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Watch, read: all the action from Radiohead @ 93 Ft East

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by Kev Kharas
Artists: Radiohead

As you’ll probably know, Radiohead were in London last night, playing a relatively tiny, announced-at-the-last-minute show just off Brick Lane.

As events unfolded and queues swelled the venue was switched after police concerns over the safety arrangements, from the Rough Trade store in Dray Walk to 93 Feet East on Brick Lane’s main ‘stretch’.

This meant the set’s start time was pushed back from 8pm, the band eventually taking to the stage at around 10.20pm for those in the room and the audience watching the performance unravel on a live webcast.

Unable to get there ourselves, we managed to barter this eyewitness - gasp! - account from DiS message boarder Claire Roberts.

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"I only got there at 6pm and managed to wrangle my way in with a combination of two friends at the front of the queue and some extremely heavy flirting with the bouncers. I would feel bad but seeing as it was one of the best nights I can remember of my short life I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. (I'm so tired of trying to justify myself for doing this, if anyone had the opportunity to see their favourite band in an extremely intimate venue, a once in a lifetime type thing I refuse point blank to believe they would pass up that opportunity because it might upset someone else. You have to be selfish sometimes when it comes to stuff you love.)

"The moving [from Rough Trade to 93 Feet East] was the most depressing part anyway. The people who had been at the front of the queue since the early hours of the morning no longer seemed to matter as the crowd just piled into the grounds of 93 feet East. That was what probably pissed everyone off most about the whole thing, the order which everyone had been accustumed to for the past five plus hours had just turned to shit. It was really annoying.

"But yeah, the actual gig. It was just immensely perfect. I came close to tears twice, which I have never had happen to me at a gig before. Everyone's spirits were high despite the fact that we had been fucked about earlier on with venue moving. All of the things that had gone wrong just seemed to melt away as soon as the first note was played on '15 Step'. Without a doubt the greatest gig I have ever been to, listening to In Rainbows on my way into work this morning sent shivers down my spine. I just feel lucky."

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Unsatiated? Watch the entire show below, as Radiohead rattle and hum their way through the entirety of In Rainbows in chronological order to a few hundred people, before delving into their not incosiderable past for a five-song encore.

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’15 Step’


‘Bodysnatchers’


‘Nude’


‘Weird Fishes/Arpeggi’


‘All I Need’


‘Faust Arp’


‘Reckoner’


‘House of Cards’


‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place’


‘Videotape


‘Up On a Ladder’


‘You and Whose Army’


‘The National Anthem’


‘My Iron Lung’


‘The Bends’

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Photographs will follow presently. Patience...


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15 steps??

lolnoob

*still jealous* :(


i dont get why claire's so pissed off

about the venue change? the people who queued (and thoe who queue jumped) got in, but when does being the front of the queue mean that you'll definitely be at the front of the venue? people always push as far forward as they want to be


i wasn't pissed off personally

but i said that everyone else probably was. plus it just meant that it took the security ages to clear the area cos people without wristbands were trying to hide in the venue. and the way they were letting people in would imply that the people at the front would have more of an ability to walk to the front, would it not? if you're at the back it's a lot harder (nigh on impossible for some, especially at this kind of gig) to push to the front.


yup

as i said, i wasn't annoyed myself.


ok own up

who shouted LET'S GO FOR A CURRY! at the beginning of Jigsaw falling into place?!


he's in the epic thread

the near-600 post one.


What's the link

for that?


i did have the curry

yes it was indeed me, i'm astounded that such a comment has recieved such aclaim!

we left the venue and proceeded straight across the street, it was a lovely chicken jalfrazi!

what a night.