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BBC2's Later special replays Radiohead's 1995 “The Bends”
first posted on Treefingers by Miro · rewritten for the archive
BBC2 showed a Later with Jools Holland special, Cool Britannia, at 11.35pm on Friday 18 June, and Radiohead playing “The Bends” in 1995 was part of it.
The special was built around the BBC's DVD Later... Cool Britannia, out since 7 June, which gathers 34 performances by British acts on the show from Blur, Pulp and Oasis to Coldplay. “The Bends” is its only Radiohead track, and the same performance BBC2 showed.
It comes from the band's first appearance on Later, recorded at BBC Television Centre on 16 May 1995 and first shown on 27 May, when they also played “High and Dry”.
A viewer's report of the clip has Thom Yorke still blond and hyperactive, Ed O'Brien dressed all in black, Jonny Greenwood taking a lot of stress out on his guitar, Phil Selway still with hair, and the cameras never once on Colin Greenwood.
the night
Later With Jools Holland, BBC Television Centre, London, 16 May 1995· ROCKTVwatch on youtube →