Variety calls Radiohead almost co-headliners at PJ Harvey's Palladium show

Radiohead were almost co-headliners when they opened for PJ Harvey at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Tuesday 13 July, Ethlie Ann Vare writes in Variety, because they get far more radio play than Harvey does. Radiohead, she notes, call what they do angst music for angst people¹.

The Palladium was packed. Radiohead played for about half an hour, and Vare finds the three-guitar band far more aggressive live than on the single, with much of the set sounding like early-1980s power pop pushed through heavy distortion.

She hears a set full of possible singles, none of them as good as “Creep”, which she calls an anthem for the latest crop of disaffected teenagers and likens to the finest Peter Murphy song that never was.

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