Who: Radiohead
Where: in Prague in Exhibition Center Vystaviste, in a large park.
When: Sunday 23 August 2009
Sound: one of the best I've heard in a concert.
The stage: It was special with multiple bars at different heights, in order to fit the band. It took about an hour to set it up.
Started: at 20:18
Bid us farewell at 22:23, after 2 hours and 5 minutes.
What was played in the main "menu":
15 step (video),
There There,
Weird Fishes / Arpeggi (video),
All I need,
Lucky,
Morning Bell,
A Wolf at the door,
Nude,
2 + 2 = 5,
(Nice Dream) (video),
Reckoner,
Exit Music (for a film) (video),
The Gloaming (video),
Bodysnatchers,
Bangers n 'Mash (with Thom Yorke at the second drums - first heard 2008 and may be included in the next album of the band),
Idioteque
We have an encore:
Pyramid song (dedicated to the great Czech writer Franz Kafka),
Airbag (video),
These are my twisted words (their new song - T-shirts already existed for it),
The National Anthem (video),
How to disappear Completely
We have a second encore:
The Bends
True Love Waits (with a very different electronic version) + Everything in its' right place (video)
Best moments: Exit Music (for a film), How to disappear completely .
After the interesting, I think, statistics of the evening, you can change page and leave this article, unless you want to read a rather not objective review of the concert of Radiohead, that we saw last Sunday in beautiful Prague. All humans have their weaknesses and I have for better or worst a certain weakness for this group.
What I expected before the concert : Just to see them again after 9 years.
What I saw : that nothing has changed, even though I thought that so many things were different.
Thom Yorke remains one of the most gifted singers and performers, with the ability to do what he wants with his voice and draw the audience in his own world, even if last Sunday he was not as talkative as usually. I was glad to see him act as a child on stage again. Playing various instruments in addition to voice and dance, sometimes with his own special way.
Jonny Greenwood remains the "psycho "musician of the gang, who puts his hair or the hood (that he wears) in front of him, so as not to show us how much he enjoys what he does.
Ed O 'Brien accompanies with his guitar and backing vocals (not that Thom needs it, of course).
And finally, Jonny's little brother, Colin Greenwood "synchronizing" classic bass with the drums of Phil Selway , playing next to him and constantly having a big smile.
The group has confirmed once again that any song from the older albums that is considered "mainstream" is automatically taken off the setlist of the concerts. So last Sunday, after they played the main songs of the year before last's "In Rainbows", they chose songs for "hip" friends from the previous albums. They chose very nice pieces, but not their hits. Just perfect for a true friend who has "traveled" with the best moment of the evening, "Exit Music", "How to disappear completely", "Lucky", "(Nice dream)" and has danced with "Idioteque", "Bends" and "National Anthem".
If we want to hear one of the excellent "House of Cards", "Nude", "Weird Fishes" from their last album, better do not tell them. Sshh ... Do not let them figure it out, or they won't play it live again... Perhaps that happens to give more value to the moment when one of them is played again.
Last Sunday's live had certainly many thousands of people and the pulse I had expected. We didn't expect the volume and dance that you get from Manu Chao or Metallica per say, but because most friends of the band have come close to Radiohead albums, rather than individual pieces, they seemed (in their own way) to enjoy even the most peaceful moments of the concert.
I have more to write, but some I'd like to keep for myself and of course if I continue to write you'll start to get bored (if you have not already done so). Just a thought I'd share with you. I love those moments when only the poignant voice of "Tom" is heard in songs like "Exit music" and "How to disappear completely". I think that is one of the elements that distinguishes Radiohead .
P.S. StavrosT isn't among the fans of the band, but puts Sunday's live among the 3 best he has ever seen. You'd best not read anything from Nota , because she's not objective just like me ...
Where: in Prague in Exhibition Center Vystaviste, in a large park.
When: Sunday 23 August 2009
Sound: one of the best I've heard in a concert.
The stage: It was special with multiple bars at different heights, in order to fit the band. It took about an hour to set it up.
Started: at 20:18
Bid us farewell at 22:23, after 2 hours and 5 minutes.
What was played in the main "menu":
15 step (video),
There There,
Weird Fishes / Arpeggi (video),
All I need,
Lucky,
Morning Bell,
A Wolf at the door,
Nude,
2 + 2 = 5,
(Nice Dream) (video),
Reckoner,
Exit Music (for a film) (video),
The Gloaming (video),
Bodysnatchers,
Bangers n 'Mash (with Thom Yorke at the second drums - first heard 2008 and may be included in the next album of the band),
Idioteque
We have an encore: Pyramid song (dedicated to the great Czech writer Franz Kafka),
Airbag (video),
These are my twisted words (their new song - T-shirts already existed for it),
The National Anthem (video),
How to disappear Completely
We have a second encore:
The Bends
True Love Waits (with a very different electronic version) + Everything in its' right place (video)
Best moments: Exit Music (for a film), How to disappear completely .
After the interesting, I think, statistics of the evening, you can change page and leave this article, unless you want to read a rather not objective review of the concert of Radiohead, that we saw last Sunday in beautiful Prague. All humans have their weaknesses and I have for better or worst a certain weakness for this group.
What I expected before the concert : Just to see them again after 9 years. What I saw : that nothing has changed, even though I thought that so many things were different.
Thom Yorke remains one of the most gifted singers and performers, with the ability to do what he wants with his voice and draw the audience in his own world, even if last Sunday he was not as talkative as usually. I was glad to see him act as a child on stage again. Playing various instruments in addition to voice and dance, sometimes with his own special way.
Jonny Greenwood remains the "psycho "musician of the gang, who puts his hair or the hood (that he wears) in front of him, so as not to show us how much he enjoys what he does.
Ed O 'Brien accompanies with his guitar and backing vocals (not that Thom needs it, of course).
And finally, Jonny's little brother, Colin Greenwood "synchronizing" classic bass with the drums of Phil Selway , playing next to him and constantly having a big smile.
The group has confirmed once again that any song from the older albums that is considered "mainstream" is automatically taken off the setlist of the concerts. So last Sunday, after they played the main songs of the year before last's "In Rainbows", they chose songs for "hip" friends from the previous albums. They chose very nice pieces, but not their hits. Just perfect for a true friend who has "traveled" with the best moment of the evening, "Exit Music", "How to disappear completely", "Lucky", "(Nice dream)" and has danced with "Idioteque", "Bends" and "National Anthem".
If we want to hear one of the excellent "House of Cards", "Nude", "Weird Fishes" from their last album, better do not tell them. Sshh ... Do not let them figure it out, or they won't play it live again... Perhaps that happens to give more value to the moment when one of them is played again. Last Sunday's live had certainly many thousands of people and the pulse I had expected. We didn't expect the volume and dance that you get from Manu Chao or Metallica per say, but because most friends of the band have come close to Radiohead albums, rather than individual pieces, they seemed (in their own way) to enjoy even the most peaceful moments of the concert.
I have more to write, but some I'd like to keep for myself and of course if I continue to write you'll start to get bored (if you have not already done so). Just a thought I'd share with you. I love those moments when only the poignant voice of "Tom" is heard in songs like "Exit music" and "How to disappear completely". I think that is one of the elements that distinguishes Radiohead .
P.S. StavrosT isn't among the fans of the band, but puts Sunday's live among the 3 best he has ever seen. You'd best not read anything from Nota , because she's not objective just like me ...
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