Song · Kid A / Amnesiac era (2000–01)
I Froze Up
First heard on a Christmas webcast in 2002, promised for a box somewhere, and still unreleased.
dec 2002
the christmas webcast
Radiohead broke off from finishing their sixth album, Hail to the Thief, one Wednesday evening in December 2002 to webcast four songs from their studio in Oxford. One was a Christmas cover of “Walking in a Winter Wonderland”, and this was one of the two nobody had heard before. NME described it as a plain ballad over an organ; fan archives remember Thom Yorke playing it on a Rhodes piano. It had not been in any of the 12 shows in Portugal and Spain that summer.
In March 2003, on the band's message board, Yorke said it and “Good Morning Mr Magpie”, the other new song from the webcast, would definitely turn up in a box somewhere soon. “Magpie” got there, on The King of Limbs.
2010
outside the bedroom
Yorke brought it back on his own at the Cambridge Corn Exchange on 25 February 2010, at a solo benefit for the Green Party, seven years after the webcast.
I've never played this outside my bedroom, or other people's bedrooms
thom yorke · varsity, february 2010
When OKNOTOK was announced in May 2017 with three long-unreleased songs on it, Vulture named “I Froze Up” among the ones still waiting.
the video
An On a Friday recording, cleaned up by the uploader.· shoeboxrwatch on youtube →
the record(1)
on stage(3)
Live history
| Times played | 1 show |
|---|---|
| Live debut | Wednesday 18 December 2002 · Oxford |
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 fan archives.
- Treefingers news desk, 19 December 2002 (from NME and Billboard), for the webcast.
- Treefingers news desk, 3 March 2003, for Yorke on the message board.
- The site's song page for “Morning Mr Magpie”, for its release.
- Zing Tsjeng and Laurie Tuffrey, review of Thom Yorke at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, Varsity, 28 February 2010, for the introduction.
- Treefingers news desk, 2 May 2017 (from Vulture), for the songs still outstanding after OKNOTOK.