Radiohead headline Bonnaroo and dedicate “Supercollider” to Jack White

Radiohead headlined the Friday night of Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee, on 8 June, and in the first encore Thom Yorke dedicated “Supercollider” to Jack White. This song is for Jack White. We saw him yesterday. A big thank you to him, but we can't tell you why. You'll find out.⁴

White's label and studio, Third Man Records, is in Nashville, a little over an hour away. Relix took Yorke's words as a hint that the band had recorded with White there; the Spanish site efeeme guessed at a vinyl single in Third Man's Blue Series, which White produces.

The set ran to 25 songs over more than two hours, from “Bloom” to “Paranoid Android”, and leaned on The King of Limbs and In Rainbows, with the unreleased “Identikit” in the middle of it. “Everything in Its Right Place” began with a snatch of “True Love Waits”, and “Reckoner” went to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who headline tomorrow.

The set went out live on Bonnaroo's YouTube channel as the last act of the Friday webcast, and Jon Pareles, writing in The New York Times, called it the high point of the festival.

Their first Bonnaroo headline set, on 17 June 2006, leaned on older songs, and Yorke said afterwards it was the best show they had played in years. Ashley Capps, whose AC Entertainment organises the festival, had tried to book them again for 2011. We had hoped to get them last year but the scheduling did not pan out. [Their] 2006 performance was one of the truly epic Bonnaroo moments.⁷

The band played beneath a dozen LED screens, rearranged for every song. Yorke asked the crowd of about 80,000 where they were sleeping, joking that lying face down in the mud in a field is a British tradition. Thanks for letting us set up your Friday night², he told them near the end.

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