Thom Yorke plays “Daily Battles” live for the first time in Los Angeles

Thom Yorke came back alone for a second encore at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Tuesday 29 October and sat at the piano for the first live performance of “Daily Battles”, his song for Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn. This song is for the new Ed Norton film.¹ If he messed it up, he told the crowd, it was because he had never played it before. William Goodman, reviewing the night for Buzzbands.LA, describes a piano song with Yorke's falsetto climbing higher and higher. Relix has a gallery of the night.

The night was the first of two at the Greek that end Yorke's North American tour. Three songs in, during “Black Swan”, which he played on bass, he stopped the music and sang the song's sweariest line straight at the crowd, palms up; Goodman counts it the night's one near-political moment.

It was a cold night by Southern California standards, and Yorke told people to grab the person next to them in a communal manner¹.

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