Radiohead Headlining 2017

[jparx]

Exit Music is a phenomenal song and was the highlight of their set at NOS Alive. Anyone who argues otherwise is out of their mind 

[stuartbert two hats]

 

[russycarps]

5 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

This would be unreal. I don't know why EM(FAF) gets a bit of a mixed press amongst RH fans. Complaints that it's 'dull' until the build up. It's one of my all time favourite Radiohead songs (songs in general?), both lyrically and musically. To be there as silence falls on the Pyramid field with TY croaking 'that you choke, that you ch-o-o-o-oke'...I might just have a bit of a moment.

Ben

Yep, it's brill.

I have to say though, that karma police leaves me cold. Yes there is the opportunity for the singalong bit, but it is right at the bottom of the list of my desires. 

I'll be pigsick if the only ok computer songs we get are karma police, paranoid android and no surprises. Who in their right might wouldnt swap them for climbing up the walls, exit music and let down. 

Fuck the singalongs!

 

 

[bennyhana22]

5 minutes ago, russycarps said:

Yep, it's brill.

I have to say though, that karma police leaves me cold. Yes there is the opportunity for the singalong bit, but it is right at the bottom of the list of my desires. 

I'll be pigsick if the only ok computer songs we get are karma police, paranoid android and no surprises. Who in their right might wouldnt swap them for climbing up the walls, exit music and let down. 

Fuck the singalongs!

 

 

Agree with you up to No Surprises. I know it suffers from overexposure, but it kills me everytime. It's one of my favourite songs to play on the uke - played with the correct, quite tricky, chord sequence, not the Uke 101 watered down version that Amanda Palmer murders. I confess to having shed a tear to it at the Roundhouse. It was dusty, mind...

Ben

[Stokesy10]

I think there should be a petition against annoying people* trying to sing during Nude. Should be banned. Complete silence please not your out of tune shit.

 

 

 

 

Me.

[Hugh Jass]

6 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

I think there should be a petition against annoying people* trying to sing during Nude. Should be banned. Complete silence please not your out of tune shit.

 

One of the things that I loved about the Roundhouse gigs was the complete silence during some of their quieter songs, you could have heard a pin drop during Daydreaming. It's a bit harder to pull that off in a field of 80,000 people though.

[cdm22]

34 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

 

That bit always makes me smile!

Edited October 14, 2016 by cdm22

[Mezhyp1]

1 hour ago, White Bear said:

 

If they're to play Glasgow I reckon it's more likely to be part of the Bellahouston Park 'Summer Sessions' gigs at the end of August. 

They'd easily sell it out, get a decent under card and DF would make a pretty penny.

Not sure about that one. They've always played very safe in terms of who they book for that, tickets aren't cheap so they need it to be someone thats guaranteed to sell a lot of tickets. I'm not sure Radiohead would achieve that at all 

[T-Mouse]

25 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

I think there should be a petition against annoying people* trying to sing during Nude. Should be banned. Complete silence please not your out of tune shit.

Me.

Agreed on this. Can we also all agree that if/when they drop 2+2=5, everyone begins screaming manically after the line "You can scream and you can shout"?

Edited October 14, 2016 by T-Mouse

[SwedgeAntilles]

Aye Summer Sessions tends to flit between young folk/lad-y demographics. There's not much love for your introspective beard stroking crowd. 

I tried to be introspective and beard strokey during Noel and the High Flying Lads this year and a guy in a bucket hat punched me in the back of the head and stole my pocket money 

[Hugh Jass]

10 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

Not sure about that one. They've always played very safe in terms of who they book for that, tickets aren't cheap so they need it to be someone thats guaranteed to sell a lot of tickets. I'm not sure Radiohead would achieve that at all

How big is that venue? If the Roundhouse ticket scramble taught us anything it's that they won't struggle to shift tickets.

[Mezhyp1]

Just now, Hugh Jass said:

How big is that venue? If the Roundhouse ticket scramble taught us anything it's that they won't struggle to shift tickets.

i believe the licence is for 35,000 punters. Which i dont know if i could see Radiohead selling in Scotland

[Bradders]

They closed with Karma Police at the Roundhouse and it did nothing for me.

Thought the whole gig was only ok tbh. It was great to hear Kid A, and the run of Myxomatosis-Idioteque-Street Spirit was amazing, but overall we left disappointed. Don't really agree with people saying it was a diverse crowd either. It was probably 70-80% 35-55 year old men plus a few women around that age and the odd small group of 20 somethings. It was the only gig I've ever been to where I had to queue for the toilets but my girlfriend didn't.

Edited October 14, 2016 by Bradders

[SwedgeAntilles]

Here's a question for you, what's your top 5 songs you hope they play/are most looking forward at Glastonbury? If you're anything like me it's probably quite different from your top five Radiohead tracks (I have the fear Reckoner will never be as good as it is in my head). My five would be:

EIIRP. Weird Fishes. Karma Police. 2+2=5. Let Down. 

[MichaelsBeard]

57 minutes ago, jparx said:

Exit Music is a phenomenal song and was the highlight of their set at NOS Alive. Anyone who argues otherwise is out of their mind 

Agreed. Phenomenal moment. When it kicked in at the end was awesome. 

 

Tame Impala, Foals, Hot Chip, Jagwar Ma all the day as well. Absolute belter. 

[arcade fireman]

47 minutes ago, russycarps said:

Yep, it's brill.

I have to say though, that karma police leaves me cold. Yes there is the opportunity for the singalong bit, but it is right at the bottom of the list of my desires. 

I'll be pigsick if the only ok computer songs we get are karma police, paranoid android and no surprises. Who in their right might wouldnt swap them for climbing up the walls, exit music and let down. 

Fuck the singalongs!

 

 

I dunno about that, I think seeing Radiohead at Glasto is a very different experience to seeing them in an arena. CUTW was great at the Roundhouse but not sure if I'd be that keen to see it in a Glasto set. Part of a truly great Pyramid performance is getting the massive  crowd together in unison and I think the 'hits' would do that far better. That said they've been playing Let Down at loads of festivals recently and it sounded great in Berlin so maybe there will be the best of both worlds. Their festival sets have largely been the hits though with very few rarities thrown in - even Let Down became a staple during the tour.

They have to end on Karma Police and I would be very surprised if they didn't. It's the only song they finish on where the band stay on stage and lead the crowd into an acapella singalong. If that isn't an all time classic Glasto moment I don't know what is. 

[russycarps]

14 minutes ago, Bradders said:

It was the only gig I've ever been to where I had to queue for the toilets but my girlfriend didn't.

wow I've been to loads of gigs like that. But then again, I dont go to take that, justin bieber etc gigs

 

[tevaburger]

59 minutes ago, russycarps said:

Fuck the singalongs!

 

 

or just save them for the massive mass movement crowd walking away from pyramid-left towards cider bus direction...(Macca, Stones)

[russycarps]

12 minutes ago, arcade fireman said:

I dunno about that, I think seeing Radiohead at Glasto is a very different experience to seeing them in an arena. CUTW was great at the Roundhouse but not sure if I'd be that keen to see it in a Glasto set. Part of a truly great Pyramid performance is getting the massive  crowd together in unison and I think the 'hits' would do that far better. That said they've been playing Let Down at loads of festivals recently and it sounded great in Berlin so maybe there will be the best of both worlds. Their festival sets have largely been the hits though with very few rarities thrown in - even Let Down became a staple during the tour.

They have to end on Karma Police and I would be very surprised if they didn't. It's the only song they finish on where the band stay on stage and lead the crowd into an acapella singalong. If that isn't an all time classic Glasto moment I don't know what is. 

I still am not clear what the "hits" are with radiohead. Creep, karma police, paranoid android, street spirit, no surprises and fake plastic trees I guess? They played 5 of those 6 the last 2 times they played. I cant see why they would want a quarter of the gig to be exactly the same as the last times they played, especially as they are unlikely to sound as good given that thom's voice is nowhere near as good these days.

 

 

Edited October 14, 2016 by russycarps

[JSmurphy]

15 minutes ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Here's a question for you, what's your top 5 songs you hope they play/are most looking forward at Glastonbury? If you're anything like me it's probably quite different from your top five Radiohead tracks (I have the fear Reckoner will never be as good as it is in my head). My five would be:

EIIRP. Weird Fishes. Karma Police. 2+2=5. Let Down. 

I'm gonna have to go with five that I didn't hear at the Roundhouse soooo: Reckoner, A Wolf At The Door (never gonna happen but what a brilliant song), Paranoid Android, Fake Plastic Trees, Exit Music (For A Film).

[Bradders]

6 minutes ago, russycarps said:

wow I've been to loads of gigs like that. But then again, I dont go to take that, justin bieber etc gigs

 

Eh? Because that's what girls like?

[russycarps]

1 minute ago, Bradders said:

Eh? Because that's what girls like?

Girls and you.

 

[jparx]

Weird Fishes

Let Down

Fake Plastic Trees

Pyramid Song

I Might Be Wrong

@SwedgeAntilles I always find 2+2=5 disappointing live. The guitar intro always sounds really crappy and I feel like the band can't keep up with the pace of it towards the end.

[ivan]

24 minutes ago, arcade fireman said:

I dunno about that, I think seeing Radiohead at Glasto is a very different experience to seeing them in an arena. CUTW was great at the Roundhouse but not sure if I'd be that keen to see it in a Glasto set. Part of a truly great Pyramid performance is getting the massive  crowd together in unison and I think the 'hits' would do that far better. That said they've been playing Let Down at loads of festivals recently and it sounded great in Berlin so maybe there will be the best of both worlds. Their festival sets have largely been the hits though with very few rarities thrown in - even Let Down became a staple during the tour.

They have to end on Karma Police and I would be very surprised if they didn't. It's the only song they finish on where the band stay on stage and lead the crowd into an acapella singalong. If that isn't an all time classic Glasto moment I don't know what is. 

What happens if apart from the efestivals/Radiohead groupies , the vast majority of those that were successful on T day are not into Radiohead ?

It maybe a load of pilled up kids that were hoping for Calvin Harris that did well last Thursday and Sunday

If Metallica get abuse for headlining Glastonbury then so may Radiohead from the young twitter generation !

 

[Hugh Jass]

32 minutes ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Here's a question for you, what's your top 5 songs you hope they play/are most looking forward at Glastonbury? If you're anything like me it's probably quite different from your top five Radiohead tracks (I have the fear Reckoner will never be as good as it is in my head). My five would be:

EIIRP. Weird Fishes. Karma Police. 2+2=5. Let Down.

Reckoner, National Anthemn, Just, Myxomatosis, Jigsaw Falling Into Place.

Edited October 14, 2016 by Hugh Jass