Radiohead have returned to the stage for the first time in seven years. Check out the setlist, footage, photos and more from their opening night in Madrid below.
It was just two months ago when Thom Yorke and co announced their long-awaited comeback tour with four nights a piece in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin across the autumn and winter. The band then revealed that their upcoming shows would be played in the round with them taking a “busking approach” to the setlist each night – having rehearsed over 65 songs from their back catalog.
Fans report that the band’s soundcheck for the opening gigs at Movistar Arena in Madrid saw them run through a full 28 song set. Their actual setlist was just three songs short of that, but still packed with fan favourites and some lesser-played deep cuts tonight (Tuesday November 4).
Taking to the stage in the round behind a see-through LED screen projecting images of the performance, the Oxford icons kicked off with ‘Let Down’ – which recently charted in the US after going viral on TikTok, much to the band’s surprise.
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From there on, the setlist leaned most heavily on tracks from 2003’s ‘Hail To The Thief’, which was recently revisited for the Yorke co-created Hamlet To The Thief play and archive live album. This included an outing of ‘Sit Down. Stand Up’ for the first time since 2004.
After that, the setlist was generous with material from ‘OK Computer’ (including the first performance of ‘Subterranean Homesick Alien’ since 2017) and ‘In Rainbows’, alongside a career-spanning banquet. The band are expected to change up their setlist regularly, with fans eagerly awaiting what they drop when they play Madrid again tomorrow.
