I'm going to see radiohead live in Dublin this august. What are they like live? What do they normally finish their shows with?

Probably the best show I've seen in my entire life. Despite the technical problems during the opening song (The Gloaming), it was truly something to behold. The light show alone was worth every penny. Stephen Malkmus brought out Thom's guitar for Just during the first encore...SM and the Jicks were one of the opening acts, but it's a shame nobody knew who they were. The encore was 6 songs long...and they ended with "There There". The show I went to was especially awesome because every album except Pablo Honey got at least two songs....hmm, I don't know what else to say. If you have any questions, I'll try to answer them as best I can remember...

I have tickets for New York I have tickets for New York I have tickets for New York ohemgee omgomgomgomg on my birthday wowow June 14th I am excited.

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I have tickets for New York I have tickets for New York I have tickets for New York ohemgee omgomgomgomg on my birthday wowow June 14th I am excited.

How did you possibly get them? I went on Ticketmaster the day they went on sale and my friend did the same at the exact time they went on and there were none left. Did you buy them in the presale?(Sorry if I come off a bit angry but I really really really really etc wanted to go to those shows)

Yes, from past experience, it's ALMOST impossible to get tickets to a 2000-ish Radiohead show unless you cash out your inheritance.

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it's ALMOST impossible to get tickets to a 2000-ish Radiohead show unless you cash out your inheritance

Or unless you use W.A.S.T.E

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Yes, from past experience, it's ALMOST impossible to get tickets to a 2000-ish Radiohead show unless you cash out your inheritance.

Or unless your dad is friends with everybody in the state. 3 phone calls, 10 tickets .

You don't need my puny e-certiicates then.

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I never said I had money.

Really.

Does anyone know what time tickets usually go on sale on the first day of availability on the radiohead site? because I'm not sure, and I couldn't find that info anywhere on the site? Anyways I need to be there as soon as their out, because the floor area sold out and I didn't get any and neither did my brother ugh. oh well...maybe ticketmaster will have some floor area tickets on saturday but I doubt it.

I am not going to lie; it is really hard to get tickets to their shows, Term. I went to see them the last time they toured the U.S. in the summer of 2006 and we got very lucky. Tickets went on sale to the general public on a Saturday at 10AM on Ticketmaster. I logged in at 8:00 and just kept refreshing the page until it was ready. At 10, I clicked and submitted and I was "in line" for 15 straight minutes, fingers crossed. Then we, luckily, got two tickets—it was general admission. I refreshed the page and tried to see how it was and by 10:30, everything was sold out. They are truly a band everyone wants to see live and it’s justified because no one compares to them live, no one.

Just try to be as prepared as you possibly can, good luck.

Yeah, you have to be lucky to get tickets. There are pre-sale tickets on ateaseweb.com , but they are gone as quick as they appear.

When I got tickets to the Cleveland show for the HTTT tour, they went on sale at 10 am and by 10:10 they were all gone, I think I got on Ticketmaster at 10:02 and got seats in the last row. I ended up hanging out in the general admission/field anyway, but it was great, even with the highest expectations.

hey typewriter, I think we were at the same show...Camden, NJ 2003 Hail to the Thief tour?? The Gloaming was the opener apparently in response to their first show after the New York City blackout ("The Gloaming" of course being about such an event according to Thom).

Also, I grabbed tickets for the 2000 Kid A/Amnesiac tour for the August 5th show at the Blossom Music Center near Akron about a month before the show. On my way to visit family in Michigan, i simply stopped at the venue and bam!, 2 tickets in the pavilion. You never know.

Hey Moses, how were they at the Blossom Music Center? I mean i know Radiohead was amazing but how was the venue? I am seeing them there on their U.S tour in August.

I wasn't sure where to put this since there are hundreds of Radiohead threads around here but this one seemed the most fitting:

Via an At Ease Article

But this sums it up...

Tad from The Hold Steady says...

“I think they’ve lost the plot. What are they doing? Where are they going? What’s happening? I don’t get it any more. They lost me. I still appreciate what they’re doing, or what they’re trying to do. But I think they’re trying too hard not to be Radiohead. That seems a little ridiculous to me”.

“I like them as a rock band, all the buttons and sequencing and stuff like that I don’t really care for. I’m a fan of rock music and what they’re doing now I don’t think is very good. When you have that kind of money, you can put on a great performance regardless of what you do. If you can’t go out and pick up your instruments and play a good show, that doesn’t do it for me. I don’t have any interest in that”.

uhh...have they seen a Radiohead concert??

also David Berman of Silver Jews says:

“To me, what I would like to hear from Radiohead would be something besides a feeling. I would like it if Radiohead would sing something that you could take with you.”

“You can go through the whole new Radiohead album and try and tell me what they’re saying, and all you’ll get over and over again is things are miserable, don’t try, things suck. And it’s all gray. There’s nothing there. Never before has there been a “greatest band in the world” who had so little to say about anything. The music-listening world has become such an aficionados world. People want to react to a poem or a painting, but they’re like “I’m not qualified. I’m not educated.” But they treat their personal preferences for music as if they weren’t anything but this complete monolithic subjectivity, and we talk to each other in that way: “They suck, and they’re the worlds greatest band.”"

Hah! Some easy PR I guess...First dissing Radiohead and then dissing music fans.

Thanks for sharing that mymindsblank. I had read the Silver Jews' quote elsewhere but hadn't seen that quote from Tad.

I think they are pretty much wrong on every bit of their statements. You sum it up quite best when you say "have they seen a Radiohead concert??" I saw them two summers ago and they were phenomenal. Sure, they're loaded but they have a ton of instruments on stage and they are the best live band, hands down. This was when they were still working out the songs off In Rainbows and I remember many highlights, including Thom Yorke playing on a small drum kit for "15 Steps."