Song · Pablo Honey era (1992–93)
Prove Yourself
The first Radiohead song played on national radio in Britain.
Drill (EP)album- 1992released
- 2:32length
may 1992
the drill ep
Drill was mostly the Manic Hedgehog demo tidied up; only two things on it were newly recorded with Chris Hufford at Courtyard, and this was one of them.
Gary Davies played it on BBC Radio 1. That was the band's first national radio exposure in the UK, which makes this song the first anyone outside Oxford heard of them.
They rerecorded it, along with “You” and “Thinking About You”, for Pablo Honey, where its refrain about being better off dead fits the rest of the record's argument with itself.
1992–95
one hundred and forty-one nights
First played in Oxford on 1 March 1992, fifty-four times in 1993, opening eight shows.
on stage
Live at The Warehouse, 1995.· kc93watch on youtube →
Live history
| Times played | 141 shows |
|---|---|
| Live debut | Sunday 1 March 1992 · Oxford |
| Last played | Tuesday 12 December 1995 · Toronto |
| Opened the night | 8 times |
Nights played include broadcasts; opened and closed count gigs only. A cancelled night has no setlist. All setlist stats →
Tabs (1)
sources2
- Wikipedia, “Drill (EP)” and “Pablo Honey”, for the recording and the Radio 1 play.
- Scott Plagenhoef, review of the 2009 reissue, Pitchfork.