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Radiohead suits up for sold-out Verizon Wireless concert Wednesday
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Radiohead is off and running on its new tour coming to Verizon Wireless with a sold-out show Wednesday night. Count me in among those who can’t wait for the experience.

Liars will open at 7 p.m. Wednesday, and go to www.livenation.com for day of show updates.

The tour began May 5 in West Palm Beach, and opening night reviews are in.

Concert web site www.livedaily.com says the show boasts a healthy mix of material and a mesmerizing light show, and lives up to the anticipation felt by both hardcore fans and casual listeners. If there were any disappointments, the review said it was the absence of “Karma Police,” though the absence of “Creep” was expected.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel said the band’s opening night show revealed the band “clearly hasn’t lost its capacity to feel, to register the shocks of existence through its music. What Radiohead does, and did elegantly on opening night, is take all that anguish and turn it into a great, dramatic outpouring.”

If the band, the review stated, was “leading a funeral march for the human condition, it was the lively, cathartic New Orleans kind, where people are encouraged to sing and dance and cry.”

The New York Times wrote: “The songs were well played – and then suddenly over, with quiet and slightly tense shifts between songs. Mr. (Thom) Yorke got inside the music as he normally does, singing like a bowed string instrument, meshing his long vocal tones with the rest of the ensemble.”

Here’s the set list from the West Palm Beach show:

“All I Need”

“Bodysnatchers”

“There There”

“Reckoner”

“The Gloaming”

“Morning Bell”

“Nude”

“How to Disappear Completely”

“15 Step”

“Weird Fishes”/ “Arpeggi”

“Idioteque”

“Bulletproof…I Wish I Was”

“Where I End and You Begin”

“Airbag”

“Everything in It’s Right Place”

“The National Anthem”

“Videotape”

First Encore

“Optimistic”

“Just”

“Faust Arp”

“Exit Music (for a Film)”

“Bangers & Mash”

Second encore

“House of Cards”

“Street Spirit”

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  1. Melophobe  May 16, 2008 at 3:47 UTC

    Anytime you see the Thom dance, it’s pretty much worth it! We made some videos on our site.

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  2. James  May 13, 2008 at 4:26 UTC

    The best band on the planet. period

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  3. Dennis Smith  May 13, 2008 at 2:59 UTC

    The setlist from West Palm beach isn’t even as good as the one in Tampa. See greenplastic.com for all the show. About 18 or so songs are the same from night to night, with different old ones and a couple from Disc 2 rotating in and out from night to night. Can’t wait for tomorrow.

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  4. Jeebus  May 12, 2008 at 6:02 UTC

    My god, that set list is stunningly chock-full of great songs. And you could make up an equally impressive list composed of songs they didn’t play.

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