Atoms for Peace play “Follow Me Around” and Joy Division in Oakland

Atoms for Peace, Thom Yorke's band, played two nights at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Wednesday and Thursday, and both times the crowd called them back after the house lights had gone up. On Wednesday they came back to end with “Follow Me Around”, a Radiohead song that has never been released, with the full band; on Thursday they closed with a cover of Joy Division's “Love Will Tear Us Apart”. Radiohead played “Ceremony” by New Order, the band Joy Division became, in their Thumbs Down webcast in November 2007.

Both nights, with Flying Lotus opening, began with the nine songs of The Eraser in album order, before Yorke came back alone with a different set each night. On Wednesday he played a new song, “Lotus Flower”, then acoustic versions of “Like Spinning Plates” and “Everything In Its Right Place”. Spinning Platters reviewed that night. On Thursday, moving between upright piano and acoustic guitar, he opened with “Open the Floodgates”, an unreleased song, and Nigel Godrich, Radiohead's producer and in the band on stage, had to remind him of the words. I'm dying out here⁴, Yorke joked. The East Bay Express has the review.

On Thursday the band had gone off at about 10.50pm and recorded music was playing, but the sold-out hall kept cheering for about five minutes until they came back for the Joy Division song.

Setlist, Wednesday 14 April

Setlist, Thursday 15 April