In Rainbows Live

Saturday night, we went to the Radiohead show. In a word, it was amazing. They played in an outdoor theater and the weather was awesome which is somewhat unusual for this time of the year. As we were driving up we talking about how many weirdos would be there, but surprisingly enough, it was a pretty tame crowd. Make no mistake, an inordinate amount of weed was being smoked, but all in all, a pretty tame crowd.

Anyway, they were incredible. They're definitely not one of those bands that you hear live and realize that they're all a studio creation. Thom's voice was dead on, and it's amazing when you see all of the things they do to make the sounds that come out of their instruments. They played everything from In Rainbows, quite a bit from Kid A, some Thief and two songs from The Bends, but only Lucky from OK Computer. I always think it's interesting to see what songs the band picks from their albums because I think it kind of shows what songs they like. The light show was really cool too. All in all my favorites were Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Reckoner, National Anthem, and Planet Telex. Here's the set list:

15 Step,
Bodysnatchers
Lucky
Morning Bell
Nude, Pyramid Song
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
The Gloaming
National Anthem
Faust Arp
Videotape
Optimistic
Where I End and You Begin
Reckoner
Everything in Its Right Place
All I Need
There There

Encore 1:
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
House of Cards
Climbing Up The Walls
Planet Telex
Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Encore 2:
You And Whose Army?
Idioteque

So here is one of the videos I shot. They aren't that great, but you get the idea. We really weren't as far from the stage as the video looks! Our camera also cuts out after 3 minutes, and the memory card filled up pretty quick. If you want to see some better one take a look at these.




Also, apparently Radiohead soundchecked a cover of Portishead's new song The Rip, but they didn't play it at the show. They've soundchecked it one other time, so maybe they'll be playing it later in the tour. Radiohead covering Portishead--it really doesn't get any better than that!