.. the sky is falling in … (Radiohead Review: Sydney 2004).

Wow – where do I start? In 1998 I went and saw Radiohead, with limited expectations, and had my socks blown off …on Friday, I went and saw them again, with somewhat greater expectations. And again; though the show wasn’t flawless, it blew my socks off.

Thom was not that interactive with the crowd; and the band had problems getting the piano working. But all that aside the intensity and quality of the bands performance was amazing. I was not that familar with the Kid A, and Amnesiac material but it sure did come accross well.

I've included the setlist below. They did a variety of material from the three latest CDs – Hail to the Thief; Amnesiac; and Kid A; three from OK Computer; and a couple from The Bends. It was a good set list – yet missed a few of my favourites from ‘The Bends’. (the following night they played a few more from the Bends - [Nice dream]; Just; Fake Plastic Trees; No Surprises, but did miss Karma Police).

Highlights, definitely were Paranoid Android; Exit Music (for a film); Pyramid Song; Karma Police; Planet Telex and My Iron Lung, and along with those songs the bass-line of Climbing Up the Walls you felt right through you; the clapping through How to Disappear Completely.

Sydney April 23 2004 AD Sydney Entertainment Centre

setlist
01. there there
02. 2 + 2 = 5
03. myxomatosis
04. morning bell
05. kid a
06. my iron lung
07. backdrifts
08. pyramid song
09. i might be wrong
10. go to sleep
11. where i end and you begin
12. you and whose army?
13. climbing up the walls
14. the national anthem
15. exit music (for a film)
16. paranoid android
17. sit down. stand up.

encore 1
18. planet telex
19. sail to the moon
20. idioteque
21. how to disappear completely

encore 2
22. karma police
23. everything in its right place

Though the Radiohead concert tonight has been cancelled; Triple J will be airing a special acoustic set; and the bands 2003 not 1998, as I first mentioned, Glastonbury Festival set as well. Though not quite the concert we were hoping for, it still should be good. :-)

Follow the link here to the Sydney Morning Herald's review of the Sydney Shows.