Best. Show. Ever.
Despite the typically bleak, rainy and shite Glasgow weather (and me forgetting my jacket and wearing my converse, pretty much the worst wet-weather shoes ever), this could not have been a better show. It was always going to be awesome, since Radiohead are one of my all time favourite bands and I’ve wanted to see them live since I was about 15, but they totally blew my expectations away.
And the set list was awesome (see below). A fantastic mix that included pretty much everything off In Rainbows (and even one off the second CD) and a bunch of my favourites from OK Computer, Kid A, Bends and Amnesiac. They also managed to get most of In Radinbows out of the way by the end of the set, leaving the steamy heaving crowd to lap up two encores full of classics (including Paranoid Android, Karma Police, 2+2=5 and Idioteque). Although I have to admit it was a little cheezy starting the show with track one off the new album. But that’s just me being a geek.
Set list: (courtesy of Ateaseweb)
01 15 Step
02 Airbag
03 There There
04 All I Need
05 Nude
06 Arpeggi/Weird Fishes
07 The Gloaming
08 The National Anthem with Hunting Bears outro
09 Faust Arp
10 No Surprises (Thom: “There was a guy showing me his nipples in that one”)
11 Jigsaw Falling Into Place
12 Reckoner
13 Just
14 Bangers and Mash
15 Everything In Its Right Place
16 Fake Plastic Trees
17 Bodysnatchers
Encore 1
18 Videotape
19 Paranoid Android
20 Myxomatosis
21 Optimistic
22 Karma Police
Encore 2
23 Like Spinning Plates
24 2 + 2 = 5
25 Idioteque
And the stage was very…well…Radiohead. Instead of the band being lost in a big empty black square, they had a huge 3D matrix of dangly light things which were extremely trippy but way cool. It wasn’t so over the top that it distracted attention from the band, and lighting design complemented each song beautifully.
Great gig.
