Radiohead play three Roundhouse nights and debut “Glass Eyes”

Radiohead closed three sold-out nights at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London, on Saturday 28 May, and on the middle night they played “Glass Eyes” live for the first time. It was the last song from A Moon Shaped Pool still waiting for the stage, so a week into the tour every track on the record has now been played live.

These were the band's first concerts in Britain since two nights at the 20,000-capacity O2 Arena in October 2012, and this time the room held about 3,000. On the first night people without tickets stood along the approach holding cardboard signs asking for spares, and the venue checked ID against the original buyers' names, so some who had bought resold tickets were turned away. By Saturday there were two queues, one of ticket holders and one of placards; one sign said its holder had come from Japan for a single ticket.

Each night began the way every show has since Amsterdam, with the first five songs of the album in order and Jonny Greenwood playing his guitar with a violin bow on “Burn the Witch” in place of the record's strings. After that no two sets were the same.

Thursday. The first night ran to about two and a half hours and brought “Exit Music (For a Film)”, “Myxomatosis” and “Planet Telex” into the tour, none of them played since November 2012. Ed O'Brien was the last one left on stage at the end of the main set, crouched over a device on the floor, working a sample of Thom Yorke's voice through “Everything in Its Right Place”. “Nude”, in the first encore, stopped seconds in when Greenwood's synthesiser part went wrong. Yorke peered at the equipment and laughed. Is it buggered?³ he asked, and they started again. Greenwood slipped once more in “You and Whose Army?”, and this time Yorke laughed and played on. Near the end, with requests coming from the floor, he ruled one out, 'Fake Plastic Trees' it is not¹. The Independent reviewed the first night.

Friday. Kate Bush and PJ Harvey were in the audience for the second night.

Saturday. The last night brought back “Like Spinning Plates”, unplayed since the O2 on 8 October 2012. Its odd moment came at the top of the first encore, when “Give Up the Ghost” fell apart after one verse. Paul Grace of Louder Than War says Yorke's looper had caught a scream from the crowd along with his opening line; Drowned in Sound says something in the crowd simply set him off laughing. Both agree he took it cheerfully, and the song got no further.

The three nights