setlist: 01 there there 02 2+2=5 03 lucky 04 myxomatosis 05 where i end and you begin 06 backdrifts 07 fake plastic trees 08 paranoid android 09 i will 10 i might be wrong 11 climbing up the walls 12 my iron lung 13 sit down. stand up 14 scatterbrain 15 national anthem 16 exit music 17 idioteque Encore #1: 18 the gloaming 19 go to sleep 20 the bends 21 street spirit Encore #2: 22 we suck young blood 23 karma police 24 everything in its right place Picures [by Mieke Brinkhuizen]:

notes: The band played a great set with excellent versions of 'I Will' and 'Exit Music'. The show was the last one, before the band returns to England for a UK tour, which was probably the reason for an extra song in the second encore: the entire crowd sang along with 'Karma Police'. Jonny made a little mistake on the piano, which made Thom burst into laughter. Later on Thom said: "If you're not doing anything tomorrow, you can come to London if you like", inviting everyone to join the Bush protests. The Dutch also had a football match to play against Scotland (a play off match for Euro 2004). Jonny's radio was tuned in to Radio 1, which covered the match. Flashes from the match during 'Climbing up the walls' and 'The National Anthem' were accepted with loud cheers. Thom: "That doesn't sound like a football match..." Just before the second encore Ed announced the final score: "Scotland: 0, Holland: 6".

review by martijn: I never thought this performance could be as good as the one i saw in Nimes last summer, but it was. In fact, it was even a little better, which had probably something to do with the footbal match. Every time Jonny tuned in to Radio 1, it seemed like a shiver went through the crowd...(at least in my perception!) Thom was less talkative then in Nimes, but the setlist was great and the band was great, too. Jonny did some amazing things with is guitar (not that I didn't know he's a great guitarist).
For me the highlights were Myxomatosis, Fake Plastic Trees, I Might Be Wrong, Climbing Up The Walls (where you could hear the radio saying "Van Nistelrooij, van Nistelrooij"), National Anthem (for some reason, this one was just perfect), The Gloaming (which now differs considerably form the album version and i like this one better), The Bends, Street Spirit (i was hoping they would play this one) and We Suck You Blood (during this one the entire audience clapped like on the record, which really seemed to please the band. Nice echoes, too. Magic moment.) And then during Karma Police to which the entire crowd sung along, at one point something went wrong and Thom started to laugh and there it seemed the

audience really pulled the band through. Magic moment.

Martijn

review by twan: Dear Radiohead, It was my fifth concert of Radiohead in 6 years and it was the BEST !!! The music was perfect and the contact with the audience became better and better after every song. Especially the contact from Thom with the audience was WARM and much better than before. He is getting a real frontman He let the audience sing and that was what they wanted. The song We suck young blood was excellent, Thom sang and played and the crowd clapped there hands everytime at the right moment. I think Radiohead had an nice evening in Arnhem and I know for sure that the crowd will be back the next time. VERY VERY much thanks to Radiohead for there performance It was magnificent !!!!!

4 fans from Deurne Twan Derks

Review by Henk: My second RH gig, the first one was at the pinkpop festival, now a real gig. My friends and I got there early, just before 6 the gates went open, my friends and I stood at the front, wich was great. ADF started about half past 7 and was nice, energetic, but couldn't really move the public, they said 'you dutch people smoke to many weed, come on jump', but not many people were responding. ed was playing guitar with them i believe, i saw him at the side with a guitar in his hand.

Then RH, they started at a quarter before 9 with there there, great song, with a great drum, lucky wich was nice, I thougt about this song in the morning, i listened to a bootleg and thougt wat a great song is this, i wouldn't mind if they play it tonight, and they did, great. myxomatosis was superb, really dirty and thom looked very ugly to the public, that must have been frightning if he looked right at you. WIEAYB and backdrifts where great, especially backdrifts, with a great beat, guitar solo and piano, what a song. FPT was great to, jonny was great again during this song. PA although they play the song every time and you've heard the song so much, it still is a great song, and jonny playing 3 instruments during this song. I was supprised to hear I will, beautifull. IMBW is just a great song with a really nice beat. climbing up the walls had a fragments of jonny's radio wich was tunned on the football match, it later also appeared during national anthem wich had great lights. guitars were great during my iron lung, and exit music was beautifull everybody was so quiet. they closed the first set with idioteque, a great song especially if you see thom dance. during the first encore they started with the gloaming, a song that keeps evolving, great live song, jonny was cutting thoms voice through the song. it was nice to hear the bends, and the perfect closure to the first encore; street spirit. during encore #2 they supprised me with WSYB. karma police was a great singalong song, the crowd was singing so load that thom had to laugh and could't sing anymore for a moment, but he continued the song, after the song he sang some lines acapella. EIIRP was the perfect closure to the set, wat a great song is that problably the best song of the night. a guy next to us, had a mic in his hand, he was recording the show, so i asked him if he'll put the recording on-line, he said that if he could do it, he would. so i hope he does it. the sound was great during the set, first few songs thom's voice was cracking a bit, but later on it was so nice, and the lights were great. what a great night it was, thank you so VERY much RH, hope to see you soon...

Henk (hecklehunters)

Review by Joost: Some nice little details that I remember from the concert, and want to share with you: Thom dedicated myxomatosis to "The person who thinks he's won the big prize, but in reality, he's going straight to hell!!" (Nice hint to G.W. Bush..) During the song Thom was sarcastically making the fake friendly hand waving and hand pointing movements Bush usually makes when in front of an audience..
At the beginning of The Gloaming Thom walks up and says about Bush:
"He bought his way in isn't that brilliant". This is sampled by Jonny and later mixed and echoed back at the end of the song..

At the end of "Stand Up Sit Down" Thom keeps singing "the raindrops, the raindrops", after the band has already stopped, and says something like. Of, have we stopped? Then he says: this is what my son keeps singing all the time..

Someone in the audience behind me was holding up a "Portugal" shawl/banner, Ed saw this and began to laugh at him..

At the end of the concert, Ed asks the audience? Would you like to hear the football score?
Scotland zero: Holland 6! Which gets everyone in the audience cheering..

Funny moment during Karma Police: Jonny struck a wrong key on the piano, which made Thom laugh.. He almost cracked up :-)

All in all this was one great concert by Radiohead !

Joost Heesters

Review by CJ: Radiohead Unleashed
Ever since my parents would let me go to concert I’ve been visiting radiohead whenever they come to Holland. I‘ve seen them 5 times. The best performance is still October 97 in Ahoy, I still get tears in my eyes thinking about that, but this one’s definitely second place. They’ve been a bit uptight after OK computer, probably coz everybody hailed them in as the best band in the world.

But tonight they seemed to notice the audience, and they were improvising little bits. Instead of playing note perfect versions like they did the last couple of years, they let their hair down and started playing ever so slightly different rythms & riffs, and the show really benefited from that. The lighting was excellent, great show.

Anyway, they were brilliant as always, maybe even better. I’m still smiling a day after. Couldn’t help going back to the concert in my mind at work todat, I’ve probably not been too productive. Everything was in it’s right place.

Stand out moments were I might be wrong, the Bends, Sit Down Stand Up, and best moment of the night:

Thom in the blue light (for lack of a better word, goosebumps anyway) emoting “Immerse your soul in love”; just like it said on the SS single cover (too bad they didn’t play it’s famous B-side)

6 stars (out of 5)

Review by Cilia: Yesterday I saw one of the best shows of Radiohead. Although the concert wasn't sold out, empty places in the sitting area, the standing area was completely filled.
They started the show with There, there followed with 2+2=5. I hoped they would started with a different setting because last summer at Hurricane and Werchter when I saw them also they opened also with these 2 songs. In this matter I was not lucky, but when they started with the 4th song "Myxomatosis" the evening couldn't be better. I really like this song on the album and was so curious to hear it live and fortunate they did! I think one of the most beautiful songs this evening...
Other highlights were for me yesterday "Fake plastic trees", "I will" (really very beautiful), "Exit music", "Sit down, Stand up", "Idioteque" and "Street spirits". But ofcourse all the songs were great.
During "Karma police" Thom just started laughing about something... That was really funny and a memorable moment.
The sound tonight was perfect and the atmosphere very good (I think dutch audience are often very enthousiastic people with concerts).
I hoped they would also played "Like spinng plates", "Talk show host", "Sail to the moon", "How to disappear completely", "Dollars and cents" and "Wolf at the door", but they didn't :( Maybe they will play these songs in London next week where I'm also going to.
The last thing I can say about Radiohead, definitely the best band in the world!

Cilia (a radiohead junkie)

Review by Carolyn: How wonderful this concert was, and somehow perfectly timed in my own stage of life.
There's no need for me to write down what they played since there are already a few people before me who wrote that.
I was about 10 meters away from the stage, in the middle, so had a great overview of the complete stage.
I was there alone, so to maintain my perfect spot, I hadn't had a drink (nor a pee) since long before ADF.
But all that was forgotten when Radiohead began their There There...
All seemed to be just pure magic... despite the fact that I heard my neighbour sing Exit music louder than I heard Thom :-(
It was my third Radiohead concert, but the first one since 1998 and over time I have downloaded many mpegs from festivals, but couldn't have expected the overwhelming experience of just being there. I pittied it a bit that the people around me were hardly dancing, and also that I seemed the only one there with a light when they played street spirit, which still sends shivers down my spine, no matter how often I hear it; but then, maybe I'm outdated, haha!
The setlist was awesome despite the lack of 'no surprises' and I really enjoyed the constant followup between deep base (techno) and rock and ballads. I became a The Gloaming and Sit down, stand up and myxomatosis fan, last night.
The lighteffects were ingenious and they seemed to give even more depth (is that possible?) to the multi-(sub)instrumental qualities of the band. And yes, the football stuff was funny.
They may not like to hear it, but I personally think they're the best live-band I've seen, ever... and I have seen many. It's the first time since long that I feel like being a teenage-fan, again, haha. I have become a total annoyance to my environment ;)
Thanx you very very much for being there, if you ever get to read this. I wished it never ended. Hope to see you again soon. My warmest welcome for your wonderful guest in London, wish I could have been there (grin).
Carolyn

Review by Koen: They started off with Where bluebirds fly (as they do the last 2 year...) well. After that, the real concert started. Radiohead played There There and 2+2=5. It didn't sound well. From Climbing up the walls, they really got into it and played some fantastic numbers. My favourites this night were climbing up the walls, the national anthem, the bends, we suck young blood and off course paranoid android. Some songs of the Hail to the thief album were played slightly different from the album. I did not like the way they played the uptempo part of sit down, stand up which irritated me also on the Rock Werchter concert of june. It was a cool concert with a fantastic setlist (I only missed You and whose army) but I can imagine that they played better ones.

Koen van Hees

Review by Paulien: Last night I was at one of the most impressive Radiohead shows ever. I've seen Berlin in 2001 (my first show as a fan, and for me the most impressive one, which first shows mostly are!) and of course this summer Hurricane and Rock Werchter.
But last night it was magic again. They played songs from their new album which some of them I had not heard before. They opened with "There there" and "2+2=5", but when they played "Myxomatosis" I really lost it. This song is so beautiful en powerful, played live! The crowd was very enthusiastic and Thom was happy. He really made contact with the audience and his funny dancing ("The gloaming, Idiotique") is so great.
"I will", which sounds so normal on the cd was performed so beautifully, the spotlight shining at Thom, and Thom singing with a high clear voice, giving you goose-flesh. And of course "The National Anthem", "Street Spirit", "Exit Music" all of my favourites, they played and they all sounded so special. The songs I definitely missed this evening were "Talk show host", Sail to the moon", "Dollars and cents", "Spinning plates". What was so funny was that Thom started to laugh during "Karma police", which made the crowd laugh too. Thom, he's so funny!
Next week I'm going to the show in London, Earls court, and I'm really looking forward to this one. Maybe they will play the songs I missed last night. Anyway, Radiohead is the greatest live band if you ask me. I takes a while before it grabs you, but when it does, you are totally lost!!
Paulien

Review by Maarten: I seem to bee the only one who thought the sound was awful!
Too loud(earache's..and i was standing behind the mixer!!) and too much high in the overall sound (saw them at werchter and the sounds was much warmer and soothing),,jonny's guitar was too loud compared to the other instruments.
wich i think is a pity because they are indeed one of the worlds greatest livebands (that lightshow-> amazing!)
luckily the sound got better during the gig, but I just hate these ugly concrete stadiums they somehow don't do right to the music ..

Still.....they played great!!

maarten

Review by Bas: I agree with Maarten that the sound wasn't all that good. This was my 4th
concert, of which Nimes last summer was absolutely magical. One of the reasons (maybe the main reason) for not getting into the atmosphere of the night must be all the mobile phones lighting up around me whenever Holland scored a goal against Scotland (which happened a lot). People were even screaming (It's 3-0) in between of songs.

So I don't blame RH (they played great) but I do blame the audience and the stadium: maybe Gelredome was just a bit too big...

Bas

Review by Nikki: This was my third Radiohead concert, and they're still my favorite band. They stole my heart now. I saw them this summer at rockwerchter and I thought they had a better setlist there, but I will never forget this show. I wans't supised that they started with there,there and 2+2=5, wich are great songs though.I prayed to god that they end with Everything in it's right place. That song is just too good to be true, the piano the lyrics, You've got to love it. And I will never forget that way tom laught during karma police, like many said before. The sound was great, wich I had not expected since I dobn;t like big stadion concerts. And the light show really made the show complete. I'm still a little depressed that it is all over now, Because this is in my opinion one of their best tours. I hope this show will end up on a dvd or something. I already own 2 dvd's wich a great. Well i;m ranting now.

The great thing about Rahiohead is that even their worst song is better than the average bullshit on the radio! Rock on

*yesterday I woke up sucking on a Lemon*

Nikki

Review by Polly: It finally happened! The dream of my life came true, and it’s not an overstatement. I’ve been at Radiohead concert.

Every time I listen to their music I’m like dying and rising again. But when you listen to the record it’s a little bit fake. At the concert I found myself in the center of the cyclone and this time everything was for real.

I was thinking – Thom Yorke would come on stage, hang on to the mike and wouldl be weeping and moaning, smearing the tears all over the grubby face. And I would do the same thing standing in the parterre. And we will all die feeling sorry for ourselfs. But when he went on stage he turned out to be a shaman. He was jumping and twisting, raving all over the stage, spinning, shaking the mike, throwing to the keyboards, shaking his head, hitting the tambourine, saying something soundless to the mike between the lyrics, dancing at the edge of the stage to techno-beat, he was like crazy, and we all did the same thing, at some moments we were singing all together, thousands of us, repeating each Thom’s word, at anothers we were silent, no extra sound, when Thom was singing something very touching, we were silent to rise again with shouting and applause when the music is blowing up.

Shaman, not this miserable misunderstandable youth who could feel each heart with compassion by singing a couple of sentences. Now he grew into a selfconfident man, and his music gives a feeling of completeness of being. You listen to it and you feel that you have nothing more to wish, you have everything inside to be happy. Many people still associate Radiohead with melancholic songs which tear your heart apart, but this is not the only thing about their music for a long time already. Radiohead now are both mad electronic music and guitars, whicked ironic songs and affectionate lyricism, shape lyrics and tunes consisting of million sounds.

They play the songs of almost all of their records, with two encores.

What a backdrop on the stage! There are strips of lights, which change the color and intensity with each song, stable and twinkling, it’s pure psychedelica. And – thanks God - there are big screens at both sides of the stage, showing everything that is happening.

The audience – muffled with sweetish smoke, all ages and nationalities, tall dutch youth, gel in blond hair, with their cute girlfriends, black people with dreadlocks, long hair and shaved heads, young and old, in the floodlight they look like unified organism with thousand eyes.

And I… I just dissapeared. I dissolved in music, I became a vibrating clot of energy. And when again I became a creature of flesh and blood, I realised that I have nothing more to wish, I’ve got everything.

polly

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