Radiohead post “Staircase”, an unheard song from their Basement session

Radiohead have put up a film of “Staircase”, a song from the King of Limbs sessions that was left off the album and that nobody had heard until now, played at their session for From the Basement. It went up on Dead Air Space, the band's blog, on 21 June, with a note from Phil Selway that answers the first thing anyone watching will ask. And no, you're not seeing double. The doppelganger drummers are myself and Clive Deamer.¹⁵

Deamer is a session drummer who also plays with Portishead. Clive has long been one of my favourite drummers and so I was really excited when he agreed to perform with us.¹⁵

Thom Yorke plays a synthesiser and dances behind it. The film runs five minutes and 20 seconds, and is on the band's YouTube channel too. The band have never played the song live. For The Quietus, it is the first time the band's liking for Burial-style electronic music has come out of a band playing together.

From the Basement is Nigel Godrich's series of studio performances, which began as a podcast before it went to television; Radiohead made one for In Rainbows in 2008. This one has them playing the whole of The King of Limbs and more, and goes out around the world through BBC Worldwide from 1 July. The band have announced no concerts for the album, so for now the session is the only performance of it on the calendar.