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Perhaps this is why Radiohead tend to favour the morose
Radiohead - and Thom Yorke in particular - are hardly known for being rays of sunshine. Which perhaps explains why, when Yorke flashed a rare smile at his Amsterdam gig this weekend, it was actually quite terrifying.
During the piano intro to ‘The Daily Mail’, Yorke turned to the crowd and held a toothy grin for several seconds. We’re pleased he was feeling the moment, but the grin will stay with us forever more. Thanks Mashable.
As for the setlist - Radiohead have played two shows so far on their tour, and the two setlists have differed completely. The first night at Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall saw them play the following songs.
I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to Be Free (Billy Taylor song) (Nina Simone version)
Burn the Witch (extended intro; live debut)
Daydreaming (live debut)
Decks Dark (live debut)
Desert Island Disk (Thom Yorke on acoustic guitar;… more )
Ful Stop
Morning Mr. Magpie
There There
The Daily Mail (Thom Yorke on piano)
My Iron Lung (first since 2009)
Videotape (Thom Yorke on piano)
Identikit
The Numbers (extended intro; Thom on… more )
The Gloaming
Lotus Flower
Everything in Its Right Place (Thom on synthesizer)
Idioteque
Bodysnatchers
Encore:
Bloom
Present Tense (live debut by Radiohead)
Paranoid Android
Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief (live debut)
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Encore 2:
You and Whose Army?
Reckoner
Glisten (Semya song)
…while their show at the same venue the following night saw them change things up completely to the setlist below.
Burn the Witch
Daydreaming
Decks Dark
Desert Island Disk
Ful Stop
Lucky (tour debut)
There There
Lotus Flower
All I Need (tour debut)
Talk Show Host (tour debut)
Identikit
The Numbers
Present Tense
Separator (tour debut)
Nude (tour debut)
The National Anthem (with 'Hunting Bears' outro; tour debut)
Everything in Its Right Place
Encore:
Give Up the Ghost (tour debut; followed by 'Creep' tease)
How to Disappear Completely (tour debut)
Karma Police (tour debut)
Bloom
Street Spirit (Fade Out) (tour debut)
Encore 2:
Bodysnatchers ('Exit Music (for a Film)' was… more )
Idioteque
Radiohead's upcoming headline tour dates are below, with tickets available here.
MAY 20 AMSTERDAM, HEINEKEN MUSIC HALL
MAY 21 AMSTERDAM, HEINEKEN MUSIC HALL
MAY 23 PARIS, LE ZENITH
MAY 24 PARIS, LE ZENITH
MAY 26 LONDON, ROUNDHOUSE
MAY 27 LONDON, ROUNDHOUSE
MAY 28 LONDON, ROUNDHOUSE
JULY 26 NEW YORK, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
JULY 27 NEW YORK, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
AUGUST 4 LOS ANGELES SHRINE AUDITORIUM
AUGUST 8 LOS ANGELES SHRINE AUDITORIUM
OCTOBER 3 MEXICO CITY PALACIO DE LOS DEPORTES
OCTOBER 4 MEXICO CITY PALACIO DE LOS DEPORTES
Meanwhile, the band will also be playing the following festivals:
JUNE 3 PRIMAVERA SOUND, BARCELONA, SPAIN - tickets available here
JUNE 17 SECRET SOLSTICE, REYJKAVIK, ICELAND - tickets available here
JULY 2 OPENAIR ST GALLEN, SWITZERLAND - tickets available here
JULY 8 NOS ALIVE FESTIVAL, LISBON, PORTUGAL - tickets available here
JULY 29-31 OSHEAGA MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL, MONTREAL, CANADA - tickets available here
AUGUST 20 -21 SUMMERSONIC FESTIVAL, OSAKA, JAPAN - tickets available here
SEP 11 LOLLAPALOOZA FESTIVAL, BERLIN, GERMANY - tickets available here
The Wall Street Journal: "It makes the experimental accessible while still challenging, through the breadth and depth of its expression, the definition of what constitutes popular music in 2016.”
Rolling Stone: "Radiohead's least rock-oriented album in the 21st century doubles as its most gorgeous and desolate album to date.”
The Sydney Morning Herald: "A Moon Shaped Pool, as with its eight predecessors, is not a bundle of laughs. It doesn't want you to throw open the windows and sing, or claim your place in the world because dammit you deserve it. This is not about self-help or coming to some understanding.”
The Telegraph: “A Moon Shaped Pool turns out to be Radiohead's most melodically accessible collection, almost meditative in its ethereal mid-tempo loveliness, yet shot through with the kind of edgy details that never quite let a listener relax. It is chill-out music to put your nerves on edge.”
Gigwise: "For a band who have already come to both defy and define genre at every turn, having torn up the map of where music should lead them, Radiohead now take a turn down a previously untrodden, sumptuous garden path.”
The New York Times: "The future is dire, the past a blur and the present heartbroken yet hinting at possibilities on Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool,” its ninth studio album and perhaps its darkest statement — though the one with the band’s most pastoral surface.”
The Guardian: "You’d hesitate to call it more poppy – this is still an album on which standard verse-chorus structures are very much subject to subsidence, and on which the instruments buried deep in the mix frequently seem to be playing an entirely different song to those in the foreground – but it’s certainly sharper and more focused.”
Pitchfork: "So what is new on A Moon Shaped Pool, Radiohead’s first studio album since 2011’s The King of Limbs? Very little, which to me is what immediately makes it so great.”
NME: “[The album] features a beautiful combo of strings, piano, electronic experiments, Jonny Greenwood's spidery guitar lines and Yorke's exquisite-as-ever lyrics."
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