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Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood fill Glastonbury's TBC slot
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Photo: wonker · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood played the Park Stage at Glastonbury on Friday, in a slot the bill listed only as TBC. Radiohead were at work on a new album and had not played in Britain since the Reading and Leeds festivals at the end of August 2009. Michael Eavis, the festival's organiser, brought them on without naming them. There's two superstars… I'll not name them but they're right here.
1 Hi, my name is Thomas Yorke
1, Yorke said as he walked out.
He began alone with three songs from The Eraser, his 2006 solo album, and Greenwood joined him for the fourth, “Cymbal Rush”. Word went round Worthy Farm while they played, and Clash reported that the crowd kept growing, though plenty of the festival, in its 40th year, missed it. From there it was Radiohead songs, mostly acoustic, and “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” closed the nine-song set.
Setlist
| # | Song | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Eraser | Yorke alone |
| 2 | Harrowdown Hill | Yorke alone |
| 3 | Black Swan | Yorke alone |
| 4 | Cymbal Rush | with Greenwood from here |
| 5 | Weird Fishes/Arpeggi | – |
| 6 | Pyramid Song | – |
| 7 | Idioteque | – |
| 8 | Karma Police | – |
| 9 | Street Spirit (Fade Out) | – |