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The Smile headline the first night of Pitchfork in Chicago
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Photo: Raph_PH · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Smile closed the first night of Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, Chicago, on Friday 21 July, and people across the park got up from their blankets to give the band a standing ovation before they had played a note. Selena Fragassi, reviewing for the Chicago Sun-Times, put the park at about half full. It was the last night of their North American summer tour, which began with two nights in Mexico City a month ago.
Jonny Greenwood took a violin bow to his guitar on “Waving A White Flag” so hard that he broke the strings, and “Bending Hectic”, the single out in June, climbed to its peak under a dizzying light show. Thom Yorke, Greenwood and the drummer Tom Skinner played about 75 minutes and 15 songs, opening on “Pana-vision” with Robert Stillman's saxophone and ending, as they had in Cleveland ten days earlier, with Yorke's solo song “Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses”.
Several of the songs were new, and the band confirmed they are working on the follow-up to their first album.
Setlist
| # | Song |
|---|---|
| 1 | Pana-vision |
| 2 | The Opposite |
| 3 | A Hairdryer |
| 4 | Waving A White Flag |
| 5 | Under Our Pillows |
| 6 | We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings |
| 7 | Colours Fly |
| 8 | Thin Thing |
| 9 | Skrting On the Surface |
| 10 | The Same |
| 11 | The Smoke |
| 12 | Friend Of A Friend |
| 13 | You Will Never Work In Television Again |
| 14 | Bending Hectic |
| 15 | Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses |