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Radiohead bring back “Like Spinning Plates” at the O2
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Photo: Raph_PH · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsRadiohead brought “Like Spinning Plates” back on 25 November, the last of their four nights at the O2 Arena in London. It was the song's first outing of the tour, and its first anywhere since TD Garden in Boston on 29 July 2018, 2,676 days earlier.
The Amnesiac song grew out of an early recording of “I Will”, which came out in a different arrangement on Hail to the Thief in 2003. Thom Yorke has told how he heard that take played in reverse from the next room, liked the melody better backwards, and spent the night learning to sing along to the reversed tape.
Two more Amnesiac songs were in the main set: “You and Whose Army?”, played every night of the tour so far, and “Pyramid Song”, which has come round on alternate nights. “Airbag”, second in the set, needed two goes after Jonny Greenwood began it without retuning his guitar from drop D.
“Like Spinning Plates” came fifth in a seven-song encore, after “Present Tense”, to disbelief from fans posting from the arena.
Setlist, the O2 Arena, London, 25 November 2025
| # | Song | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 + 2 = 5 | – |
| 2 | Airbag | False start |
| 3 | Jigsaw Falling Into Place | – |
| 4 | All I Need | – |
| 5 | Ful Stop | – |
| 6 | Nude | – |
| 7 | Reckoner | – |
| 8 | The Bends | – |
| 9 | Separator | – |
| 10 | Pyramid Song | – |
| 11 | You and Whose Army? | – |
| 12 | Sit Down. Stand Up. | – |
| 13 | Myxomatosis | – |
| 14 | No Surprises | – |
| 15 | Optimistic | – |
| 16 | Bodysnatchers | – |
| 17 | Exit Music (for a Film) | – |
| 18 | Street Spirit (Fade Out) | – |
| E1 | Let Down | – |
| E2 | Weird Fishes/Arpeggi | – |
| E3 | Idioteque | – |
| E4 | Present Tense | – |
| E5 | Like Spinning Plates | Tour debut; first since 29 July 2018 |
| E6 | Paranoid Android | – |
| E7 | There There | – |
the video
Like Spinning Plates · The official promo, which runs Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors into it.· Radioheadwatch on youtube →