Now that Radiohead have completed the first leg of their 2012 tour, we thought it might be interesting to take a closer look at what the band has played through the first ten shows of the year (the numbers below exclude the Austin City Limits taping). We’re also tracking every song’s performance on our 2012 Tour Songs page which will be continually updated throughout the year.
10 shows
Miami, Tampa, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Austin, St. Louis, Kansas City, Broomfield, Glendale
43 different songs played
(including Hunting Bears and True Love Waits snippets)
Longest show: 24 songs (Miami and Dallas)
Shortest show: 22 songs (Kansas City)
The remaining seven shows all featured 23 songs
Album Breakdown
To organize some of these numbers into meaningful-ish groups I’ve created a group for the material Radiohead have released since The King of Limbs (TKOL+), B-sides/Other (including These Are My Twisted Words), and then all the new songs. 1/12 means one song from that album’s twelve songs were played.
Pablo Honey – 0/12
The Bends – 1/12
OK Computer – 5/12
Kid A – 5/10
Amnesiac – 4/11 (including Hunting Bears)
Hail To The Thief – 3/14
In Rainbows – 7/10
The King Of Limbs – 8/8
The King Of Limbs+ – 3/4
B-sides/Other – 3
New Songs – 3
New Song Frequency
Identikit: 9 performances (debuted in Miami; played at every show but Broomfield)
Cut A Hole: 2 performances (debuted in Miami)
Skirting On The Surface: 1 performance (debuted in Dallas; also played at the ACL taping)
Live Debuts (excluding new songs)
Meeting In The Aisle: 2 performances (debuted in Miami)
The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy: 3 performances (debuted in Dallas; also played at ACL taping)
Songs Played At Every Concert: 8
Bloom, Morning Mr Magpie, Feral, Lotus Flower, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Reckoner, There There, Idioteque
Songs Played Only Once: 6
Skirting On The Surface, Supercollider, Videotape, Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box, Hunting Bears, Climbing Up The Walls
Opening Songs
Bloom (10/10)
Closing Songs
Paranoid Android (5/10)
Idioteque (2/10)
Street Spirit (Fade Out) (2/10)
Karma Police (1/10)
Everything In Its Right Place intros
True Love Waits (3)
The One I Love (REM cover) (1)
Electrolite (REM cover) (1)
Notable Absences
Fake Plastic Trees, Just, My Iron Lung, Exit Music (for a film), No Surprises, Morning Bell, 2+2=5, Where I End And You Begin, Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Appearances by the Red Pants: 2
Protests by Westboro Baptist Church: 1 (debuted in Kansas City)
Radiohead news on this day..
- Atoms For Peace announce American and Japanese tour dates – 2013
- ‘Popcorn Superhet Receiver’ in New Haven – 2009
- Four hour Videotape remix up for auction – 2008
- Another shot from the studio – 2007
- Warner confirms: Radiohead scores ‘A Scanner Darkly’ – 2006
- Flaming Lips on Radiohead – 2005
- Trade Justice Movement Rally – 2005
- Radiohead in NME & OOR – 2004
- John Mayer on his ‘Kid A’ cover – 2004
- Radiohead on compilation DVD/CD – 2004
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