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In Rainbows – From the Basement
Brett Turnbull, who directed Radiohead's 1994 Astoria film, was behind the camera again when they played In Rainbows for Nigel Godrich.
2008
one day in Covent Garden
In Rainbows had been out since October 2007, and Radiohead had not yet taken it on tour when they filmed it for From the Basement, Nigel Godrich's series. The band's own upload says it was recorded at The Hospital Club in London in April 2008, and Uncut reported that it was done in a single day. The tour opened in West Palm Beach on 5 May. David Barnard directed, and Godrich produced the session and mixed it.
Eight of the 14 songs are from the album and two from its second disc. The other four go back to Kid A and Hail to the Thief: “Optimistic”, “The Gloaming”, “Myxomatosis” and “Where I End and You Begin”. Its setlist is filed with the session in the live archive. “Where I End and You Begin” had only months left in the set. After the Tokyo International Forum that October it went unplayed until Kansas City in April 2017.
2008
VH1, then iTunes
The film went out first in America, on VH1 in May 2008. On 24 June, the day of the first of two nights at Victoria Park in London, it went on sale through iTunes as a video album of ten songs. The In Rainbows material stayed in and the four older songs were left out. Two of the performances went on the series' DVD that November, and in Japan the session was a DVD extra. The band's upload for At Home, on 4 June 2020, has all 14 songs.
2008–2009
two drummers on "Bangers + Mash"
The one to watch is “Bangers + Mash”, which Thom Yorke sings from behind a second drum kit set up beside Phil Selway's. The song itself was older than the record. The band first played it in Copenhagen in May 2006, and when it came out it was on the second disc, which went only to people who bought the boxed set.
It became a regular on the tour that followed, and the fans who filmed Radiohead in Prague the next summer caught it in Live in Praha. Two nights after Prague the band played it in Poznań, and the live archive has no later performance of it.
the film
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- Radiohead, “Radiohead - In Rainbows From the Basement (April 2008)”, YouTube, 4 June 2020, youtube.com (recorded at The Hospital Club in April 2008, the running order, the credits, Brett Turnbull as director of photography)
- Wikipedia, “In Rainbows – From the Basement”, en.wikipedia.org (VH1 in May 2008, the songs and their albums, the 2008 and 2020 running times)
- Daniel Kreps, “Radiohead rake in praise from Bono, release From the Basement”, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2008 (VH1 and iTunes, as cited by Wikipedia)
- Uncut, “Radiohead release live videos”, 26 June 2008, uncut.co.uk (filmed in a single day, the iTunes release)
- The MusicRadar team, “Radiohead video: Thom Yorke playing drums”, MusicRadar, 9 April 2008, musicradar.com (Yorke singing from a second kit beside Selway's)
- Angie Martoccio, entry on “Bangers + Mash” in Radiohead's best YouTube concert moments, Rolling Stone Australia, 23 July 2020, au.rollingstone.com (filmed before the North American tour, played through it)
- Wren Graves, “Radiohead's In Rainbows From the Basement streaming on YouTube”, Consequence, 4 June 2020, consequence.net (the Japanese DVD extra, the 2020 premiere)
- MusicRadar, as above, for Yorke on drums and bass in the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions
- This site's stories of January, June and August 2008 (the second disc in the boxed set, the iTunes release and its ten songs, Victoria Park, the series DVD), and the live archive's setlists for 2006 to 2017 (Copenhagen, West Palm Beach, Tokyo, Poznań, Kansas City)