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2010 live

2010 was a quiet year on the Radiohead-specific front, with the band generally hard at work on writing and performing *The King of Limbs*. The only full-band performance came in January, where the band played a quickly-organised benefit show to raise funds on behalf of Oxfam to benefit Haiti.

It was a little busier for solo projects, though. Thom's second band, Atoms for Peace, played a brief US tour culminating in a performance at the Coachella festival, as well as a one-off festival show in Japan. Thom himself made three solo appearances (one with Jonny joining him for half the set) to test new Radiohead material, and Phil made two tours of Europe to support his solo album *Familial*.

## Thom solo

 2010-06-25\*
 2010-08-26 | The Big Chill Festival

\*Although billed as a solo performance by Thom, he was accompanied by Jonny for the latter half of the set.
1996-04-10 WHFS 99.1 'Just Passin' Thru' session

## Tracklist

1. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
2. Lucky
3. High and Dry
4. Motion Picture Soundtrack
5. Fake Plastic Trees

## Comments

* A solo acoustic broadcast by Thom.
* 'Motion Picture Soundtrack' was debuted here, in its early version with three verses and two choruses. In 2019, this performance was officially released as part of MiniDiscs (Hacked).
1992 live

This was the year when Radiohead started properly touring. Now signed on to EMI, and with the Drill EP and newly-released single Creep out there later in the year, the group finally found themselves getting a slow but solid footing in England. Although every single one of their gigs in 1992 was on home turf, they played a *lot* of them! citizeninsane.net lists an eye-watering 87 known shows that year, and for a band that hadn't even released an album or had a hit yet, that's pretty big.

For this reason, 1992 is also the first year that we have multiple recordings from. The bulk of them are from later in the year, and surprisingly, a few are in soundboard quality. Setlists are mostly made up of Pablo Honey material, and you can hear the band working through the arrangements. The songs are still new to them, and they're all approached with a youthful energy that wouldn't take long to fade.

## 3 recommended recordings from 1992

* 1992-06-13 BBC Radio 1 'Evening Session' - BBC session with brilliant sound quality and the definitive performances of two songs that were almost never played.
* 1992-11-09, Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, England - a very listenable AUD with probably the best all-round performance of the year.
* 1992-11-11, Huddersfield University, Huddersfield, England - a fan favourite soundboard recording of a solid show.
1992-11-14, University of Essex, Colchester, England

## Tracklist

1. Anyone Can Play Guitar (cuts in)
2. Prove Yourself
3. You
4. Creep
5. How Do You?
6. Million Dollar Question
7. Faithless the Wonder Boy
8. Ripcord
9. Blow Out

## Comments

* Another excellent SBD recording. This, and the fact that Anyone Can Play Guitar cuts in *again,* leads one to believe that these were both recorded for radio broadcasts.
* Same setlist as the previous night, but the previous night is far better.
* Phil's drumming is really rough on Anyone Can Play Guitar, and towards the end there's a strange echo effect on his snare. It sounds like someone is messing with the snare's reverb levels as well, through the entire performance.
* Thom, at the end of Anyone Can Play Guitar: "If you *know*, who the guy *was*, that threw that glass of drink onto the *stage*, kick his face *in.*"
Kid A blips

In lieau of music videos, Kid A was promoted with a series of short films known as **blips**The films were made by the production company Shynola Films with Stanley and the band. One clip (4:25 in the video below) features an alternative version of the track Kid A, with a different keyboard and vocal sound. In 2016, Radiohead did a similar thing with the Moon Shaped Pool vignettes.

This YouTube video compiles many of the blips:

A few days after the Kid A 20th anniversary, Shynola posted on their Instagram account:

Hard to believe this was twenty years ago. And gratifying that ‘Kid A’ is being rightly recognised as the brilliant piece of work that it is.
Also hard to believe that we were trusted to work on this. We were just four guys living in a flat in Muswell Hill. All of our computers were hand built, in our bedrooms and connected by a network which ran through the hallway.
I remember specifically that a demo for the record was delivered to said flat on an audio cassette, in a briefcase chained to a courier. I also remember gathering around Chris’s four track machine to listen to it, in astonishment.
Stanley Donwood was still working on the artwork and would regularly feed us new bits. One time he came over to our flat and we drank cheap booze into the wee hours until he nodded off on my bed.
There was no brief to speak of. We were allowed to pick any bit of any song and any bit of artwork and just run with it. UNHEARD OF.
Give us some inspiration and some freedom and we will return with creativity. We ended up making twenty odd of these mini films. Best job we ever had.
This was all pre-instagram and the like and predated the idea of disruptive advertising. We were being unorthodox and anarchic - the idea was to not do what everyone else was doing.
Now that every corporation is doing this, and the content is desperate drivel, online marketing is just more grit in your eye.
Happy Anniversary Kid A. It was an honour to be a part of it - such a beautiful record that I never tire of.
Lozenge of Love

## Description

Lozenge of Love is an obscure part of the My Iron Lung EP that has unfortunately been overlooked for much of the band's career. Featuring just Thom and Jonny, it is a labyrinthine, constantly shifting acoustic guitar-driven workout. Despite the delicate instrumentation, there is a real dark edge to this song, and the restlessly plucky guitars work wonders at unsettling the listener and creating a mood which is supported by the *very* dark lyrics. Lozenge of Love does what it sets out to do excellently.

## Live history

Lozenge of Love was only performed live 6 times (that we know of), and of those performances, just 4 were recorded for posterity. It received one recorded outing in 1993, one in 1994 and then two in 1995 before being condemned to obscurity forever. Live renditions tended to stay close to the studio version, which isn't a bad thing at all - the studio version is awesome!

### 1993

The one 1993 performance of Lozenge of Love comes from 1993-06-15, FNAC Auditorium, Nancy, France, a well-recorded rendition with delicate Thom vocals and some intricate guitar work, especially towards the end of the song. Keep a look out for how different these lyrics are to the final version!

### 1994

Although it saw release on the My Iron Lung EP in 1994, it was only performed at one show that year - 1994-12-17, Deck The Hall Ball, Seattle, WA, USA. Again a Thom and Jonny rendition, it's more or less the same as the previous take, performance-wise, except that the sound quality isn't quite as good.

### 1995

Lozenge of Love saw its final two live outings in 1995, before the song was condemned to obscurity forever. The first performance, 1995-02-16, The Eve's Club, London, England, isn't really anything to write home about, but the second performance, 1995-03-24, The Forum, London, England, very much is - a surprise third encore in front of a hushed crowd, Thom's voice sounds absolutely gorgeous over the guitar parts (which are far lower in the mix than usual.) It lends the song a mysterious, plaintive charm. Perhaps doesn't top the studio version, but comes damn close.

## List of recordings

See Lozenge of Love/Recordings for full list.
Yes I Am

## Description

Yes I Am is a typical early-90s Radiohead song, albeit with a few twists. Starting off quietly and plaintively, it quickly becomes guitar-driven and features plenty of Jonny guitar heroics. By the end, all three guitarists are going at it for the final breakdown. Predictably, this song has been hugely overshadowed by the song on the a-side over the years.

## Live history

It would be somewhat misleading to say that Yes I Am was played between 1993 and 1995. While it received several performances in the year of its release, it was only played twice in 1994 and then once in 1995! Despite its relative scarcity, Yes I Am was often an interesting part of the set and a chance for the guitarists to let loose.

### 1993

From June onwards, Yes I Am saw semi-regular performances in 1993. It frequently was found early in the set, either before or just after Creep. There are some very strong performances of this song from 1993. Notable and/or recommended performances include:

* 1993-06-25 Westwood One 'On The Edge' session - its first-ever performance, a delightful acoustic take with some very strong guitar playing from Thom and Jonny.
* 1993-09-03, Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland - one of two definitive full band versions of Yes I Am. This one has the edge due to the soundboard recording.
* 1993-10-15, Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA - a brilliant AUD renders a particularly vicious showing excellently.

### 1994

The last-ever full band performance of Yes I Am appears on 1994-06-09, Club Citta, Tokyo, Japan in rather shoddy video perform. Completionists will no doubt seek it out for that reason, but the performance itself is nothing to write home about - solid, but not as good as the 1993 ones.
Pop Is Dead/Recordings

All live recordings of Pop Is Dead.

## Soundboard recordings

* 1993-02-11 Signal Radio session
* 1993-02-23 Black Session
* 1993-04-02, Roxanne, Tel Aviv, Israel
* 1993-05-05, Bevrijdingspop Festival, Haarlem, Netherlands
* 1993-06-04, Magasinet, Göteborg, Sweden
* 1993-06-30, The Metro, Chicago, IL, USA
* 1993-07-12, The Whiskey A Go-Go, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* 1993-09-03, Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland
* 1993-11-20, Vernier-sur-Rock, Geneva, Switzerland
* 1994-05-20, Festival Balélec, Lausanne, Switzerland
* 1994-05-27, The Astoria, London, UK
* 1994-06-26, Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England
* 1994-07-02, Rosklide Festival, Rosklide, Denmark
* 1994-08-27, Reading Festival, Reading, UK

## Audience recordings

* 1993-02-18, Joiner's Arms, Southampton, England

* 1993-05-04, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Scotland
* 1993-06-03, Barbue, Copenhagen, Denmark
* 1993-06-05, Bergslagsrocken Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
* 1993-06-12, Beeckestijnpop Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* 1993-06-15, Cine 3000, Nancy, France
* 1993-06-20, Passage du Nord, Paris, France
* 1993-07-13, The Palladium, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* 1993-07-16, World Beat Center, San Diego, CA, USA
* 1993-08-15, Markt Rock Festival, Leuven, Belgium
* 1993-08-21, Waterpop Festival, Wateringen, Netherlands
* 1993-08-28, The Venue, Oxford, England
* 1993-09-01, The Garage, London, England
* 1993-09-23, Cameo Theatre, Miami, FL, USA
* 1993-10-06, Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI, USA
* 1993-10-08, Avalon Ballroom, Boston, MA, USA
* 1993-10-15, Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA
* 1993-10-22, Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* 1993-11-01, RPM Club, Toronto, Canada
* 1993-11-11, Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
* 1993-11-12, Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany
* 1993-11-23, Casino de Paris, Paris, France
* 1993-11-25, Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain
* 1993-11-27, Pavilhão Os Belenenses, Lisbon, Portugal
* 1993-12-09, Brixton Academy, London, England
* 1993-12-11, Guildhall, Portsmouth, England
* 1994-06-04, Shibuya Club Quatro, Tokyo, Japan
* 1994-09-30, Sheffield University, Sheffield, England
* 1994-10-06, Exeter University, Exeter, England
* 1994-10-08, Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England
My Iron Lung

## Description

My Iron Lung is arguably the exact moment where Radiohead started to evolve into the band that we know and love today. Initially released as the follow-up single to Creep in 1994, the song didn't attract the widespread commercial success that they were hoping for, and there's good reason for it: this song is incredible, and it's also really, really bizarre. The cryptic, deeply ironic verses and instrumental refrains crash into one of the most iconic sections of any Radiohead song, the ridiculously volatile breakdown with some of the strangest Thom lyrics yet ('my uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon'?) Although not beloved at the time, this song has gained copious amounts of respect in retrospect. It's outstanding.

## Live history

Predictably, My Iron Lung has been played in every touring year since 1994 except for 2012. It remains one of the biggest live staples from The Bends, and for good reason; although it can be occasionally shaky (especially post-2000), its dominant renditions rank up there with some of the best individual Radiohead live performances. There is a *lot* of quality in this particular wheelhouse!

### 1994

As with most of The Bends, My Iron Lung was debuted in 1994. The song gained particular significance later in the year, as it was recorded and released on the EP of the same name in September (to coincide with a headlining UK tour.) Generally, the earlier the performance of My Iron Lung, the better the quality, and 1994 is no exception at all - the song *owned* live during this year, especially when Thom would get into it more than just about any other song on the setlist. Notable and/or recommended performances include:

* 1994-02-21, Royal Berks Social Club, Reading, UK - the live debut with some very interesting early lyrics.
* 1994-05-20, Festival Balélec, Lausanne, Switzerland - a recently discovered SBD recording of an all-time great performance, in which the clear highlight is the incredible guitar work from all three guitarists. Nothing short of stunning.
* 1994-05-27, The Astoria, London, UK - they used this performance for the final album version, which should tell you all you need to know! Long-time fans of this song will be interested to hear the original vocal, which was the only aspect of the performance that was re-recorded in the studio.
* 1994-07-02, Rosklide Festival, Rosklide, Denmark - more wailing guitar craziness from Jonny and Ed on another fantastic soundboard recording.
* 1994-12-13, WDRE Christmas Show, New York, NY, USA - two great Thom and Jonny versions of this song are available from December, but if you can only pick one, go for 1994-12-13 - it's technically perfect.

## List of recordings

See My Iron Lung/Recordings for full list.
1993-06-12, Beeckestijnpop Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands

## Tracklist

1. You
2. Prove Yourself
3. The Bends
4. Million Dollar Question
5. Vegetable
6. Creep
7. Lurgee
8. Ripcord
9. How Do You?
10. Faithless the Wonder Boy
11. Banana Co.
12. Anyone Can Play Guitar
13. Pop Is Dead

## Comments

* A truly outstanding AUD recording, which is a real rarity for a pre-1997 show. The tape has a dynamic, transparent sound to rival some SBDs out there. There are a few loud glitches in You but otherwise it sounds great.
* One can guess why Million Dollar Question was on the way out by now - it's super intensive on Phil, who at this early stage of his career is clearly straining to nail the fast fills.
* This is the only time I've seen Ed mess up the opening guitar in Creep.
* I'm always partial to performances of Faithless, I admit, and this here is a very good one.
* Knockout rendition of Anyone Can Play Guitar, with a slightly faster tempo than usual.
* The second instance of the "one final line of coke for Whitney Houston" line in Pop Is Dead. Not great taste if I'm honest, Thom.
1993-06-30, The Metro, Chicago, IL, USA

## Tracklist

1. You
2. Prove Yourself
3. The Bends
4. Vegetable
5. Creep
6. Lurgee
7. Ripcord
8. Faithless the Wonder Boy
9. How Do You?
10. Stop Whispering
11. Inside My Head
12. Anyone Can Play Guitar
13. Pop Is Dead
14. Killer Cars
15. Banana Co.
16. Million Dollar Question
17. Blow Out

## Comments

* An excellent audio *and* video source is available for this show, both possibly recorded by Chicago music show JBTV. The video source is missing Lurgee and the whole encore, whereas the audio source has the whole show. Then again, the video source has a great interview that's worth watching. The audio quality is excellent across the board.
* This is one of the more famous shows from 1993, and the first recording of (pretty much) a full Radiohead show. This gig was deemed as so good that EMI released Killer Cars, You, Vegetable and Inside My Head from this recording as official live versions.
* The band seems to be having plenty of fun at this gig, an impression that you don't get much of on the PH tour. Thom even calls the audience the best they'd ever had. Pretty much every performance is technically perfect, including Inside My Head which frequently had problems.
* Clothes-wise, Thom and Jonny are rocking the striped shirt. Oh, and Ed fans really get their money's worth in early '93.
* The singer asks for more screaming in Vegetable, without a hint of irony. Oh Thom, you were so innocent back then.
* How Do You? is absolutely MAD on film; it's also the song's last recorded performance, and what a way to go out.
* Check out Ed's insane guitar effects during Stop Whispering.
* Is this the definitive Inside My Head, complete with Thom singing along with Jonny's guitar solo? You be the judge.
* Don't worry, audience - if Thom beckoned, I'd touch his hair as well.
1993-02-18, Joiner's Arms, Southampton, England

## Tracklist

1. The Bends (cuts in slightly)
2. Prove Yourself
3. You (small cut)
4. Vegetable
5. Creep
6. Ripcord
7. Lurgee
8. Anyone Can Play Guitar
9. Pop Is Dead
10. Blow Out
11. How Do You?

## Comments

* Good, if not ideal, sound quality. The first few seconds of The Bends are cut out and a little bit of You is missing.
* This gig is four days prior to the release of their debut, Pablo Honey. As a result, this recording has great atmosphere. You can hear how excited the band is, both in the performances and Thom's crowd interaction. Referring to Pablo Honey, Thom says it's "a very good first album too, I say."
* This performance is also notable as the recorded full band debut of The Bends, Pop Is Dead and Vegetable. The Bends would appear two years later on the album of the same name. It remained pretty much unchanged from this point until the album's release.
* Thom has a great back-and-forth with a heckler throughout the entire performance, and there's too way too much gold to fit here.
* Vegetable is introduced as "a song about life without pickled eggs."
* "This is called Creep and it wasn't a hit," referring to the failure of the initial Creep EP release. Come the end of the year, Thom would be eating his words.
* Thom introduces How Do You? by saying that it was written about controversial mining magnate Robert Maxwell.
1994-10-20, La Panza, Ojo de Agua, Mexico

## Tracklist

1. Bones (small cuts in middle)
2. You
3. Prove Yourself
4. Ripcord
5. Banana Co.
6. Vegetable
7. The Bends
8. Just
9. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
10. Creep

## Comments

* Another strange document from Radiohead's long-forgotten Mexico tour. This gig was apparently broadcast by Mexican radio sometime in the 2000s, but only the first ten songs are widely available. Although the original recording was clearly a soundboard, it seems to have lost a lot of its clarity upon broadcast. In addition, a pro-shot clip of Creep exists from this show, also presumably for local TV. It's not particularly well-edited or defined, but the audio is fine.
* The most interesting part of this show is the audience consistently - and annoyingly - requesting Creep in between every song. In response to the crowd chanting the title after Ripcord, Thom deadpans an almost ominous 'careful'; likewise, when it starts again after Banana Co., Thom just says 'yeah yeah yeah.' It's not even 1995, and fatigue with the song has already well and truly set in.
* Another big highlight in this recording is during The Bends, when instead of singing the last 'lying in the bar' verse, Thom continues singing the sparkling high note from 'we don't have any real frieeeeeeeeeends' throughout the entire verse, which is a bizarre, serendipitous and awesome change. Creep has a good contender for 'live song with longest sustained Thom note' now.
Lurgee

## Description

Lurgee is a perennial fan favourite that rises above a lot of the more rote material on Pablo Honey. It is exceedingly melancholic, but with surprisingly optimistic lyrics that bring a great degree of hope to the song. Likewise, the beautiful guitar interplay towards the end is reminiscent of the material that would eventually end up on albums like OK Computer. It is easy to see why this song has stood the test of time.

## Live history

Another rare Pablo Honey-era song to see play outside of the 1990s, Lurgee was performed to varying degrees up to 2003. Played as a semi-regular song in 1993 and 1994, it was then dropped for much of 1995 and 1996 only to return to frequent rotation in 1997 and 1998. Between 2000-2003, it was still occasionally played, but never thereafter (despite rumours of the band looking to reintroduce it to the set.)

### 1992

There is precisely one recorded performance of Lurgee from 1992, and it's from a strong show - 1992-11-09, Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, England. It's possible that it was played more that year and no recordings exist of it. This one will do; it's a guitar-heavy, youthful take.

### 1993

Lurgee was played with far more regularity in 1993. It was only dropped for an extended period of time on some legs of the James tour thanks to shorter setlists. Performances of the song from 1993 are indeed very beautiful, though they arguably would get even better later in the band's career. Notable and/or recommended performances include:

* 1993-05-05, Bevrijdingspop Festival, Haarlem, Netherlands - a crushing version from a great show in soundboard quality.
* 1993-06-15, Cine 3000, Nancy, France - a very silky performance. Jonny does some great guitar work towards the end as well that makes it very much worth hearing.
* 1993-11-12, Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany - forgive the sound quality because the rendition is very strong - Thom's vocals are divine.

### 1994

For a song of which the band seemed to be very fond, Lurgee was played very few times in 1994. It only shows up on two recordings in 1994 - 1994-06-04, Shibuya Club Quatro, Tokyo, Japan as a by-request second encore, and 1994-09-30, Sheffield University, Sheffield, England as a late-set feature. Neither performance is particularly essential.
1993-06-15, Cine 3000, Nancy, France

## Tracklist

1. You
2. Prove Yourself
3. The Bends
4. Vegetable
5. Creep
6. Lurgee
7. Ripcord
8. How Do You?
9. Banana Co.
10. Faithless the Wonder Boy
11. Inside My Head
12. Permanent Daylight
13. Anyone Can Play Guitar
14. Pop Is Dead
15. Killer Cars
16. Million Dollar Question
17. Blow Out
18. Thinking About You

## Comments

* Hot off the heels of the outstanding Beeckestijnpop Festival recording comes another great AUD from the 1993 Europe tour. One of the two available sources is louder but a little rough around the edges; the other plays quieter but sounds much more pleasant. Both contain a small glitch in Vegetable
* An all-round great show with a handful of rare performances and a fantastic, enthusiastic audience. The crowd's enthusiasm seems to pass on to the band in turn.
* Poor Thom - he announces Vegetable in place of what I'm assuming should have been Million Dollar Question and then apologises profusely to Jonny.
* You can tell that Thom is already starting to get bored of Creep. With each night he messes with his vocal performance a little more.
* Sweeping rendition of Lurgee, with Jonny even adding a little bluesy guitar part near the end.
* A silky smooth Inside My Head makes an appearance here, one of the best.
* "One final line of coke for JANET JACKSOONNN!"
* With a hearty dose of sarcasm, Thom introduces Killer Cars as a "very happy song".
1994-05-22, Rock Am Ring Festival, Nürburgring, Germany

## Tracklist

1. You
2. Bones
3. Ripcord
4. Black Star
5. Creep
6. The Bends
7. My Iron Lung
8. Just
9. Anyone Can Play Guitar
10. Blow Out

## Comments

* Radiohead, coming to you live from the bottom of the ocean! Yeah, the audio quality - at least for the first half of the gig - is pretty much unlistenable; it's probably the quietest-playing tape in existence, with the instruments sounding like they're being played on Mars instead of at a festival in Germany. Only gains half a star because the sound quality improves a good amount during The Bends, but by then it's sort of too late.
* As a result, it's hard to recommend this show to anyone but the most hardcore Radiohead fan (especially given the truncated setlist.) The only song here that might be worth getting is Blow Out on account of the passable sound quality and the *lightning*-fast guitar work by Jonny in the final breakdown. He's doing some serious riffage here!
* Before Creep, Thom claims that "This is a song about drunken idiot".
1992-11-18, The Warehouse, Plymouth, England

## Tracklist

1. Creep
2. How Do You?

## Comments

* This is a recording of just two songs from the Plymouth gig in 1992. It's a shame we don't have the full recording, as the setlist also contained an early The Bends, Pop Is Dead and a *second* performance of Creep, a stunt they later pulled at a gig in Israel.
* The sound is pretty poor - not entirely unlistenable, but very muddy, unclear and distorted. It also loses points for the limited tracklist, and the performances are pretty standard. Not recommended for the casual fan.
Last Wolves Wiki

## Last Wolves

Imagine, you are alone. On the small Island in nowhere. With limited resources, just with some things in your pocket. Nowhere. Absolutely Nowhere. Just you and mother nature. Your only goal is to escape this island and continue living your life. That's what is Last Wolves about.

"*But wait. What's this guy on the other side of island doing? Maybe I'm not that alone as I expected. Let's stalk him to see, what things he have. Look at his house. Maybe he is hiding something, or maybe he knows how to get back home. I'm gonna talk with him. Oh god! He has got a gun. What the heck is he doing? What? Is that a Wolf? Oh. Disgusting. I'll rather do my own stuff." said Roger.*

It's on you, whether you will observe others and try to steal his stuff or you'll rather do your own things. We are giving you tools and simple goal: Get out of this island. Good luck!
1993-11-27, Pavilhão Os Belenenses, Lisbon, Portugal

## Tracklist

1. The Bends
2. Prove Yourself
3. You
4. Yes I Am
5. Vegetable
6. Creep
7. Ripcord
8. (Nice Dream)
9. Pop Is Dead
10. Banana Co.
11. Anyone Can Play Guitar
12. Stop Whispering

## Comments

* There's no denying it - both the audio and video here are in pretty abysmal quality. The audio sounds more like it was recorded in the bar next to the venue than inside the venue itself, and features a very loud audience. The tape has audio that's distorted almost beyond recognition and the video is in poor quality, too. It's also filmed from the side of the stage, and runs pretty slowly. Yeah, it's not great, and because of the sound quality, there's nothing to recommend here.
* ...Nonetheless, I still find this one pretty entertaining because of how animated Thom and Ed are here. They flail and jump wildly around the stage. It's particularly amusing to see Thom do the dances you now associate with songs like The Gloaming and Lotus Flower on songs like Vegetable.
* First filmed performance of (Nice Dream)! It's gorgeous as always.
* Wish there was a better recording of it to mark this, but this is the second-last full band Yes I Am ever. The last is a rare '94 performance.
* Interestingly, there's another slight variation in the 'doesn't matter anyway' section of Stop Whispering. The 'fuck you' is back, instead of that one-off instrumental break they try, but they play an extra four bars before he says it. Not sure why this song was such a guinea pig at this point.
1993-11-20, Vernier-sur-Rock, Geneva, Switzerland

## Tracklist

1. The Bends
2. Prove Yourself
3. You
4. Yes I Am
5. Vegetable
6. Creep
7. Ripcord
8. Banana Co.
9. Pop Is Dead
10. Anyone Can Play Guitar (small cut at start)
11. Blow Out

## Comments

* This is a broadcast of a Swiss festival show from the James tour. It's taken from a soundboard (or maybe IEM) mix, and the guitar and bass are nicely defined, but the drums - especially the cymbals - are a bit of a mess. There's also a radio emcee talking over some of the between some of the tracks in French.
* A little bit of a setlist change from the last available recording, which is a nice breath of fresh air. Blow Out has its last performance of '93 (did they not dig this song as much early in their career?), Banana Co. is in the set again, and Stop Whispering is notably omitted - it would soon be back.
* VERY loud and rowdy audience on this tape! Thom even comments on them, saying they'd have to return to Switzerland at some point.
* By far the best part of this (otherwise middling) show is Thom's Phil Collins diss during Pop Is Dead. He dedicates the song to him, calls him a 'Tory wanker' and a 'fucking jerk.' Whatever your opinions are on him, it's a pretty brilliant moment.
* The nature of this tape, for some reason, is such that you can hear Phil doing count-ins in places where you don't normally hear them, such as at the beginning of You.
* Notice Ed slightly messing up the start of Vegetable, which you don't hear very often either.
1995-03-14, Hallam University, Sheffield, England

## Tracklist

1. The Bends
2. Just
3. Anyone Can Play Guitar
4. Bones
5. Permanent Daylight
6. High and Dry
7. Black Star
8. Prove Yourself
9. Stop Whispering
10. Vegetable
11. Fake Plastic Trees
12. Planet Telex
13. Blow Out
14. Creep
15. My Iron Lung
16. You
17. Banana Co.
18. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
19. Ripcord

## Comments

* This is the first full-length audio recording of a conventional full band show from 1995 - the first of many! Both available sources are actually in pretty strong audio quality, especially considering their AUD origins and sketchy lineages. Instruments are distant but well-defined, and the tape accurately captures the atmosphere and size of the venue.
* This gig was performed as part of a UK tour put together to promote The Bends, and in particular, this Sheffield show took place just a day after the release of the album! They meet this momentous occasion with a long setlist, a pretty great summary of all their biggest and best songs up to that point. The show as a whole is nothing special, but there are some nice highlights.
* Setlist nerds will be interested to see The Bends maintain the position of show opener from the 1994 Melkweg gig, as well as You being pushed back to encore opener and the (rather strange) decision to place Blow Out squarely in the middle of the show, in the process promoting Ripcord of all songs to the position of show closer.
* This is a good show to demonstrate how much the old songs started to lose their lustre in live performance as 1995 bore on. Blow Out, Stop Whispering, Vegetable and Anyone Can Play Guitar feel slow and rather belaboured at times, which is a far cry from their quality in 1992-1994. While there are some exceptions (You and Ripcord, the latter of which gets a brilliant chaotic performance here, come to mind) this is a general trend that you'll notice continuing across the year as the songs got slower and the aggression started to fade away.
* It's really heartwarming to hear these Bends songs, which the band had been playing for over a year at this point, finally getting met with knowing cheers and even singing from the crowd. Hearing the audience singing along to the chorus of Just - despite only being released a day prior! - is a really cute moment.
* The performance of the newly-arranged Black Star here is extremely strong. The interplay between Thom and Ed's voices is gorgeous, as is the intricate guitar work; it all comes together to evoke the song's best, saddest qualities.
* Permanent Daylight receives its second-last recorded performance until 2000 here, with some interesting changes. This song underwent pretty constant experimentation in the 1993-1995 period, even after its release, and here is no exception; Thom extends the electric guitar intro to a length far exceeding the studio version.
* 'We're being soppy bastards tonight,' says Thom after High and Dry. If you took a shot every time he said something nice about High and Dry, you'd be depressingly sober.
1992-06-13 BBC Radio 1 'Evening Session'

## Tracklist

1. Prove Yourself
2. Creep
3. I Can't
4. Nothing Touches Me

## Comments

* Amazing sound on all tracks but I Can't, which is marginally worse.
* Creep would become a lot better later, though look out for some alternate lyrics.
* This is one of the few performances of I Can't with good sound, and thankfully it's the best - Thom's vocals are packed with emotion and the choruses are a lot heavier. Colin also kills it on the bass.
* There's also a studio-quality recording of Nothing Touches Me, if you're into it - but I honestly can't see why you would be :)
Lurgee/Recordings

All live recordings of Lurgee.

## Soundboard recordings

* 1993-02-23 Black Session
* 1993-04-02, Roxanne, Tel Aviv, Israel
* 1993-05-05, Bevrijdingspop Festival, Haarlem, Netherlands
* 1993-06-04, Magasinet, Göteborg, Sweden

## Audience recordings

* 1992-11-09, Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, England
* 1993-02-18, Joiner's Arms, Southampton, England

* 1993-05-04, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Scotland
* 1993-06-05, Bergslagsrocken Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
* 1993-06-12, Beeckestijnpop Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* 1993-06-15, Cine 3000, Nancy, France
* 1993-06-20, Passage du Nord, Paris, France
* 1993-06-30, The Metro, Chicago, IL, USA
* 1993-07-13, The Palladium, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* 1993-07-16, World Beat Center, San Diego, CA, USA
* 1993-08-15, Markt Rock Festival, Leuven, Belgium
* 1993-08-21, Waterpop Festival, Wateringen, Netherlands
* 1993-08-28, The Venue, Oxford, England
* 1993-09-01, The Garage, London, England
* 1993-10-06, Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI, USA
* 1993-10-08, Avalon Ballroom, Boston, MA, USA
* 1993-11-11, Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
* 1993-11-12, Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany
* 1994-06-04, Shibuya Club Quatro, Tokyo, Japan
* 1994-09-30, Sheffield University, Sheffield, England
1993-11-22, Transbordeur, Lyon, France

## Comments

* French radio taped the performance of Creep from this Lyon show and sadly didn't broadcast the full show. It probably exists in a crate in an archive somewhere, but until we find it, the rest of the show is lost.
* For what it's worth, Thom's performance here is quite funny. He's clearly becoming increasingly bored with this song, so his vocal histrionics are off the charts, singing in strange accents and putting inflections where they would not normally be. That's not exactly unique in the Radiohead live oeuvre, though - especially later on - so there's otherwise nothing too special going on here.
1993-08-28, The Venue, Oxford, England

## Tracklist

1. The Bends (cuts in slightly)
2. Prove Yourself
3. You (cuts out at beginning)
4. Vegetable (cuts in at very end)
5. Creep
6. Lurgee
7. Yes I Am
8. Stop Whispering
9. Ripcord
10. Inside My Head
11. Anyone Can Play Guitar
12. Pop Is Dead
13. Killer Cars
14. Banana Co.
15. Faithless the Wonder Boy
16. Blow Out

## Comments

* The attribution of this one is interesting. Supposedly, the band cancelled a performance at Reading Festival that day and instead decided to play an intimate gig in Oxford, their hometown. The apparent tape of this show was simply labeled "Oxford Venue 1993", with no other information. Two shows were played there in 1993; one early in the year, and this one in August. This is presumed to be the latter show, since The Bends remains as opener, Thom mentions the re-release of the Creep single and Yes I Am has made its way into the set.
* The tape of this show seems to have been made at the very back of the venue. It's difficult to see the band most of the time, seeing as much of the gig is played in apparent near-darkness. It also has very poor resolution and has suffered from a fair bit of tape degradation. Finally, You and Vegetable are both partial, apparently as a result of technical trouble on the taper's behalf.
* Put aside the many recording niggles and you have a show that's worth getting for the Radiohead completionist. It features the first recorded full-band performance of Yes I Am and a rarity in the form of Killer Cars, in surprisingly decent audio quality.
* Yes I Am is more or less the same as the studio version, and remains that way in every performance since. Surprisingly, it eases quite well into live performance.
* Thom's voice is fairly dire on Killer Cars - at least he admits it himself!
* Someone *really* wants to get Colin's attention towards the end of the gig.
1996-08-26, Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA, USA

## Tracklist

1. The Bends
2. Climbing Up the Walls
3. No Surprises
4. High and Dry
5. I Promise [abandoned and restarted]
6. Creep
7. Electioneering
8. Paranoid Android [early version]
9. Fake Plastic Trees
10. Lift
11. Just
12. Street Spirit (Fade Out)

## Comments

* The last full recording before the *OK Computer* era, the short setlist has a full half of it made up of then-unreleased songs, including the last recording of 'Lift' until 2002.
* During the show Thom repeatedly addresses rough crowd, e.g. before 'I Promise' and before 'Paranoid Android'
* Soundboard recordings of five of those unreleased songs, 'Lift' the only exception, were leaked in 2019 before being officially released as part of MiniDiscs (Hacked).
Rhinestone Cowboy (Glen Campbell cover)

## Description

A country classic, Rhinestone Cowboy was written in 1975 by Glen Campbell and quickly became a mainstream hit. Its singalong chorus and Campbell's trademark drawl make it very fun to listen to and - apparently! - fun to cover.

## Live history

One of Radiohead's most unlikely covers, Rhinestone Cowboy was played infrequently in early 1993. Arrangement-wise it's as close as you can get to the original recording while staying in a rock band format. Thom thankfully never attempted to imitate Campbell's voice, instead staying in a more typical register.

If this is a curio you're interested in picking up, the live-in-studio 1993-02-23 Black session has a fun, loose performance with the band having a ton of fun. A more straight performance can be found on the 1993-06-20 tape, the last show of their mammoth European tour - and its last ever outing.

## List of recordings

See Rhinestone Cowboy (Glen Campbell cover)/Recordings for full list.
Banana Co./Recordings

All live recordings of Banana Co.

## Soundboard recordings

* 1993-02-11 Signal Radio session
* 1993-04-02, Roxanne, Tel Aviv, Israel
* 1993-05-05, Bevrijdingspop Festival, Haarlem, Netherlands
* 1993-06-04, Magasinet, Göteborg, Sweden
* 1993-06-25, Westwood One 'On The Edge'
* 1993-09-03, Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland
* 1993-11-20, Vernier-sur-Rock, Geneva, Switzerland
* 1994-06-04, Shibuya Club Quatro, Tokyo, Japan
* 1994-10-20, La Panza, Ojo de Agua, Mexico
* 1995-02-21 Black Session
* 1995-03-24, The Forum, London, England

## Audience recordings

* 1993-02-18, Joiner's Arms, Southampton, England

* 1993-05-04, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Scotland
* 1993-06-03, Barbue, Copenhagen, Denmark
* 1993-06-05, Bergslagsrocken Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
* 1993-06-12, Beeckestijnpop Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* 1993-06-15, Cine 3000, Nancy, France
* 1993-06-20, Passage du Nord, Paris, France
* 1993-06-30, The Metro, Chicago, IL, USA
* 1993-07-13, The Palladium, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* 1993-07-16, World Beat Center, San Diego, CA, USA
* 1993-08-15, Markt Rock Festival, Leuven, Belgium
* 1993-08-21, Waterpop Festival, Wateringen, Netherlands
* 1993-08-28, The Venue, Oxford, England
* 1993-09-01, The Garage, London, England
* 1993-09-23, Cameo Theatre, Miami, FL, USA
* 1993-10-06, Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI, USA
* 1993-10-08, Avalon Ballroom, Boston, MA, USA
* 1993-10-15, Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA
* 1993-10-22, Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* 1993-11-01, RPM Club, Toronto, Canada
* 1993-11-23, Casino de Paris, Paris, France
* 1993-11-25, Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain
* 1993-11-27, Pavilhão Os Belenenses, Lisbon, Portugal
* 1993-12-09, Brixton Academy, London, England
* 1993-12-11, Guildhall, Portsmouth, England
* 1994-06-04, Shibuya Club Quatro, Tokyo, Japan
* 1994-09-30, Sheffield University, Sheffield, England
* 1994-10-06, Exeter University, Exeter, England
* 1995-02-16, The Eve's Club, London, England
* 1995-03-14, Hallam University, Sheffield, England
* 1995-04-01, Moe's Mo' Rockin' Cafe, Seattle, WA, USA
1993-04-02, Roxanne, Tel Aviv, Israel

## Tracklist

1. You
2. Prove Yourself
3. Ripcord
4. Vegetable
5. Faithless the Wonder Boy
6. Creep
7. How Do You?
8. Stop Whispering
9. Lurgee
10. Million Dollar Question
11. Anyone Can Play Guitar
12. Pop Is Dead
13. Thinking About You
14. Killer Cars
15. Banana Co.
16. The Bends
17. Blow Out
18. Creep
19. Rhinestone Cowboy (Glen Campbell cover)

## Comments

* This is a cassette transfer of an FM recording, presumably for Israeli radio. A DJ speaks between some of the tracks, but it isn't too distracting. The sound quality isn't ideal, but it's tolerable - once you're past the warp of the first few tracks, it's decent sound from there. There is also a slight echo at points but it isn't too distracting
* This is one of the most famous shows that Radiohead has played. Israel was one of the first places where the band was discovered, with Creep becoming a big hit there before anywhere else. As a result, the crowd is, in the words of Thom, the "best audience we've ever had". Every song gets a cheer. People are even singing along to album deep cuts like Thinking About You, to make no mention of Creep.
* The set starts off predictably enough. The band run through an energetic You and a fiery Vegetable. The first sign that the band is really starting to enjoy themselves is during Creep, which is an absolutely killer performance. By the time that Pop Is Dead finishes, the crowd clearly want more. So, for likely the first time until that date, they come out for an encore.
* They start off with a now-acoustic Thinking About You, and move on to the world premiere of Killer Cars, dedicated to some fans that were involved in a car accident after the last gig. For the record, it's leaps and bounds better than the full band arrangement. By this time, they're really emptying out their repertoire. They play an early Banana Co., The Bends and Blow Out and then go off.
* But the fans *still* want more! So what do they do? They come out for a second encore and launch straight into a *second* performance of Creep, with the band clearly having fun by throwing all sorts of alternate parts at it. Finally, for an absolutely-definitely last encore, they bring out probably the only song left for them to conceivably play - the second-ever performance of Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy. And then it's over.
* This is an absolutely essential date. Not only is it their longest performance from 1993, it's also historically the most interesting. Although in terms of performances it's probably not the best 1993 show, for every other reason it is. Highly recommended.
Thinking About You/Recordings

All live recordings of Thinking About You.

## Soundboard recordings

* 1991, Unknown venue
* 1993-04-02, Roxanne, Tel Aviv, Israel
* 1994-07-02, Roskilde Festival (backstage), Roskilde, Denmark

## Audience recordings

* 1993-05-04, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Scotland
* 1993-06-03, Barbue, Copenhagen, Denmark
* 1993-06-15, Cine 3000, Nancy, France
* 1993-06-15, FNAC Auditorium, Nancy, France
* 1993-06-20, Passage du Nord, Paris, France
* 1993-07-11, Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco, CA, USA
* 1993-07-12, The Whiskey A Go-Go, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* 1993-07-16, World Beat Center, San Diego, CA, USA
* 1993-09-23, Cameo Theatre, Miami, FL, USA
* 1993-10-06, Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI, USA
* 1993-10-08, Avalon Ballroom, Boston, MA, USA
* 1993-10-15, Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA
* 1993-10-22, Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* 1993-11-01, RPM Club, Toronto, Canada
* 1994-09-30, Sheffield University, Sheffield, England
* 1994-10-06, Exeter University, Exeter, England
1996-04-06, Varsity Arena, Toronto, Canada

1. My Iron Lung
2. Bones
3. Electioneering
4. High and Dry
5. I Promise
6. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
7. Planet Telex
8. Anyone Can Play Guitar
9. Stop Whispering
10. (Nice Dream)
11. Black Star
12. Lift
13. Creep
14. Lurgee
15. Just
16. Blow Out
17. Fake Plastic Trees
18. Bullet Proof..(I Wish I Was)
19. Lucky
20. The Bends

## Comments

* The performances of 'Lift', 'I Promise', and 'Electioneering', as well as the soundcheck performance of 'Airbag', were leaked in 2019 before being officially released as part of MiniDiscs (Hacked).
Bullet Proof..(I Wish I Was)

## Description

You'd be hard-pressed to find a Radiohead song - especially an early Radiohead song - that is lighter or more dreamy than this one. Bullet Proof is arranged beautifully; it is a totally weightless song, with brushed drums and little peals of Ed's angelic guitar only breaking into the fold every now and then. Radiohead never managed to capture that specific feeling better than they did right here. It's a special track, and a highlight of The Bends.

## Live history

While not one of the most-played songs from The Bends, Bullet Proof..(I Wish I Was) nevertheless has been in live rotation for much of the band's career. Appearing very occasionally as an acoustic number in short sets between 1993 and 1994, Bullet Proof assumed setlist regular status between 1995 and 1998. Past that point, Bullet Proof has been a live rarity, appearing at occasional shows on the Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief and In Rainbows tours; it has not been played since then. At its best, Bullet Proof live feels just as light and emotionally potent as the inimitable studio version.

### 1993

Two years prior to the release of The Bends, Bullet Proof was played at three different short acoustic performances by Thom. Each is worth getting for different reasons; they all present an interesting embryonic version of this song. 1993-06-15, FNAC Auditorium, Nancy, France is its live debut, a short take with lyrics that bear very little resemblance to the studio version. Conversely, the next available performance, 1993-06-25 Westwood One 'On The Edge' session, feels far sadder and more considered (and the lyrics are already a lot more developed.) The final performance is from 1993-11-26 Radio 3 session, recorded for Spanish radio. It feels simultaneously slower yet also more forceful in its arrangement. Take your pick!

### 1994

For some reason, in the year that it was actually put to tape, Bullet Proof was performed even *less* than in 1993. There's only one performance of it, 1994-07-02, Roskilde Festival (backstage), Roskilde, Denmark, recorded with Thom and Jonny for Danish radio. The 1993 takes are probably a little better, but it's still very nice.

## List of recordings

See Bullet Proof..(I Wish I Was)/Recordings for full list.