Radiohead close Main Square in Arras on its one sold-out day

Radiohead closed the 2017 Main Square Festival at the Citadelle d'Arras on Sunday 2 July, and theirs was the only one of its three days to sell out. It was their one French date of the summer and their first Main Square since 2008. Xavier Averlant, reviewing the day for the French concert site ConcertAndCo, counted the festival's 13th edition its best attended yet.

They opened with three songs from A Moon Shaped Pool: “Daydreaming”, “Desert Island Disk” and “Ful Stop”. Averlant thought it a brave choice in front of a festival crowd, and to the band's credit. The sound was clear and precise, he wrote, and the crowd delighted. Of the older songs, he picked out “Climbing Up the Walls” and “Exit Music (For a Film)”.

He reckoned they had come to mark 20 years of OK Computer, and that the following they built then had stayed with them through everything since.