1994-09-30, Sheffield University, Sheffield, England

## Tracklist

1. Bones
2. You
3. Prove Yourself
4. Just
5. Banana Co.
6. Ripcord
7. Permanent Daylight
8. Creep
9. My Iron Lung
10. Vegetable
11. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
12. Killer Cars
13. Pop Is Dead
14. Stop Whispering
15. Anyone Can Play Guitar
16. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
17. Lurgee
18. The Bends
19. Thinking About You
20. Inside My Head

## Comments

* With this show, we enter a new and interesting part of 1994 for Radiohead - their first headlining British tour since early 1993! This recording is of the fourth show on the tour (and the last of four consecutive nights of performances at that!) and it's a classic early AUD - the sound quality does the job, but it's still runs quiet and features plenty of audience chatter.
* If you're a setlist nerd like me, this show (and its successor) is chock full of goodies. It's their longest recorded show up to that point, the band finally being able to run amok with their sets without the constraints of being a support act or playing at a festival. The group had also released the My Iron Lung EP just four days prior to this show, and three of its songs make an appearance here! It's a fascinating and pretty comprehensive listen.
* Perhaps most immediately noticeable here is the first recorded performance of the dreamy, lilting My Iron Lung EP deep cut, Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong! For a song that sounds so studio-polished on the EP, it translates to live performance with remarkable precision and a velvety smoothness that fans of this song will really relish. It may even convert non-believers (of which I have been one for a long time - and even I can't argue that this rules.)
* Also of note is the long-awaited return of Permanent Daylight, which surfaced in 1993 as an instrumental rock-out but is complete here with vocals and a far more confident arrangement. It was never really destined to be a transcendent live track, but it's fascinating to hear all the same.
* It would also be remiss not to mention the EXTREMELY rare full band Killer Cars, one of only two performances ever before the band decided (perhaps rightly) that the song worked better acoustically. It's *very* different to the Royal Berks version - it no longer has an acoustic guitar intro, for instance - and it's actually almost morbidly interesting, because it's a bit of a mess. Ed has extremely pronounced backing vocals, Thom just yells the lyrics as loud as he can, and Phil actually does some of the fastest fills you'll ever hear him play. The whole thing feels truly bizarre, almost 'uncanny valley'-esque - like Radiohead if they were from a parallel timeline, or from Mars.
* Other than the show's obvious big-ticket items, strong performances here include Just and Thinking About You, the latter being its first recorded performance at a show in 1994 (aside from the version recorded backstage in July.) It's very, very nice, too - it has a grand, rousing, almost epic quality to it, which contrasts very nicely with the otherwise downcast nature of the song.
* You can *juuuust* begin to hear the band starting to slow down Stop Whispering on this recording to the mellow dirge that it would become later. Whether you like that or not, you can hear the beginnings of the change here.
* As the band were finally getting to be headliners again in their home turf, the crowd here seem to know and sing along to just about every song, especially the older ones. It also leads to another truly bizarre moment from a truly bizarre show - this crowd is so full of hardcore fans that they even anticipate Thom's 'fuck you' in Stop Whispering, even though it wasn't on the studio release! Pretty damn impressive.
* It's impossible to overstate how much Bones kicks ass as an opener; it might even suit that position better than You does (it *certainly* fits better than The Bends ever did.)