhaps this return to an older form will silence the tone-deaf assholes who can’t understand their newer and more complex musical arrangements. At least for a few minutes.

Oops… meant to type:

It makes sense, now it’s “not” total bullock, just half of.

25 seconds of Lotus Flower at Glasto:P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDDVhVIBxA0&feature=player_embedded

We’ll probably get loads of Glasto vids popping up one it’s actually finished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6jxLsjGD7w

@ brttrdmkr

Wow…. i can’t imagine a set list can be that painfully terrible & torturous!

Do you mind to share your wish of a set list?

Second that!

This is a rock version of “Bloom”, what a treat!

Love that additional drumming by Johnny, very simple primal beat.

WTF? How is a special live moment for fans if nearly no fans saw it?

@lifeistao – Oh wait… Jonny is drumming! Holy Shit! That makes three drummers on that song! Wow, my bad!

This is great news! I’m so glad to hear that they’re playing live shows again and I think Glastonbury was a great place for them to start up again after the new album. It’s good to hear they played Staircase live. I’m so excited.

@ Carson

That’s alright man!

@lifeistao you said touring will exhaust the band, but i think they enjoy it too much to play in front of an audience. Even if they play the new album a hundert times. At the end of the Tour they may think. okay enough of that, lets change the direction. And then we will get a new album, not a on with electronicbeats, something slowed down, like “Wake me before they came”, “Follow me arround”. I think they need to exhaust to get new inspiration.

These little bits of magic on YouTube are making me crazy. I can’t WAIT to see more of them. I can’t wait for From the Basement. And I will weep tears of joy when I finally get to see these new songs live. In person.

@cortex

I so agree with everything you said, except those titles of their future songs…

I was agreeing with Muldfeld. But to be honest, I’m so torn by wanting and not wanting them to tour, I won’t go thru great length of explaining myself since they’ve been said and done on earlier posts. But thank you for being sensibly open for questioning.

@cortex, well, Kid and and Amnesiac were quite different but produced from the same sessions. And the gap between Hail to the Thief and In Rainbows and then the latter and TKOL needn’t have been as long. They weren’t experimenting during all that time; a lot of it is getting sick of each other, having to spend quality time with family to avoid alienating wives and traumatizing kids.

I’d be much happier if Radiohead just kept churning out albums without leaving their families for long, which is what happens with a tour.

If there’s a perfect way to see Radiohead’s concert, that leaves no carbon footprint, no prolonged families separation, no exhaustion, that would be in my own “fantasy”, and I’m all good with that.

Posted both ‘Bloom’ and ‘The Daily Mail’ Videos up over at FPT. Wow I have to say Bloom is an amazing little song performed live. 3 drummers pounding away – Nice. I think this will always be the best thing about Radiohead – they are always unafraid to try new things album to album.

http://www.fakeplastictunes.com/2011/06/radiohead-glastonbury-2011-live.html

Lotus Flower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7hwFCBaChQ

yeah, I’ve never been on a Radiohead Concert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEIxfTBlxEg and Little By Little, keep ‘em coming

http://www.fakeplastictunes.com/2011/06/radiohead-glastonbury-2011-live.html

Cool now updated with “Lotus Flower”, “15 Step”, “Morning Mr. Magpie”, “Little By Little”, “Street Spirit”, “Bloom”, and “The Daily Mail”

So that is 7 of the 14 songs. If anymore become available we will add them as well.

*** it’s such a dreaded, dark, despair meaning song but melodically beautiful….. ***

I take it back, it’s actually not despair, it offers hope at the end, but still melodically beautiful and heartbroken…. *_*

Oh, I’ve recorded 7 videos entirely.
Actually, all of the TKOL songs and the two unreleased songs – except Give Up The Ghost. It was supposed to record, but halfway through I noticed that, well, it wásn’t…
But yeah, be sure to check out my youtube channel tomorrow (http://www.youtube.com/radiomad1). I will upload all these videos (front row!) (Lotus Flower, Good Morning Mr. Magpie, Little By Little, Separator, Staircase, Bloom, Daily Mail) throughout the day.

@ cortex

“yeah, I’ve never been on a Radiohead Concert.”

I don’t believe that!

@W_R_, Is that Liam Gallagher??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zhOkeypPB8

“Almost sounds like you stole my line” Upps, i am sorry.

“We think the same things at the same time,
there are to many of us so you can’t count”

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/110628/fuselage

fuselage
mmm you know away from the celebrity media circus on the other side of the valley, the OTHER glastonbury happened.
the one you aren’t reading much about, the one they couldn’t hang.
the fun, chilled out and insane one.
the one that couldn’t give a flying toss who you are really. the one we went for.
the one around the stone circle, and under the flags. in the rabbit hole. in the darkest depths of shangri-la.
around the van de graff lightning generator crackling through in soaking sky,
and in a crashed aeroplane fuselage where we and our friends were.. nigel and i Djing.. until dawn
here’s a selection of what we played.

1. Get Off (Rob3 remix) by Blaqstarr & Diplo
2. Madame Hollywood by Felix da Housecat
3. Raid by Madvillain and Medaphor (and Madlib)
4. Quiet Dog by Mos Def
5. Pon da Floor by Major Lazer
6. On a Ragga Tip SL2
7. Fog Bank by Boy 8-bit
8. Feral (lone remix) by errr us and lone
9. Seamonkey(untold rmx) by Moderat
10. Kill bill Vol 4 by modeselektor
11. Undoing the laces by Nathan Fake
12. Mad again by Boy 8bit
13. Organ donor by Dj SHAdow
14. Original Nutter by Uk Apache with Shy Fx
15. I can’t stop this feeling(pangea rmx ) by Untold
16. why by Pangea
17. Night of the living baseheads by public enemy

Thom

i fucking love this guys

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mmm you know away from the celebrity media circus on the other side of the valley, the OTHER glastonbury happened.
the one you aren’t reading much about, the one they couldn’t hang.
the fun, chilled out and insane one.
the one that couldn’t give a flying toss who you are really. the one we went for.
the one around the stone circle, and under the flags. in the rabbit hole. in the darkest depths of shangri-la.
around the van de graff lightning generator crackling through in soaking sky,
and in a crashed aeroplane fuselage where we and our friends were.. nigel and i Djing.. until dawn

I’m very impressed with how these songs sound live. Even at this early stage.

Makes you wonder what the album would have sounded like if they’d taken the songs out on the road for a while prior to recording them, like they did with In Rainbows.

Looking forward to the BBC performance thing.

I felt a bit alienated by Radiohead for a bit there, but I’m coming back around.

Some good quality uploads by this kind person here: http://www.youtube.com/radiomad1

I had no idea his dance was choreographed, like most fans, I thought his dance was improvised. After you mentioned it, now I can really see Wayne’s movements in Thom’s dance.

Wanye’s innovation in choreography and use of music thrilled me, those dancers move like aliens from other planets, or Reptilians.

I had trouble to view the video, but managed to read the article below, by using Google translation from Germany to English, works great.

cortex, thanks so much for sharing that, it’s a treat.

god bless Aeaouia

Strangely, Atease never created a post for this subject, Thom’s dance video and choreography, it would’ve been very interesting subject. Or maybe I missed it?

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