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Radiohead play a lunchtime set live on WFNX from Fort Apache

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Radiohead played a nine-song set at Fort Apache Studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday 28 September, broadcast live on WFNX from noon to 1pm. Fort Apache is home to Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie, who produced Pablo Honey and mixed The Bends there.

The show opened the autumn round of the Boston station's lunchtime concerts from the studio, after a first round in the spring. The audience was WFNX listeners who had won tickets on the air, and each winner brought a friend and got lunch with the concert.

Radiohead are in the middle of their dates supporting R.E.M. Fourth in the set was “Lucky”, the band's song on the War Child album Help), played live in Boston for the first time.

Setlist

#Song
1Bones
2Just
3High and Dry
4Lucky
5Anyone Can Play Guitar
6Fake Plastic Trees
7Street Spirit (Fade Out)
8(Nice Dream)
9The Bends
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Which day was it?

Tapes and setlist sites have dated the broadcast 2 or 3 October 1995, and one tape August. The Boston Phoenix, WFNX's sister paper, listed it in its issue of that week, and WFNX's own advert there told listeners to tune in that Thursday, 28 September.

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