Song · The Bends era (1994–96)
Permanent Daylight
In 1993 it was a short instrumental, offered for a soundtrack and turned down.
My Iron Lung (EP)album- 1994released
- 2:48length
1993–94
the noise
Radiohead first played it in Copenhagen on 3 June 1993, more than a year before it came out. That summer it was a brief instrumental, and Thom Yorke explained that it had been put forward for a soundtrack and rejected. By the time it was recorded it had grown longer. It is still close to an instrumental, nearly three minutes of abrasive guitar meant at least partly as a nod to Sonic Youth.
It went out on the second CD of “My Iron Lung” on 26 September 1994. The sleeve credits John Leckie as producer and Nigel Godrich as an engineer, and this song to Godrich and Radiohead as its producers, with Jim Warren, the band's live sound engineer, mixing. No earlier Radiohead record carries Godrich's name as producer.
2000–01
on stage
Live at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, May 1995.· jemappelle82watch on youtube →
the record(1)
on stage(3)
Live history
| Times played | 38 shows |
|---|---|
| Live debut | Thursday 3 June 1993 · Copenhagen |
| Last played | Thursday 4 October 2001 · Yokohama |
| Longest absence | 4 years · back on Friday 1 September 2000 · Newport |
Nights played include broadcasts; opened and closed count gigs only. A cancelled night has no setlist. All setlist stats →
Tabs (1)
sources5
- Wikipedia, “My Iron Lung (EP)”, for the release.
- The site's own catalogue note, based on fan archives, for Sonic Youth.
- This site's news archive, “Radiohead put out ‘My Iron Lung’ with six new songs behind it” (8 October 1994), for the release date and the production credits; “Radiohead play Can's ‘Thief’ for the first time in Copenhagen” (8 September 2000), for the return; “Newport hears ‘Idioteque’ as Radiohead's British tent tour opens” (1 September 2000), for the tour.
- The 2003 treefingers.com lyric page (
_legacy/lyrics/songs/permanent_daylight.txt), for the 1993 instrumental and the soundtrack. - Performance dates from this site's own setlist archive.