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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Black
Tuesday - Sept 11, 2001 Remembered
Sept 11 is here again. A grim day when jets crashed into the World Trade
Centre in New York, five years ago. As far as we can tell only one recording
by Radiohead, only hours after the incident, has been circulated. This
is the show at the Parkbuehne Wuhlheide in Berlin, Germany. Clearly everyone's
sympathies are with the injured. Thom Yorke is grappling for words. Trying
to make the music relevant after such great pain and sorrow, half a world
away.
Much of that emphathy has surely receded since 2001. Much of that empathy
has not been extended to the peoples of the rest of the world. We've seen
too many wars, too many killings, too many inhuman acts and a solution
still cannot be found. Only the music and the memory of your feelings
will always be with you from that day. Good karma then that it was Radiohead
we remember.
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Radiohead
Black Tuesday
[Head/2CD]
Live at Parkbuehne Wuhlheide, Berlin, Germany, Sept 11, 2001.
The Koran says it
was on a Tuesday that Allah created the darkness. On Tuesday, Sept 11,
2001, two jets slammed into the World Trade Center in New York. Half a
world away in Berlin, Radiohead were readying to go onstage at the Parkbuehne
Wuhlheide. Over to Thom Yorke.
"So who here
doesn’t know about it?" he asks apprehensively after finishing
a breathless Pyramid Song from the Amnesiac album.
"Everybody knows
what I’m talking about?" There’s silence for a response.
"Dunno what
I’m talking about? You don’t know about the aeroplanes in America?
You don’t know…" his voice trails and someone shouts out
"shit" with the force of a fullstop.
"Somebody tell
‘em," retorts Yorke with no anger.
"I’ll tell
ya. Well I can’t remember it all now… two… two jets...
two ahhh… three… I dunno I’ve lost count… four jets?
How many?" he turns to guitarist Ed O’Brien who tells him it
is four.
"Four jets,"
Yorke continues, "One crashed into the Pentagon. Two crashed into
the World Trade Centre. One got shot out the sky by the Americans…"
he turns to O’Brien, "You’re saying it crashed as well?"
The crowd has taken
all this quietly and now someone hollers "bullshit" much like
the legendary "Judas" exclamation that got Dylan going in ’66
at the Manchester Free Trade Hall. But tonight there’s a great sadness
in Radiohead’s performance.
"So… that’s
why, y’know, things are a little mute tonight," Yorke apologises.
"I’m sorry
about that. This is called Paranoid Android."
Thom Yorke knows
Radiohead are being recorded for an upcoming live album. But the band
can’t muster the energy to rock ‘n’ roll. Instead they
are reeling with their longer, moodier numbers like Dollars & Cents,
Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box, I Might Be Wrong and the aforementioned
Pyramid Song from Amnesiac, itself an ambient-like, mood-altering collection
of songs.
The performance is
hesitant at first. The band had heard about the attacks in New York but
the show must go on. And, in a perverse way, Radiohead were the perfect
band to reflect the hurt. Thom Yorke’s voice is akin to the pleasure
of pain. There’s an alchemy in his performance to transform the ordinary
into pain. The songs off OK Computer tonight sound strained, tired. Karma
Police, Climbing Up The Walls and No Surprises all echo of newfound tragedy.
But things really
sink in after Radiohead play Paranoid Android. Suddenly, you realise how
much feeling there is in the song’s line "God loves his children" as the guitars rev to life. Disc Two continues with Idioteque and Everything
In It’s Right Place from Kid A, then melancholic versions of Like
Spinning Plates and Lucky.
There’s also
plenty of uncertainty on that fateful night about the tragedy. Before
playing the melodic You And Whose Army, originally an attack on England’s
premier Tony Blair, Yorke instead angles the song against the attackers
as a show of defiance. He announces with some unease, "This…
all right, well eh… is for the Bush Administration, I guess."
Then the band follow that with Kid A’s How To Disappear Completely
and leave the stage.
Brought back for
an encore, Radiohead play a b-side, Talk Show Host, then close the show
with the song from The Bends that transformed Radiohead into something
more than a pop band, Street Spirit. Yorke reminds himself of the gravity
of the situation.
"This is hoping…George
Bush doesn’t declare World War III."
"Cracked
eggs dead birds
Scream
as they fight for life
I can
feel death, can see its beady eyes
All
these things into fruition
All
these things we’ll one day swallow whole
And
fade out again and fade out again…"
Sound quality is
great for an audience recording. - Michael Cheah
Click on the highlighted
tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality, stereo MP3s - sample
rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never
been officially released.
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