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“Fake Plastic Trees” and “The Bends” return in Mexico City
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Photo: deepskyobject from Saint Petersburg, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsRadiohead brought back “Fake Plastic Trees” on the first of their two nights at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, 3 October, and “The Bends” on the second. Neither had been played on this tour, and both were last heard at the band's Haiti benefit in Los Angeles in January 2010.
They join other old songs back on this tour: “Creep” in Paris in May and “Let Down” at Madison Square Garden in July, its first outing since 2006.
On the first night Thom Yorke strummed the opening of “Fake Plastic Trees” on acoustic guitar to start the second encore.
The second night had “The Bends” late in the main set. Its first encore opened with “How to Disappear Completely”, played only once before on the tour, at the second Amsterdam night in May. “Fake Plastic Trees” closed the second encore, and then the band came back a third time to play “Creep”, which was not on the written setlist.
Setlists
| # | 3 October | 4 October |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burn the Witch | Burn the Witch |
| 2 | Daydreaming | Daydreaming |
| 3 | Desert Island Disk | Desert Island Disk |
| 4 | Ful Stop | Ful Stop |
| 5 | My Iron Lung | 2 + 2 = 5 |
| 6 | The National Anthem | The National Anthem |
| 7 | All I Need | All I Need |
| 8 | Pyramid Song | No Surprises |
| 9 | Bloom | Bloom |
| 10 | Separator | Lotus Flower |
| 11 | Identikit | Identikit |
| 12 | The Numbers | The Numbers |
| 13 | Bodysnatchers | Bodysnatchers |
| 14 | Feral | The Bends |
| 15 | Nude | Nude |
| 16 | Everything in Its Right Place | Everything in Its Right Place |
| 17 | Idioteque | Idioteque |
| Encore 1 | Let Down | How to Disappear Completely |
| – | Present Tense | Present Tense |
| – | Reckoner | You and Whose Army? |
| – | Planet Telex | Paranoid Android |
| – | Weird Fishes/Arpeggi | There There |
| Encore 2 | Fake Plastic Trees | Exit Music (for a Film) |
| – | Creep | Fake Plastic Trees |
| Encore 3 | – | Creep |
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Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, 4 October 2016· Angela Cortéswatch on youtube →