Radiohead @ Reading

[lifelessfool]

On the coverage on the Beeb, I swear they just put the wrong song title for a radiohead song, this has angered me.

[KingOfTheRodeo]

Radiohead at Reading was without doubt the best gig of my life. Dissapointed by the some of the lack of interest from the crowd around me, even at the front, but this didnt stop me really enjoying myself. I think i nearly cried during Nude. Beautiful, beautiful moment. Also the crowd singing back the ' i lost myself' part of Karma Police was epic.

[moz4pm]

i was a little disappointed after seeing the setlist reading got but i'm not gonna let that ruin the memory of what was a fantastic performance, i loved every minute of it. Had to listen to some morons in the bus queue the next day saying 'Yeah I watched Radiohead for about 20 minutes but i didn't want to fall asleep so watched la roux and she was amazing' (ugh!) followed by 'I watched the whole set in the hope they'd play creep, the bastards didnt even play it, they were crap' at which point i turned round picked the young woman up and dropped her on her head, to massive cheers from surrounding radiohead fans.

Edited September 5, 2009 by moz4pm

[MEGABOWL]

Re. the Leeds set. I'm a huge fan but that was very badly chosen. I didn't expect the average Leeds fan to get it, it's not Glastonbury, La Roux was playing having been on the screen adverts on the NME Stage all weekend, and it's where I saw Pxies get an incredbly small crowd for an incredibly good headlining set in 2005, but it was still very poor choice of setlist albeit brilliantly played

[NikNik]

Loved it, my band of the weekend. Without question the ultimate festival band for me. Totally agree with the idiots that would have been surrounding people in the crowd. I was just to the left of the main screen on in the middle of Reading and was still surprised i had loads of room. I had 1 woman and 1 man next to me during the set who were loving it so much on my left, and on my right a load of teenagers just looking bored and chating to each other. Though it was amazing, personally I prefered the V 2006 Staffs set as was just perfection for me. Was gutted they didnt play How To Disapear Completley and Fake Plastic Trees and think just because they started on Creep (which even I didnt expect) Leeds had an equally great set. Leeds still got A Wolf At The Door (which i was wishing they would have played are Reading the most), Videotape and Nice Dream. Every person I went to the festival with loved the set and even people that wernt Radiohead fans came back in wonder at them. The light show was amazing as this was the 1st time I have had a chance to see it in full at the night time. Karma Police, Climbing up the walls(the madness at the end of the song was immense) and Everything In Its Right Place were my favourites and can only hope they play Glasto 10.

niknik

[guyfawkes]

Personally i thought Leeds did just aswell getting Nice Dream and Airbag, all depends on taste i guess Creep is a massively overrated song of theirs in my opinion.

[j...rox]

I guess every radiohead needs to see creep done at least once, and it's not a bad start to watching them which i hope will be the first of many.

Still engrained in my mind, street spirit was the best song though. So emotional, men were actually crying.

[Crouchie]

I guess every radiohead needs to see creep done at least once, and it's not a bad start to watching them which i hope will be the first of many.

Still engrained in my mind, street spirit was the best song though. So emotional, men were actually crying.

[Crouchie]

. Also the crowd singing back the ' i lost myself' part of Karma Police was epic.

[Sparticus]

Radiohead will always do their own thing, just the way they are lol. Yes, leeds got the raw end of the deal in terms of "hits", but swings and roundabouts, got to hear some songs that are very rarely played such as nice dream, and airbag was a fantastic way to open the show.

[JameSemajj]

The thing is, is that a festival crowd isn't the same as the crowd you would get at there own gig, obivoulsly. It is therefore inappropiate in my opinion to play songs such as 'wolf at the door' at a festival.. I apreciate that there is going to be a certain amount of big fans, like myself making an appearence.. (I prefered the leeds set) however, i feel that you have to please the minority and the majority.. and this would have been fulfilled if they had played a Reading setlist there!

I guess with radiohead you just don't know what to expect, which i kinda like i guess!

[tweemo freak]

If i had been there it would have been a relentless dillema between Radiohead and Lostprophets

[rockinthecasbah]

Personally i thought Leeds did just aswell getting Nice Dream and Airbag, all depends on taste i guess Creep is a massively overrated song of theirs in my opinion.

[Joshuwarr]

a stunning set even if they did play Karma Police!

[benissright]

I was fairly confident they would start with creep.

Dont know why.

[JameSemajj]

Why? the last time they played creep first was 1994 i think........

[benissright]

For some reason, it got stuck in my head somewhere that they would. I confidentally predicted it to everyone i met. Maybe im psychic.

[olly!olly!olly!]

last time they played creep first pre-reading was in chile in march this year

im a bit sad so before reading i looked at the previous setlists to get an idea of what they'd play cos i was so excited about it.

playing creep first at reading made sense as well i thought

[scaryclaireyfairy]

blah.

Edited October 2, 2009 by scaryclaireyfairy

[JameSemajj]

blah?

Edited October 2, 2009 by JameSemajj

[Gary]

I think their performance was somewhat mediocre. I didn't think it was as thrilling as people keep telling me it was.

Creep was of course a highlight, but meh.

[moz4pm]

the fact you say creep was a highlight devoids your opinion on the performance

[thomasowen]

the fact you say creep was a highlight devoids your opinion on the performance

[JameSemajj]

the fact you say creep was a highlight devoids your opinion on the performance

[JameSemajj]

No it doesn't, lots of people thought that was a highlight and it's personaly one of my favourite Radiohead songs.