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Radiohead - Glasgow Green
Jesus Christ, it’s pissing it down, but! On a rain sodden night, can Radiohead cheer up a decidedly glum Glasgow crowd?
Support act Bat For Lashes are remarkable – What a voice!- and it’s almost like they’re throwing a gauntlet down to their headliners. But really, no one can challenge Radiohead. The cheers, when they come on resemble collective madness. Weirdly, when they walk on, the heavens quite literally open, making what we’ve already endured seem a drizzle. There’s a storm coming folks!
The band cheer everybody up quickly. Sod Glastonbury. Frankly, sod The Led Zep reunion . This kind of potency and ability are as rare as a BNP member who makes sense.
We get very little from the bands twin skyscrapers sadly, (I can’t recall anything from ‘The Bends’), but the majority of ‘In Rainbows’ is played. When the band launch in to ‘Nude’, the audience hold collective breath to see if Thom can hit that note. No probs. He hits it with ease, actually surpassing the studio version.
Then we get (monsieur your really spoiling us), a magnificent ‘Weird Fishes’, Jonny’s guitar threatening to split in two, during which, a heavyset bloke in front of me starts weeping in a melodramatic, over the top way of a teenage girl at a Westlife concert.
A familiar glockenspiel riff starts, and – Jesus Christ! – It’s ‘No Surprises!’. We’re getting a better deal than London it seems. A storming ‘Airbag’, is shouted back to the band as if the audiences lives depended on it, whilst ‘The National Anthem’, is, for one night at least, Scotland’s own.
- Radiohead
- Glasgow Green (27th June 2008)
- Category: Live
- Label: XL Recordings
- Support: Bat For Lashes
- Reviewed by: bobbins
- Published on: 30 Jun 2008
- Comments: 1
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Add to favouritesJust as the constant rain is soaking in to our bones, they launch in to ‘How To Disappear Completely’. It’s the highlight of the night, (that ‘I’m not here, this isn’t happening’ refrain was made for nights like this), and makes us all forget everything but the collective moment. Thrillingly, ‘2+2=5’ is played, the band channelling the spirit of Nirvana. They should do more stuff like this, as when they do ‘Rock’, they’re completely untouchable.
During ‘House of Cards’, the audience, (most of them), sing back to Thom ‘I don’t want to be your friend. I just want to be your lover’…….Now, personally, I don’t love them that much.
It’s remarkable how high the band take this audience tonight. As we drunkenly weave our way homeward the audience decide to do an encore for the band. ‘Rain down, rain down. Come on rain down, on me.’
Jesus Christ, it’s pissing down, but!
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Comment Permalink | spangled said:
This was the worst concert i have ever been to. It was badly organised, and ruined completely. Radiohead were amazing, played and performed to perfection, but it was such a horrible gig! I have been waiting for years to see this band and if they come again I don’t think i’ll bother. It’s a shame.
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