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Radiohead and Liars #1

Posted by rocky on May 10, 2008 at 4:30pm
A short reflection with more to follow.Radiohead's opening with All i need surely was unexpected, and for the first few songs the microphone used by Thom was turned up quite nicely and you could hear a lot of detail in the voice. This happened a lot during the show. "people have been talking", Thom's vocal performances have been great lately. Sail to the moon and airbag of course. There there, of course! During the concert there were stunning pairings of songs which I'm sure lots of people were aware of and inspired by in the audience.... after Idioteque, Morning Bell was played, sending shockwaves through the audience! That sort of thing always gets us, to pair songs together like on the album. ; ) Back in the day I read and it looked like they used to pair Climbing up the walls and No Surprises which must have been just as good. Then the thunderous performance of Where I End and You Begin was followed, really quickly, by its twin, that being Optimistic as they have a similar idea explored in each, in the lyrics anyway! The overhead lights, which used really vibrant colors, flashed huge and red through Optimistic. ....More later.



Liars set was great. I brought field glasses and used them to observe their musicianship more closely than I could squint my eyes. Several songs I knew, three or four by name, but some I didn't. One song used a drum machine or drum programmer of some kind with fantastic sounds used within it. The drumset was exciting to hear, turned up very loud, but when scoping out the drummer the slightly muddied rumble made more sense as I could connect what drum he struck with the sound that spat through the amphitheatre.The Tibetian or Indian songs played before Liars and after Radiohead were really really exciting. They were clear, obviously not from an mp3 player ; ) .... Hopefully like a few years ago someone will post on Dead Air Space explaining what those were and where to find them.
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