Radiohead play through the Vancouver rain at Thunderbird Stadium

Radiohead played two hours at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver on 19 August in cold rain that grew heavier as the night went on. Adrian Mack, reviewing for the Georgia Straight, thought that without the weather it might have been the concert of the summer, and what struck him most was Thom Yorke. He gently told the boys at the front to dance less roughly, mugged for the camera in “You and Whose Army?” and called Jonny Greenwood “darling” as they faced each other for “Faust Arp”. Mack saw a man whose troubles were finally behind him.

Vancouver has known a different Yorke. The Straight recalled an acoustic show at the Railway Club in 1995, on the tour for The Bends, when hecklers drove him off the stage by the fourth song and, as local lore has it, he swore never to come back. The band returned in 2003, to the same stadium.

Each song had a two-colour scheme, blue-grey for “Talk Show Host” and green and gold for “Jigsaw Falling Into Place”, with fixed cameras trained on parts of the stage. Mack watched Jonny Greenwood wrestle with the awkward percussion of “Videotape”, lose himself in “Planet Telex” and hammer his guitar through “Bodysnatchers”, and gave Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway their due for holding the songs together.

“Just” wandered in tempo, and Jonny's guitar was too choked in the closing “Paranoid Android”. “Exit Music (For a Film)” brought a young crowd to complete silence.