Song · Live covers
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Thom Yorke sang it in Oakland in 2010, with a band that was not Radiohead.
1980
ian curtis
Joy Division's single came out in 1980, shortly after the death of their singer, Ian Curtis, in May.
15 apr 2010
the fox theater, oakland
Thom Yorke's band Atoms for Peace, with Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, played it at the Fox Theater in Oakland on 15 April 2010, on the American run that ended at Coachella that weekend. They had played The Eraser straight through, and Yorke had sung alone at the piano and on acoustic guitar. Later the house lights came up and recorded music played for five minutes while the crowd kept calling, and the band came back once more to close the night on Joy Division. Fan footage was out the next day.
The night belongs to Atoms for Peace, so it is not in the Radiohead archive. Radiohead's own Joy Division cover is “Ceremony”, which they played in Oxford for the Thumbs Down webcast on 9 November 2007.
on stage
Live, live with Atoms For Peace.· WiseRileywatch on youtube →
sources5
- The site's own catalogue note, based on Stereogum and Slicing Up Eyeballs.
- Adam Bychawski, “Thom Yorke covers Joy Division's ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ - video”, NME, 16 April 2010, for the night, the line-up and the run to Coachella.
- “Video: Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace covers Joy Division's ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’”, Slicing Up Eyeballs, 16 April 2010.
- “Thom Yorke Demonstrates How to Reappear Completely”, East Bay Express, 21 April 2010, for the running order and the five minutes of house lights.
- This site's own setlist archive, which holds no Radiohead performance of it.