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The Smile play their first Philadelphia show
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Photo: Raph_PH · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe first fans were outside Franklin Music Hall by 10am for The Smile's first Philadelphia show on Saturday 8 July, the night after Forest Hills. By the time the doors opened, shortly before seven, the queue ran out through the car park gates, along 7th Street, round the corner to 6th and back up towards Spring Garden.
Tom Skinner walked on first, then Jonny Greenwood, calling out hello, and Thom Yorke last, to the loudest cheer of the three. He gave a wave and sat down at the piano, his back to the room, to start “Pana-Vision”.
The 19 songs took in every track from the album except “Free In The Knowledge”, and six new ones. Josh Pelta-Heller, reviewing the night for WXPN, says Skinner's part in it should cure anyone of thinking the album is really Radiohead's tenth record. “Bending Hectic”, one of the new songs, came in the encore and built to a wall of distortion.
Setlist, Franklin Music Hall, Philadelphia, 8 July 2023
| No. | Song | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pana-Vision | – |
| 2 | Speech Bubbles | – |
| 3 | The Opposite | – |
| 4 | A Hairdryer | – |
| 5 | Waving A White Flag | – |
| 6 | Under Our Pillows | New |
| 7 | We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings | – |
| 8 | Colours Fly | New |
| 9 | Thin Thing | – |
| 10 | Teleharmonic | New |
| 11 | Skrting On The Surface | – |
| 12 | The Same | – |
| 13 | Read The Room | New |
| 14 | The Smoke | – |
| 15 | You Will Never Work In Television Again | – |
| 16 | Open The Floodgates | – |
| 17 | People On Balconies | New |
| 18 | Bending Hectic | New |
| 19 | Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses | – |