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Radiohead kick off 2008 world tour

Radiohead play 93 Feet East

Radiohead play 93 Feet East

Band get things started with Florida gig

Radiohead kicked off their 2008 world tour at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida last night (May 5).

The band are playing a string of US dates before heading to Europe this summer.

According to Ateaseweb.com, following an hour-long performance by support band Liars, the group took to the stage draped with two Tibetan flags, to play a 24-song set, featuring two encores and saw frontman Thom Yorke joking about the amount of plastic surgery cases he saw while in Miami ahead of the gigs.

"We spent three days at Miami Beach. Fucking hell! What’s going on there?" he asked. "Some kind of reconstruction! for once I was proud to white, pale and English."

The band played almost all of new album 'In Rainbows', bizarrely omitting the record's first single 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place'.

There were also rare live outings for the likes of 'Optimistic' (from 2000's 'Kid A') and 'Bulletproof (I Wish I Was)' from 1995's 'The Bends'.

Radiohead played:

'All I Need'
'Bodysnatchers'
'There There'
'Reckoner'
'The Gloaming'
'Morning Bell'
'Nude'
'How To Disappear Completely'
'15 Step'
'Arpeggi'
'Idioteque'
'Bulletproof (I Wish I Was)'
'Where I End And You Begin'
'Airbag'
'Everything In Its Right Place'
'The National Anthem'
'Videotape'
'Optimistic'
'Just'
'Faust Arp'
'Exit Music (For A Film)'
'Bangers And Mash'
'House Of Cards'
'Street Spirit (Fade Out)'


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dacarch 

May 6, 2008

light-headed... radiohead aftermath. The boys form Oxford put on an amazing show last night, with wonderful human mistakes, let down by an audience that could not grasp their clap beat, too complicated for the abundant unsophisticated ear. Thom yelling help! to his mates when expected chorus feedback failed to come from a hyptnotized crowd (myself included).The two solid hour 24 song set flew by, leaving me wanting more, much more, and knowing that it was all I would get.

sawgrass67 

May 6, 2008

the concert was very mellow having started out with all i need, but was very good. this show you really needed to be holding onto your loved one while watching - it was a lot more mellow and romantic of a show than previous. there were a few mistakes/miscues i'm not used to seeing radiohead do, but i think i liked it more because of them. highlights: house of cards, airbag, 15step, exit music, how to disappear, bangers and mashonly thing missing was paranoid android, which they should have done if only to raise the energy of the show. bangers and mash was excellent though.

mul1989 

May 6, 2008

Roll on Manchester!24 song set sounds epic!

gerwin 

May 6, 2008

How can they not play Creep ?

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