Summary of the first leg of Radiohead North American Tour

May 21st, 2008 by admin

We decided to sum up what happened in the first 8 live shows of the Radiohead In Rainbows Tour! To create this article we had to take a look at the Radiohead Tour database.

As you obviously understood the tour is dedicated to the last album, In Rainbows. In the first 8 gigs they played In Rainbows tracks 75 times. HTTT and Ok Computer are second with 21. Notice that no songs from Pablo Honey ever played.

Radiohead played all songs from In Rainbows, 7/10 songs from Kid A, 7/12 songs from Ok Computer:

In Rainbows: 10/10 tracks played
Kid A: 7/10 tracks played
Ok Computer: 7/12 tracks played
The Bends: 7/12 tracks played
Hail to the Thief: 6/14 tracks played
Amnesiac: 4/10 tracks played
Pablo Honey: 0/12 tracks played

All I Need opened the shows 7 times while 15 Step opened only one show! House of Cards was preferred as a show closer (3 times), while Paranoid Android came second:

House of Cards: 3 times
Paranoid Android: 2 times
Reckoner: 2 times
Street Spirit: Once
Idioteque: Once

From all songs that Radiohead soundchecked there are 8 that they didn’t include in the setlists:

The Rip (portishead cover) was soundchecked 2 times but never played
You Really Got Me (kinks cover) was soundchecked once but never played
2+2=5 was soundchecked once but never played
Down is the New Up was soundchecked once but never played
Knives out was soundchecked once but never played
No Surprises was soundchecked once but never played
Punch up at a Wedding was soundchecked once but never played
An Undefined song (obviously a brand new track) was soundchecked once but never played

And here are some other averages: