Radiohead start a weekly run of concert films on YouTube

Radiohead are putting a concert film from the Radiohead Public Library, their online archive, on their YouTube channel once a week. They announced the series on Instagram on 8 April and promised to keep going until the coronavirus lockdown restrictions ease or they run out of shows. Which will be first? No-one knows.²

The first, Live From a Tent in Dublin, premiered at 10pm UK time on Thursday 9 April. It is cut from the band's three nights at Punchestown Racecourse in County Kildare on 6, 7 and 8 October 2000, a few days after Kid A came out. That year the band toured Europe with a tent of their own, an arena they could carry from town to town. Dilly Gent directed it and Quin Williams edited it. The film runs 54 minutes and ten songs, by the band's own running order: it opens with “The National Anthem”, keeps mostly to Kid A, takes in “Paranoid Android” on the way, and ends on “Everything in Its Right Place” and “Just”.

Live From a Tent in Dublin, October 2000, premiered 9 April 2020· Radioheadwatch on youtube →