Thom Yorke DJs at Low End Theory again and sings over Radiohead

Thom Yorke turned up unannounced at Low End Theory, the beat night at the Airliner club in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, on Wednesday 4 May and DJed with Flying Lotus, as he had there for the first time on 9 March. Jeff Weiss of the Los Angeles music blog Passion of the Weiss was there and wrote the night up the next day, with photographs by David Bartholow of Gorilla vs. Bear. Besides Radiohead songs and remixes of them, Yorke played records by the Odd Future collective and by Tyler, the Creator.

When he played Radiohead tracks he took the microphone and sang over them, improvising and scatting. Gigwise names two of the songs he sang, “Bloom”, from The King of Limbs, and “Reckoner”, from In Rainbows. That made it something like a karaoke night where the singer is the one on the record.

Thom Yorke and Flying Lotus back to back at Low End Theory, the Airliner, Los Angeles, 4 May 2011· Alpha Pupwatch on youtube →