June 24, 2006

Radiohead - Berkeley Greek Theater

Once, my dear cousin drove eight hours to see them in Boston; proudly proclaimed how awesome a show they put on.
Once, they played the Shoreline on my birthday, the first I saw them live.
Once, New Order was my favorite band...
"Green plastic watering cans"


Radiohead, Berkeley Greek Theater, June 24, 2006.

Hard to describe Radiohead live. Add the Greek Theater as the sixth man, and I'm doubly at loss of words. I just remember tonight a welling-up smile that never left. Thru anthem, guitars, piano and two encores. Then after, tongue-tied.

Set list:
Airbag
2+2=5
Where I End And You Begin
15 Step
Kid A
Dollars And Cents
Down Is The New Up
Nude (Thom stops mid-song, re-starts "let's take it from the top.")
Paranoid Android (Possibly the best crowd energizer.)
No Surprises (My highlight)
The Gloaming
All I Need
Climbing Up The Walls
Go Slowly (Thom: "Some of our new songs are sketchy, Very sketchy.")
Myxomatosis

Bangers 'N Mash
How To Disappear Completely

Encore
Fake Plastic Trees (Another highlight)
Arpeggi

Black Star (Surprisingly beautiful live!)
True Love Waits

Everything In Its Right Place

Encore 2
Bodysnatchers
(Thom: "The fog's come in. Its time to go home. If you invite us into your apartments, we can keep this going.")
The Tourist

Thanks to green plastic radiohead.

Missing: Lift, My Iron Lung, Creep

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

2nd night's setlist sounds really good. got to go the first night, which was plagued by tech difficulties, but thom's onstage tantrums towards the techpeople made up for that

Michael de Leon said...

Quite a difference between night 1 and 2. I thought I saw the better set list with FPT, Blackstar, True Love Waits, Airbag, noid droid, No Surprises, climbing...aside from some problem during Nude(mic?), nothing much else surprising. Except if you consider True Love Waits intro-ing into EIIRP.