- Music
- 20 Jul 17
Thom Yorke remarks: “A lot has been said, and in the end we played some music.”
In what could be interpreted as a defiant two fingers to Ken Loach, Roger Waters and other critics of them playing there, Radiohead treated fans in Tel Aviv last night to one of their longest sets in recent memory.
Enthused the man from the Jerusalem Post:" This was never going to be just your average rock concert in the park, due to the attention it had gained from the likes of the BDS movement and their attempts to have Radiohead cancel their show.
"And as Thom Yorke sang during 'Paranoid Android': 'When I am king, you will be first against the wall, with your opinion which is of no consequence at all.' The BDS movement, and in particular Roger Waters, had failed to convince Yorke to cancel this memorable and important concert.
"After noting that the next song was first played way back in Israel in 1993, they launched into Creep followed by The Bends, and There There.
"If anyone was waiting for Yorke to mention Waters, and to address the pressure they had to endure from fellow artists to cancel the show, then they would have been disappointed. As Yorke said before the final song of the night, Karma Police; 'A lot has been said, and in the end we played some music.'"
The sell-out Park HaYarkon crowd got to hear a whopping 28 tracks, which according to the ever vigilant SetlistFM folk panned out as follows:
Daydreaming
Lucky
Full Stop
Airbag
15 Step
Myxomatosis
All I Need
Pyramid Song
Everything in Its Right Place
Let Down
Bloom
Identikit
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
The Numbers
2 + 2 = 5
Bodysnatchers
Idioteque
Encore 1:
No Surprises
Nude
Like Spinning Plates
(You And Whose Army? Was… More )
Lotus Flower
Paranoid Android
Reckoner
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Encore 2:
Creep
The Bends
There There
Karma Police