Radiohead continue tour, play "Where I End and You Begin" for first time in 9 years (setlists, videos)

Radiohead‘s North American tour is underway, and as they tend to do, they’ve been breaking out some fan faves that haven’t seen the light of day in a while. On the first night of tour in Miami, they treated their crowd to “The Tourist.” On night two in Atlanta, they broke out “House of Cards” and “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”

The tour continued in New Orleans on Monday (4/3), their first appearance in that city in 14 years. The setlist didn’t include anything super rare at that show (not that the set wasn’t stacked with favorites — “Fake Plastic Trees,” “Karma Police” “How to Disappear Completely,” “Nude,” “2 + 2 = 5,” “You and Whose Army?” and more were played), but last night’s (4/5) Kansas City show dug real deep. They broke out Hail to the Thief‘s “Where I End and You Begin” for the first time in nine years. Check out a video of that below.

The Kansas City show had other great cuts like “Airbag,” “15 Step,” “The National Anthem,” “Street Spirit (Fade Out),” “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi,” “Lucky,” “There There,” and more. Check out thefull setlists for both KC and NOLA below. Here’s a bit of Offbeat‘s glowing review of the NOLA show:

Yet Yorke’s most important instrument is always his voice, an ethereal layer that wrings as much emotion from the notes it hits as it does from the often-muddled words being sung. For Radiohead, lyrics are rarely as important as textures, and Yorke’s airy pipes are usually used to to that end. Nevertheless, there are a few tunes in which Yorke rises above the fray to become something more than another layer in the whole, and those offered some of last night’s most memorable moments. Whether it’s the lingering falsetto of “Nude,” the beautiful melancholy of a rare “How to Disappear Completely” or the hazy, reverb-laden sounds of “You and Whose Army?,” every song provided further proof that the singer’s voice is aging gracefully as he approaches 50.

Unsurprisingly, the rest of the band was in top form as well, with multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood, guitarist Ed O’Brien, bassist Colin Greenwood and drummer Phil Selway effortlessly maintaining the extremely high level of professionalism that Radiohead’s attention to detail requires. The group was also joined by auxiliary percussionist Clive Deamer, who was first added to the equation in 2012 to help bring the band’s rhythmically-complex King of Limbs album to life on stage. His extra kit was particularly handy when tracks from that record, such as “Bloom” or “Separator,” made an appearance, allowing the band to flesh out those tunes without watering them down or bringing on a drum machine.

The tour continues in Seattle on Saturday (4/8) and soon makes its way to the California desert for Coachella. If you won’t be at Coachella but still want to watch Radiohead’s set, you’re in luck. Their set is one of the ones that will stream live.

In case you missed it, read our review of night 1 in Miami.

Watch that “Where I End and You Begin” video and some more videos from the KC and NOLA shows:

Radiohead in New Orleans – 4/3/17 Setlist (via)
Daydreaming
Desert Island Disk
Ful Stop
2 + 2 = 5
Lucky
Separator
Videotape
The Numbers (‘Exit Music (For a Film)’ was on the printed setlist in this spot)
Let Down
Bloom
I Might Be Wrong
Lotus Flower
Identikit
The Gloaming
Idioteque
Bodysnatchers (‘There There’ was on the printed setlist in this spot)
How to Disappear Completely

Encore:
No Surprises
Burn the Witch
Morning Mr. Magpie
Nude
Karma Police (this was prior to ‘Nude’ on the printed setlist)

Encore 2:
You and Whose Army? (‘Give Up the Ghost’ was listed as an alternate in this spot on the printed setlist)
Fake Plastic Trees
Encore 3:
Paranoid Android (not on printed setlist)

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Radiohead in Kansas City – 4/5/17 Setlist (via)
Daydreaming
Desert Island Disk
Ful Stop
Airbag
15 Step
The National Anthem
Separator
All I Need
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Bloom
I Might Be Wrong
Identikit
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Idioteque
Where I End and You Begin (Tour debut; First time live since 2008)
Lucky
Present Tense

Encore:
Give Up the Ghost (‘Exit Music (For a Film)’ and ‘Glass Eyes’ were listed as alternatives on the printed setlist)
Burn the Witch
Reckoner
Fake Plastic Trees (‘Myxomatosis’ was listed as alternative on the printed setlist)
Nude

Encore 2:
You and Whose Army?
Karma Police (‘Everything in Its Right Place’ was listed as an alternative on the printed setlist)
Encore 3:
There There