Everything In Its Right Place
(my favourite show)
Radiohead - Old Trafford Cricket Ground (June 29th 08)
Although the hits were there, as was the stadium, it was the aesthetically pleasing numbers of ‘In Rainbows’ that fueled a blissful and spirited performance that night in Manchester.
As the lazy disco light spilled artificial constellations over the stage, Radiohead arrived in company of a dignified crowd totally unaware of the life-changing experience that awaited them.
I stared entranced, mesmerised In Radiohead’s new material; my brain was momentarily cleared of all those crustaceans of worries as I subsequently found myself in dream-mode. Thom slowly beat on his grand piano, as he sings, “I’m not here, this isn’t happening” in his trademark falsetto as strings melt and weep shifting the set into underwater mode.
Inevitably playing old tracks like the daunting ‘Airbag’ and the unsettling ‘Climbing Up Walls’, the crowd were pleasantly gifted an even older favourite ‘You’, soaking us fans in spine-shivering nostalgia.
Like thousands of others, I was sentimentally overwhelmed with an infinite of emotions as the human part of me was left to weep in awe.
