Radiohead live in London (Night 2) – Live Report

Great show, I enjoyed the second night much more than the first. A real dream setlist – I’ve waited years to hear Airbag and Planet Telex. To also get Videotape and The National Anthem was a bonus. Crowd seemed livelier and the band in better mood.

They seemed thoroughly bored through Paranoid Android and Street Spirit though. I’d go so far as to say Paranoid Android was lacklustre.
Everything else and especially King Of Limbs and post release singles (with the exception of a sloppy ‘Morning Mr. Magpie’) was excellent.
Crowd seemed to tire, and were noticeably muted during less well known(?) stuff like ‘Staircase’ but ‘Identikit’ went down a storm to close.
Overally, excellent.

2nd night the band seemed the happiest i’ve ever seen them! crowd was a little still, but not through boredom. just that kinda crowd, i guess. i was one from the bar, slap bang in the center, and was probably my favourite time seeing them. Oh – and not mentioned above, they played (almost a full version of) true love waits as the intro into EIIRP.

Only low points for me was Airbag (felt a little stale for such a great song, and thom messed up the vocal a bit), Planet Telex (but only because previous performances i’ve been at had been better) and would have swapped street spirit perhaps for no surprises.

@69d88b9a4562284dfd6150cd61a94cc0:disqus they didn’t play Identikit last night… you thinking of Monday?

I always thought Kurt’s ego got the better of him there. I mean, I can understand Radiohead being bored of OK Computer etc – they’ve been playing tracks off that for 15 years at this point, but Nirvana had been touring Nevermind for what, a year or two, when they did that version (and wasn’t it TOTP?). I don’t think they even demoed it until late 1990/early 1991 in fact, so it was a year or less.
Love them though I did, even I thought they were becoming primadonnas at that point, even if it did make them seem cooler than they already were.
But, I have to say, Radiohead don’t have to keep playing ‘Paranoid Android’ and if they don’t like it, I don’t know why they do. They’ve got a host of songs they can throw in to keep an ‘old school’ crowd happy, so why do bored sounding versions of a song if you don’t like it? Perhaps because that’s all they rehearsed for this tour – that and 3 or 4 other old ones? I can’t imagine that’s the case, but otherwise why not surprise everyone and knock out something else if you don’t like it.
That and Street Spirit were the low points, so why do them?
The crowd seemed keen enough for ‘In Rainbows’ stuff, why not use more ‘old’ tracks from Kid A? Or knock out something from the Bends instead, keep it varied for yourselves?
it was far from bad, but I’d rather not have heard it personally, it’s not playing to the crowd if you don’t do it well.

I was block 402 high upand was desperate to dance, but everyone around me was sat down and I did not want to look out of place, I had the chance to buy a standing seat but did not risk it as I was driving from Norfolk and I felt if I was late I would be stuck at the back, as it was I got there at 5.45!! only hold up was the tunnel, so could of been right at the front if I was standing. learnt for next time.

what do you want the crowd to do during Give Up The Ghost?