Song · In Rainbows era (2007–09)
Bangers + Mash
In 2008 Radiohead gave a live recording of it to fans who told them how they were getting to the show.
In Rainbows Disk 2album- 2007released
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2006
two drummers
It was first played in Copenhagen on 6 May 2006, the opening night of the tour that previewed most of In Rainbows, with Thom Yorke singing at a second drum kit beside Phil Selway's. It lurches from funk to punk to straight rock, and it is the most abrasive track on what became the second In Rainbows disc. Vulture traced it to Talking Heads' “Crosseyed and Painless”.
Yorke has called his lyrics from this period largely nonsense. Here it hardly matters, because the song is the riff and the two sets of drums, and by the last of the May nights in Britain, at the Hammersmith Apollo on 19 May, part of the crowd was already singing along to a song with no record behind it.
2007–08
the drum kit at the front
It went on the second disc of the In Rainbows box and back into the set in 2008. At Victoria Park in London a miniature kit waited for Yorke at the front of the stage.
Someone is now going to hit this drumkit, me
thom yorke, on stage in victoria park, london · nme, 24 june 2008
That summer everyone who had bought tickets through W.A.S.T.E., the band's shop and fan club, was asked how they planned to travel to the show. Answering got them a free mp3 of this song, recorded at Malahide Castle in Dublin on 6 June 2008, and the band meant to use the answers to plan greener tours.
the session
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the record(1)
on stage(2)
Live history
| Times played | 59 shows |
|---|---|
| Live debut | Saturday 6 May 2006 · Copenhagen |
| Last played | Tuesday 25 August 2009 · Poznań |
Nights played include broadcasts; opened and closed count gigs only. A cancelled night has no setlist. All setlist stats →
sources6
- The site's own catalogue note, based on Rolling Stone, NME and fan archives.
- NME, report from the Copenhagen opening night, 6 May 2006, via this site's news story on the night, for Yorke at the second kit.
- NME, “Radiohead attract the stars”, 20 May 2006, for the Hammersmith singalong.
- Vulture, on the In Rainbows bonus disc, via this site's news story on the disc, for “Crosseyed and Painless”.
- NME, 24 June 2008, and musicOMH, via this site's news story on the Victoria Park night, for the drum kit at the front and Yorke's line.
- American Songwriter, 2008, via this site's news story on the band's green touring, for the questionnaire and the Malahide recording.