Troubling news has just emerged for Australian Radiohead fans. The band kicked off their tour with their sole New Zealand show last night at Auckland’s Vector Arena and reports are emerging that Thom Yorke was suffering throat troubles throughout the performance. The New Zealand Herald reported that Thom York was ”sounding a little rough by the end on which he blamed jetlag.”
We can almost hear the collective intake of breath as local fans’ minds wander back to the past: specifically Radiohead’s cancelled Hail to the Thief tour in 2004, an incident that saw a Melbourne show canned due to throat issues! This is the band’s first visit since that fated tour. Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself this time round.
Radiohead kick off their Australian dates with a show in Brisbane this Friday. Hopefully Thom Yorke is drinking plenty of honey and lemon tea and resting his vocal cords.
Brisbane set:
Lotus Flower
Bloom
Airbag
The Daily Mail
Myxomatosis
The Gloaming
Separator
Reckoner
You and Whose Army?
Climbing Up the Walls
Nude
Staircase
There There
The National Anthem
Feral
Bodysnatchers
Encore:
Give Up the Ghost
Pyramid Song
Morning Mr. Magpie
Paranoid Android
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Encore 2:
15 Step
Everything in Its Right Place
(Unravel intro)
Encore 3:
Idioteque
(Extended due to Thom messing up the outro)
Sydney, Night 1
Bloom
Lucky
Morning Mr Magpie
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Myxomatosis
The Gloaming
Separator
Staircase
Videotape
Nude
Ful Stop
Lotus Flower
There There
Planet Telex
Feral
Bodysnatchers
Give Up The Ghost
Pyramid Song
These Are My Twisted Words
Reckoner
Paranoid Android
15 Step
Everything In Its Right Place
Idioteque
and
Sydney, Night 2
Lotus Flower
Bloom
Airbag
The Daily Mail
Myxomatosis
The Gloaming
Separator
Reckoner
You and Whose Army?
Climbing Up the Walls
Nude
Staircase
There There
The National Anthem
Feral
Bodysnatchers
Give Up the Ghost
Pyramid Song
Morning Mr. Magpie
Paranoid Android
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
15 Step
Everything in Its Right Place
Idioteque
I think it's been a while since they played that "Ful Stop" song. Maybe not. To be honest, I don't think I've ever listened to it.
With just those two Melbourne shows left, I think they'll simply play out what's already been played. If anything, the fans might get more songs but not new songs.
Ful Stop is their best new song imo, kinda bummed they didn't get it.
After seeing the Led Zep and Coldplay films it would have been AMAZING to have had a Radiohead film/pro shot in theatres D: maybe one day... they definitely have the song catalogue and audience to warrant one.
