Radiohead close Osheaga with their only Canadian show of 2016

Radiohead headlined the closing Sunday of Osheaga at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal on 31 July, their only show in Canada this year and their first there since the Centre Bell in June 2012. Postmedia's festival preview reported that their day had sold out faster than any in Osheaga's history.

“Radiohead is one of the acts we’ve been chasing since year one, so to finally get them, it’s amazing²,” said Nick Farkas, who founded the festival and runs concerts for the promoter Evenko. To make room for the band's set, the festival booked one act fewer on one of its main stages this year. “They wanted to play for two hours, and to me, there’s no such thing as too much Radiohead².”

“Let Down”, back in the set since Madison Square Garden on 26 July, opened the first encore. Nothing from The Bends was played, though every other album had at least one song in the set.

Radiohead went on after 8.30pm and, by Mike Gallagher's count for Live in Limbo, played for almost two and a half hours, about 15 minutes of it freed up when Disclosure cancelled that day.

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Radiohead at Osheaga, Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, 31 July 2016, the full set· Radioheadwatch on youtube →