Radiohead returned to the stage after a seven-year hiatus with an electrifying Madrid live performance.
Radiohead have made their long-awaited dwell return
The Creep rockers kicked off their long-awaited European tour with a 25-song set at Madrid’s Movistar Area. The efficiency marked the band’s first look collectively since wrapping their A Moon Formed Pool tour in 2018.
The Oxford quintet – Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Colin Greenwood, and Philip Selway – carried out within the spherical on a round stage surrounded by LED partitions, delivering a set full of fan favourites, deep cuts, and long-absent tracks. They opened with Let Down, which has seen a resurgence in recognition on-line, and shocked followers with Sit Down. Stand Up. from 2003’s Hail to the Thief, performed dwell for the primary time in 21 years.
The setlist drew closely from OK Laptop and Hail to the Thief, with six songs from every album. Subterranean Homesick Alien made its return after an eight-year absence.
The comeback follows months of hypothesis after the group introduced a restricted run of reveals throughout Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen, and Berlin. Talking forward of the tour, drummer Philip Selway stated the band had reunited for rehearsals “only for the hell of it,” and rediscovered a shared musical identification that impressed them to return to the stage.
Followers on the Madrid opener have been handled to a dynamic and unpredictable efficiency, with the band reportedly rehearsing over 65 songs and adopting a “busking method” to the setlist every night time.
The reunion comes after a interval of solo exercise for all 5 members, together with Yorke and Greenwood’s work with The Smile, Selway’s solo releases, and Colin Greenwood’s images e book.
Radiohead shall be again on stage on the Movistar Area on November 5, 7, and eight.
From Spain, they journey to Bologna, Italy, with 4 nights scheduled in every metropolis via November and December.
Radiohead’s Madrid live performance setlist:
Let Down
2 + 2 = 5
Sit Down. Stand Up.
Bloom
Fortunate
Ful Cease
The Gloaming
Myxomatosis
No Surprises
Videotape
Bizarre Fishes/Arpeggi
Every little thing in Its Proper Place
15 Step
The Nationwide Anthem
Daydreaming
A Wolf on the Door
Bodysnatchers
Idioteque
Encore:
Pretend Plastic Timber
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Paranoid Android
Tips on how to Disappear Utterly
You and Whose Military?
There There