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Radiohead's Basement session goes up on YouTube in full
XL Recordings has put the whole of The King of Limbs: Live From The Basement on Radiohead's YouTube channel, to be watched anywhere in the world, though Spin says only for a limited time. The programme has been on television since July, sold abroad by BBC Worldwide and shown in the US by Palladia. According to Spin, a copy that reached the web on 10 July was soon taken down, so this is the first time the full session has been officially online.
The hour, produced by Nigel Godrich for his From the Basement series, is the band's second, after one around In Rainbows in 2008. It was filmed at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, with Clive Deamer, Portishead's drummer, on a second kit beside Phil Selway. They play all eight songs of The King of Limbs and two that are not on it. “Staircase” was posted on its own in June. “The Daily Mail”, here with a brass section of seven, was first played by Thom Yorke alone at the piano at a Green Party benefit at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in February 2010, the same night “Give Up the Ghost” was first heard.
With no audience to play to, the band break between songs to sit down with some tea, and can be seen talking over what to play next.
Running order
| # | Song |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bloom |
| 2 | The Daily Mail |
| 3 | Feral |
| 4 | Little by Little |
| 5 | Codex |
| 6 | Separator |
| 7 | Lotus Flower |
| 8 | Staircase |
| 9 | Morning Mr Magpie |
| 10 | Give Up the Ghost |
The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement, Maida Vale Studios, 2011, the session in full· Radioheadwatch on youtube →