Thom Yorke plays two new songs at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles

Thom Yorke played two new songs, “I Am a Very Rude Person” and “Saturdays”, at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday 12 December. Nigel Godrich, better known behind the mixing desk as Radiohead's producer, played bass on “I Am a Very Rude Person”, which Yorke introduced slowly by name.

DIY reported that “Two Feet Off the Ground” had its first live performance too; until then it had been heard only as the soundtrack to a Rag & Bone runway show in 2015.

It was the first of three solo dates this month, with the Fox Theater in Oakland on 14 December and Day for Night in Houston on 17 December to come. Godrich and the audiovisual artist Tarik Barri were on stage with him. Barri ran the projections on a three-panel screen live, from software he built himself that ties images to particular sounds. The 15 songs ended with “Interference” from Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, which XL Recordings reissued four days earlier. Flea, Yorke's bandmate in Atoms for Peace, watched from the balcony.

Yorke said little between songs. When the crowd cheered his arrival he told them, I haven't done anything yet!⁶ In “A Brain in a Bottle” he came in at the wrong place, stopped, and gave the room a long mock shrug and a bow. One of his few other remarks was My memory's not what it used to be.⁵ Grimy Goods has a review of the night.

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