Radiohead, Embarcadero Marina Park S, San Diego, Mon., 26 Jun 2006, 7:00pm
Title (Album, Track)
- There There (07, 09) -- good mellow opening
- 2 + 2 = 5 (07, 01) -- get ready to rock
- *15 Step (08a, 01) -- a slow-ish song
- Morning Bell (04, 09) -- yes, the Kid A version, played similarly to the live album I Might Be Wrong
- Kid A (04, 02)
- *Arpeggi (08a, 04) -- the arpeggios for which the song is likely named sound a bit like those in Moby's "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters"
- *Videotape (08a, 10)
- The National Anthem (04, 03) -- again, similarly played as in IMBW, with sound effects like the Thermal Visor in Metroid Prime
- *Big Ideas (Nude) (08a, 03) -- a slow-ish song with a choral/organ opening
- *Down Is the New Up (08b, 02)
- Paranoid Android (03, 02) -- damn near everyone sang along on this one
- *All I Need (08a, 05) -- I didn't note a song here when I was making the running set list on my phone, but maybe I missed it if it's a short song, and maybe I thought Thom was just messing around before the next song
- The Gloaming (07, 08)
- You and Whose Army? (05, 04)
- Idioteque (04, 08) -- played as in IMBW, with a dance similar to when they performed on SNL shortly after the Kid A release
- *Bangers 'n' Mash (08b, 07) -- an upbeat song with driving guitar and drums
- How to Disappear Completely (04, 04) -- and then they disappeared, but just for a bit....
Encore 1:
- *House of Cards (08a, 08)
- Street Spirit (Fade Out) (02, 12) -- Ben was waiting for a song from the bends, he asked for it
- Just (02, 07) -- another treat for us long-time fans
- Everything in Its Right Place (04, 01)
Encore 2:
- *4 Minute Warning (08b, 08)
- Lucky (03, 11)
Albums:
- 02 the bends
- 03 OK Computer
- 04 Kid A
- 05 Amnesiac
- 07 Hail to the Thief
- 08a In Rainbows (forthcoming album) *new song details courtesy of 58hours.com, especially the 26 Jun 2006 San Diego show set list, also confirmed at greenplastic.com
- 08b In Rainbows Bonus Disc
In downtown San Diego, near Seaport Village, is the standing-room only (or, lawn apt for picnic blankets (until the main act arrives on stage)) Embarcadero Marina Park South, where Viejas Entertainment hosts Concerts @ Bayside. It really is right at the San Diego Bay. You could probably just boat over by the stage and hear the concert. It's there that I saw Radiohead for the first time, and probably not the last. This tour is a pre-release tour for the yet unnamed, upcoming album. (Ben believed the name to be the name of one of the new songs, Down Is the New Up, reflected in the T-shirts with downward-pointing white arrows set in upward-pointing black arrows (or barns/hangars/houses like in the shirt I bought); that title turned out to be one of the bonus disc tracks). The concert was a good mix of old and new except with nothing from the pablo honey album. It's at this concert that I realized how much Radiohead is influenced by jazz, since much of the music is about the mood and heavy on the bass and rhythm, with sometimes incomprehensible lyrics (electronically modified that way on purpose), where the sound of the words is more important for some songs. The rockin' songs rocked, and the groovin' songs grooved. Plus you get to see Thom Yorke wobble his head about and dance like Michael Stipe (as Ben noted). The highlights for me were the dynamic rockers "2 + 2 = 5," "Paranoid Android," and "Just," and the new songs sound like an extension of Hail to the Thief. But, of course, I also appreciated the grooves of the slow and deliberate electronic songs. The opening act was Deerhoof, experimental rock with a native Japanese female lead singer, like, I don't know, maybe the 5.6.7.8's fused with Sonic Youth or something. The concert T-shirts from w.a.s.t.e. (Radiohead's merchandiser) are made sweatshop-free in the USA from 100% organic cotton. Yea, progressive bands!
