Song · Live covers
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division's last single, played by Atoms for Peace rather than by Radiohead.
1980
after curtis
Ian Curtis wrote it and it was released shortly after his death in May 1980, which is why it is impossible to hear as just a song about a marriage failing.
2010
atoms for peace
The cover in this catalogue was performed by Atoms for Peace, the band Yorke formed with Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, on their 2010 shows. It is a Yorke performance, not a Radiohead one: the archive holds no Radiohead date for it.
Radiohead's own documented Joy Division cover is “Ceremony”, played once in Oxford in 2007.
on stage
Live, live with Atoms For Peace.· WiseRileywatch on youtube →
sources2
- The site's own catalogue note, based on Stereogum and Slicing Up Eyeballs.
- This site's own setlist archive, which holds no Radiohead performance of it.