Thom Yorke - Bridge School 2002

Another old Bridge School show from my old trading days. I'd remembered this as a soundboard recording, but it's clearly just a very high quality audience recording. There are only a couple of points where you can tell though, so clearly the quality is high.

This is all pre-solo/Atoms for Peace stuff, so it's all Radiohead songs and a cover. He plays a bunch of songs that (I don't think) had been released at the time, and the Bridge Benefit crowd tends to be a bit older, but very open to new stuff. He does a good job of winning them over, and generally both sets are really good.

26 October 2002

Everything in its Right Place
I Might Be Wrong
Sail to the Moon
Like Spinning Plates
There, There
Pyramid Song
Lucky
After the Gold Rush

Street Spirit
Morning Bell
Nice Dream
I Might Be Wrong
Sail to the Moon
Like Spinning Plates
True Love Waits
Paranoid Android

https://mega.nz/#F!kMdinR4C!miDk9VxbXHMet7GGFjbGvQ

Something old, something new

There's a bunch of new recordings on the way soon (I promise). In the meantime, someone contacted me about a bunch of old shows where the links are dead. Here are the new links in case anyone else wants them:

Radiohead at Rod Laver Night 1 - https://mega.co.nz/#F!ZdtQWa5A!3oERMr2aCuFuF2qqhM2PBw Radiohead at Rod Laver Night 2 - https://mega.co.nz/#F!pENjwTRb!x234aCtLkIA0M678FxFGtQ Flight of the Conchords at the Plenery - https://mega.co.nz/#F!cR9nFTLb!rjT3ONUFNtAe9Na0fS3LIQ
Beck at Harvest - https://mega.co.nz/#F!cd9zxL4T!jcyaZF0F-yueZTBjc5sLag
Beirut at Harvest - https://mega.co.nz/#F!xRMWjDCL!ZtDvYAOBinAd8wXVdMTXhA
Jack White at Festival Hall - https://mega.co.nz/#F!tE8myRJT!HTy8b_FGQBzm7mN4Lb4-1Q Neutral Milk Hotel at Forum Night 1 - https://mega.co.nz/#F!NAUDjAha!avU5ni7ym2cmesVHXANtYw
Neutral Milk Hotel at Forum Night 2 - https://mega.co.nz/#F!lQcGUArJ!XLvwXyPAT4Rpj3MgKbW7GQ

Radiohead - 16 November 2012, Rod Laver Arena

I had meant to put this up a bit quicker, but there was a bit of noise on the recording that I tried to fix. That ocassional talking is the main reason I've rated this night lower than the following one - really they were both great in different ways, but the recording of this isn't as good as night 2.

For me, this show started off a bit slow, and I didn't really get into it until Myxomatosis. Thom's voice is also a bit flat on ocassion, but warms up as the show goes on. The obvious highlight is Karma Police, given that its a 'hit' (as much as Radiohead has hits) and was unexpected, but there are a bunch of songs that are at least as good.

Lastly, I can't help but mention the person liked Feral a lot more than they should. Its either funny or disgusting depending on your perspective.

http://www.mediafire.com/?6dbd6wvbbqozd

Radiohead - 17 November 2012, Rod Laver Arena

Final night of the world tour, and while the band didn't play anything completely leftfield, there were lots of songs that have only made infrequent appearances on this years setlists. Unlike last night, Rod Laver filled up on time and the band only came out five minutes late (also like last night there was quite a lot of room in general admission, which must really annoy everyone that missed out on tickets). It's hard for me to judge the quality of some parts of this, because the visuals are almost a show in and of themselves (I'm not sure whether You and Whose Army? was amazing, or if it's just the memory of the somewhat creepy super extreme Thom Yorke closeup).

The sound for this is really good (a bit better than the first night because I did a better job setting levels and had less talking around me). I've also started converting a few tracks to mono where someone on one side is talking a lot (the Beck recording from Harvest has someone talking almost throughout and I think this trick might save it).

The only thing left to say is that hopefully we don't have to wait eight more years (or nearly 15 if you're in New Zealand!) for another tour (they must nearly have a full album of songs ready with The Daily Mail, Staircase, Supercollider, Ful Stop, Identikit, and These Are My Twisted Words (if they wanted to go back to an older unreleased-on-an-album track)).

Lotus Flower
Bloom
There There
The Daily Mail
Myomatosis
The Gloaming
Seperator
Kid A
How to Disappear Completely
Nude
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Ful Stop
You and Whose Army?
Paranoid Android
Feral
Bodysnatchers

Exit Music (for a Film)
These Are My Twisted Words
Pyramid Song
Planet Telex
Idioteque

Give Up the Ghost
Reckoner
True Love Waits/Everything in it's Right Place

http://www.mediafire.com/?t3d0wpu4wp0yy

Radiohead Tour Celebratory Mashup

Mashups have an incredibly bad reputation that those who produce them have spent a lot of time working very hard (and successfully) to justify.  However, sometimes, very very rarely, someone ignores the formula and creates something that is actually interesting and even adds something to the original (big call I know, and you may not agree).  Anyway, I've had this for a few years and had thought that if/when Radiohead announced an Australian tour I'd put it up. But I forgot.  Nevermind, here it is, Radiohead vs Dave Brubeck - 5 Step (Overdub Bootleg).

http://overdubsound.free.fr/fivestep/

and the youtube video: http://youtu.be/TYa7furgQsA