the Date: Wednesday August 20, 2003
the Venue: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Columbia, MD)
(Photo credit to ComandZed and her Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/people/zara/)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks was the opening act. They were cool. I missed part of their set.
This was the first time I’d ever seen Radiohead in concert and it was AMAZING! The band consists of Thom Yorke (lvocals/guitar/piano), Jonny Greenwood (guitar/keyboard), Ed O'Brien (guitar), Colin Greenwood (bass), and Phil Selway (drums). I really got into them in college and must have played The Bends a million times.
Everything they played was fantastic and they chose a great setlist. Naturally, they played lots of tracks from Hail to the Thief
such as 2+2=5, Sit Down Stand Up, Sail to the Moon, Go To Sleep, Where I End and You Begin, We Suck Young Blood, There There, I Will, Myxomatosis, and Wolf at the Door. Yikes, that was almost the whole album! They played a few classics from Amnesiac 
(Pyramid Song, You and Whose Army, and Dollars and Cents) and Kid A
(Everything in Its Right Place, The National Anthem, How to Disappear Completely, and Idioteque). They also played some great O.K. Computer 
tunes(Airbag, Paranoid Android, and No Surprises). Man, they did all of these so well! And from The Bends 
they only played only Just, but that is one amazing tune. Surprisingly, they even played Creep from Pablo Honey
. Nice!All in all, the music was the closest to perfect any human could ever make. Each band member is really, really good at what he does. I still can’t believe that they were making such beautiful sound right in front of my eyes totally live! When they finished the second encore with Everything in Its Right Place, and as everyone slowly made their way off stage, Johnny remained, jamming out on his odd collection of self-designed musical devices, until he too made his way off, letting the magic of the beat carry the audience home. Awesome!
The complete setlist: The Gloaming / 2+2=5 / Sit Down, Stand Up / Where I End and You Begin / Airbag / Pyramid Song / Paranoid Android / A Wolf at the Door / Sail to the Moon / You and Whose Army? / There There / Go to Sleep / Dollars & Cents / We Suck Young Blood / Idioteque / Creep / The National Anthem / ENCORE 1 / I Will / Myxomatosis / Just / How to Disappear Completely / ENCORE 2 / No Surprises / Everything In Its Right Place
Delicious, delicious, delicious (Thom’s opening words to the crowd) . . .
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