down is the new up
usually if i go to a show that is really good, i'll say it was good and that will be the end of that. friday night i saw radiohead. and it was pretty incredible.
however, tonight's radiohead show was like the kind that will live in your dreams and linger for days to come. after seeing them tonight, all i want to do is listen to them endlessly. and normally, these days, i wouldn't write many particulars, but this show was just so memorable, that i feel like it has to be documented somewhere. and so...
before the show even started, things were all over the place. i had a really good spot in line and then got moved up in line farther and each time i was in a different spot, i got offered different kinds of food. the first time, i got offered melted hazelnut chocolate, then i moved up and got potato pastries and a beer. so bizarre. this guy was just like, "hey here's an extra beer." so i drank to the good of radiohead! and to standing in line for 5 hours!
and how strange is it that i ended up sitting next to that weird mark guy who always wears cowboy boots and likes the strokes from popscene? besides that, the crowd was a lot more energetic today than they were friday. people were more rowdy and rambunctious, not in an obnoxious get-out-of-my-face-or-i'll-hurt-you-way, but more like a look-at-me-try-to-dance-like-thom-yorke way.
anywho, they began the set with airbag, and proceeded to play a ridiculous amount of ok computer, including my favorites climbing up the walls (fantastic!), no surprises (sigh) and paranoid android (unexpected surprise)! there was this one point they began to play this new song, nude, i think it's called and thom made the band stop halfway through the song because it didn't sound right. so they played it over again, "from the top." the band was generally a lot more active tonight and thom did a lot of his weird i-have-rickets dance moves and spoke to the crowd a lot. the new songs that were repeated in their setlist from the night before sounded a lot better and more put together and by the time they played how to disappear completely (which i wasn't expecting either), i was completely in a trance.
they did not play idioteque again or ever play karma police, but did do fake plastic trees during their encore, so i guess maybe it all cancels each other out. especially when you consider the fact that they started playing true love waits as an intro to everything in its right place!! wtf. that basically made everything.
then during some song in the encore, i think maybe black star, this guy runs up on stage and this security guy immediately tackles him and they just roll around on the stage for a bit while the band continues to do their own business. it was fairly amusing to see. and then they closed with the tourist and i died and went to ok computer heaven.
overall while i am still not sure if tonight's setlist was better than friday's i would say tonight was definitely the better concert by far, if only because the retarded drunk people made things more interesting, the intensity of thom's quirky dances, a light show enough to give you seizures, and the guy who ran up on stage. it was quite spectacular and i am sad that i do not have more time/money to see them in san diego and l.a.!
oh well! tomorrow is gay pride so i am going to hang with, as chirag would call them, "a pack of gays" and celebrate and cheer to a positively delightful radiohead-filled weekend.
however, tonight's radiohead show was like the kind that will live in your dreams and linger for days to come. after seeing them tonight, all i want to do is listen to them endlessly. and normally, these days, i wouldn't write many particulars, but this show was just so memorable, that i feel like it has to be documented somewhere. and so...
before the show even started, things were all over the place. i had a really good spot in line and then got moved up in line farther and each time i was in a different spot, i got offered different kinds of food. the first time, i got offered melted hazelnut chocolate, then i moved up and got potato pastries and a beer. so bizarre. this guy was just like, "hey here's an extra beer." so i drank to the good of radiohead! and to standing in line for 5 hours!
and how strange is it that i ended up sitting next to that weird mark guy who always wears cowboy boots and likes the strokes from popscene? besides that, the crowd was a lot more energetic today than they were friday. people were more rowdy and rambunctious, not in an obnoxious get-out-of-my-face-or-i'll-hurt-you-way, but more like a look-at-me-try-to-dance-like-thom-yorke way.
anywho, they began the set with airbag, and proceeded to play a ridiculous amount of ok computer, including my favorites climbing up the walls (fantastic!), no surprises (sigh) and paranoid android (unexpected surprise)! there was this one point they began to play this new song, nude, i think it's called and thom made the band stop halfway through the song because it didn't sound right. so they played it over again, "from the top." the band was generally a lot more active tonight and thom did a lot of his weird i-have-rickets dance moves and spoke to the crowd a lot. the new songs that were repeated in their setlist from the night before sounded a lot better and more put together and by the time they played how to disappear completely (which i wasn't expecting either), i was completely in a trance.
they did not play idioteque again or ever play karma police, but did do fake plastic trees during their encore, so i guess maybe it all cancels each other out. especially when you consider the fact that they started playing true love waits as an intro to everything in its right place!! wtf. that basically made everything.
then during some song in the encore, i think maybe black star, this guy runs up on stage and this security guy immediately tackles him and they just roll around on the stage for a bit while the band continues to do their own business. it was fairly amusing to see. and then they closed with the tourist and i died and went to ok computer heaven.
overall while i am still not sure if tonight's setlist was better than friday's i would say tonight was definitely the better concert by far, if only because the retarded drunk people made things more interesting, the intensity of thom's quirky dances, a light show enough to give you seizures, and the guy who ran up on stage. it was quite spectacular and i am sad that i do not have more time/money to see them in san diego and l.a.!
oh well! tomorrow is gay pride so i am going to hang with, as chirag would call them, "a pack of gays" and celebrate and cheer to a positively delightful radiohead-filled weekend.