Song · Pablo Honey era (1992–93)
Nothing Touches Me
Seven nights in 1992, one of them a Radio 1 session, then nothing until a reissue in 2009.
Pablo Honey (collector's edition)album- 2009released
1991–92
the demo and the session
It goes back to the band's 1991 demo tape, Manic Hedgehog. Thom Yorke told Curfew, the Oxford music magazine that put the band, then called On a Friday, on its cover that December, that it started from an artist who was imprisoned and spent the rest of his life painting in his cell. The song itself, he said, is about shutting yourself off so thoroughly that one day you find you have no friends left and nobody talks to you.
It was the last of four songs on Radiohead's first BBC Radio 1 session, broadcast on the Evening Session on 22 June 1992 after “Prove Yourself”, “Creep”, not yet released, and “I Can't”. On stage it belongs to that year alone, from Oxford on 1 February to the Duchess of York in Leeds on 27 October, and one of its nights ended with it.
2009
the session on a record
The version anyone can buy is that session, which came out on the collector's edition of Pablo Honey in 2009, 17 years after the broadcast.
the session
BBC Radio 1 Session 1992.· David Iariawatch on youtube →
on stage(2)
Live history
| Times played | 7 shows |
|---|---|
| Live debut | Saturday 1 February 1992 · Oxford |
| Last played | Tuesday 27 October 1992 · Leeds |
First played live in 1992, 17 years before it was released.
Nights played include broadcasts; opened and closed count gigs only. A cancelled night has no setlist. All setlist stats →
sources4
- On a Friday cover story, Curfew, December 1991, reprinted in the Pop Is Dead fanzine, July 1993 (scan, Internet Archive), for Yorke on the painter and on isolating yourself.
- The site's own catalogue note, based on fan archives, for the demo tape.
- This site's news archive, “Radiohead's first BBC Radio 1 session goes out on the Evening Session” (22 June 1992), for the session, its running order and the 2009 release.
- Performance dates from this site's own setlist archive.