Live archive · 2000
Tredegar House, Newport, South Wales
| Venue | Tredegar House |
|---|---|
| City | Newport, South Wales |
| Tour | Kid A Tour |
| Opening act | Sigur Rós |
the performance
Friday 1 September 2000· TheWalrusWasPaulwatch on youtube →
the whole concert(1)
Notes
Radiohead played their first gig on their European tent tour in Newport. England. Sigur Rós supported the band. Radiohead debuted the Idioteque and I Might Be Wrong was played for the first time since their gig in Milan.
in the news
- 15 August 2000Journalists get the first hearing of Kid ASeven weeks before release, the press in America and Britain have heard the new album, and the first reports have the band deep in electronics.
- 24 August 2000Radiohead rule out singles and videos for Kid ARadio stations will pick their own tracks and short clips will stand in for promo films, as the band step away from the usual album campaign.
- 24 August 2000Radiohead post the Kid A sleeve on radiohead.comThe cover of the new album is out, put online by the band themselves five weeks before the record reaches the shops.
- 1 September 2000 · the nightTredegar House, Newport
- 1 September 2000Newport hears “Idioteque” as Radiohead's British tent tour opensThe first British tour since 1997 put the unreleased album in front of a home crowd, which saved its loudest cheers for the songs it already knew.
- 4 September 2000The Bends climbs to number two in Virgin's all-time albums pollOnly the Beatles now stand above Radiohead in Virgin's poll of the best albums ever made, and two of the band's records are in its top five.
memories of this night
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