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Radiohead Kick Off 2008 World Tour

Radiohead kicked off their 2008 world tour at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida last night (May 5).

The band are playing a string of US dates before heading to Europe this summer.

According to Ateaseweb.com, following an hour-long performance by support band Liars, the group took to the stage draped with two Tibetan flags, to play a 24-song set, featuring two encores and saw frontman Thom Yorke joking about the amount of plastic surgery cases he saw while in Miami ahead of the gigs.

"We spent three days at Miami Beach. ******* hell! What’s going on there?" he asked. "Some kind of reconstruction! for once I was proud to white, pale and English."

The band played almost all of new album 'In Rainbows', bizarrely omitting the record's first single 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place'.

There were also rare live outings for the likes of 'Optimistic' (from 2000's 'Kid A') and 'Bulletproof (I Wish I Was)' from 1995's 'The Bends'.

Radiohead played:

01. All I Need

02. Bodysnatchers

03. There There

04. Reckoner

05. The Gloaming

06. Morning Bell

07. Nude

08. How To Disappear Completely

09. 15 Step

10. Arpeggi

11. Idioteque

12. Bulletproof (I Wish I Was)

13. Where I End And You Begin

14. Airbag

15. Everything In Its Right Place

16. The National Anthem

17. Videotape

18. Optimistic

19. Just

20. Faust Arp

21. Exit Music (For A Film)

22. Bangers And Mash

23. House Of Cards

24. Street Spirit (Fade Out)

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The first show will be hard to top. Somebody in the crowd hit Thom with a shoe (I think) and he called the dude a "bloody skullcap" and walked off the stage for a little bit. That was entertaining. :)

Apparently the set list changes nightly, and I have a hard time believing they won't play "Paranoid Android". I'd love a few more from "The Bends", too.

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In case anyone is interested, here's the setlist. Bolded titles are the first performances for this tour.

1. All I Need.

2. There There.

3. Airbag

4. 15 Step

5. Nude

6. Sail To The Moon

7. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

8. Myxomatosis

9. Idioteque

10. Morning Bell.

11. Videotape

12. Optimistic.

13. Where I End and You Begin

14. You and Whose Army

15. Everything in its Right Place.

16. Bangers and Mash.

17. Bodysnatchers

Encore 1

18. Go Slowly

19. Talk Show Host.

20: Exit Music (For A Film)

21: Planet Telex

22: House of Cards

Encore 2

23: Paranoid Android

24: Reckoner

People have posted some things on YouTube, naturally:

"15 Step"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=neDzr2WvVts

"All I Need" (opener)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fwpgVbKPvDg

"Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3M7azY4Z1X8

"Optimistic"

"There There"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VK4BvKHZTqI

"Everything In Its Right Place"

"Airbag"

"Paranoid Android" (beware the screams...)

"You And Whose Army?"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c3KF4rE0y0c

"Idioteque"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=g69f2rPHXcw

"Planet Telex"

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