An edition of Radiohead - 2000 07 04 - Grosser Sendesaal Des SFB, Berlin
Radiohead - 2000 07 04 - Grosser Sendesaal Des SFB, Berlin
by Radiohead
on October 3rd, 2025 | History
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Radiohead's 2nd concert in Berlin, on July 4, at a venue that held about 1,000 people, is the acknowledged high point of the tour.
More than that, it's one of the all time great Radiohead shows, in which the band was still drawing on the anxious energy of playing scores of new songs to a mostly unprepared audience. And yet, by this point in the tour, they also had an obvious confidence in their material and didn't feel as obligated to couch unfamiliar songs with reliable greatest hits.
Eleven out of the twenty-two songs played that night were new, including four out of the first five songs. The version of "In Limbo" is especially transcendent. And then there's the staggering take on "Kid A" that absolutely destroys the version on the album.
The studio take is a low-key hum, like a robot voice sending a distress signal from the deepest reaches of inner space. Live, however, Radiohead made "Kid A" sound like an excursion into outer space, a positively huge and demented sonic explosion punctuated with a wholly unexpected harmonica breakdown, like Bruce Springsteen discovering "Another Green World." (Extract from the book 'This Isn't Happening Radiohead's Kid A And The Beginning Of The 21st Century' by Steven Hyden)
More than that, it's one of the all time great Radiohead shows, in which the band was still drawing on the anxious energy of playing scores of new songs to a mostly unprepared audience. And yet, by this point in the tour, they also had an obvious confidence in their material and didn't feel as obligated to couch unfamiliar songs with reliable greatest hits.
Eleven out of the twenty-two songs played that night were new, including four out of the first five songs. The version of "In Limbo" is especially transcendent. And then there's the staggering take on "Kid A" that absolutely destroys the version on the album.
The studio take is a low-key hum, like a robot voice sending a distress signal from the deepest reaches of inner space. Live, however, Radiohead made "Kid A" sound like an excursion into outer space, a positively huge and demented sonic explosion punctuated with a wholly unexpected harmonica breakdown, like Bruce Springsteen discovering "Another Green World." (Extract from the book 'This Isn't Happening Radiohead's Kid A And The Beginning Of The 21st Century' by Steven Hyden)
Publish Date
2000-07-04
Publisher
Unknown
Language
English
Previews available in: English
Subjects: Live Show