- MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK CITY AUGUST 7TH 2001-
Setlist:

The National Anthem
Morning Bell
My Iron Lung
Karma Police
Knives Out
Permanent Daylight
Climbing Up the Walls
No Surprises
Dollars and Cents
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
Fake Plastic Trees
I Might Be Wrong
Follow Me Around (first chorus)
Pyramid Song
Paranoid Android
Idioteque
Everything In Its Right Place

Encore:
Lucky
Optimistic
You and Whose Army?
How to Disappear Completely

Encore 2:
Talk Show Host
Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Encore 3:
Exit Music (for a Film)


*Photographs taken by: Chris Cantz*

MP3s will be available soon.

Reviews:

Billboard.com:
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke leaned in close to the fish-eye lens projecting his image onto the screens at New York's Madison Square Garden last night (Aug. 7), making bizarre faces and taunting imaginary Roman armies. "Come on, come on, if you think you can take us," he sneered, thumbing back over his shoulder at the other four members of his revered U.K. rock band.

It's highly doubtful that, 20 songs into the performance, anyone in the 14,000-strong crowd seriously thought about taking him up on his offer, as Radiohead was clearly on top of its game. The song, "You and Whose Army?" was just one aural highlight of a 24-track setlist that saw the band plunder its expansive young catalog (though ignoring its debut album "Pablo Honey") and thoroughly entertain a receptive sold-out crowd with all manner of experimental rock and rhythmic exercises.

In the midst of a summer-long, three-continent tour supporting its fifth album, "Amnesiac" (Capitol), Radiohead has finally accumulated enough quality material to pull off a consistently exciting performance in a large-scale venue. And while the band members has confounded and intrigued critics and fans alike with the stylistic leaps characterizing its most recent releases (including last October's chart-topping "Kid A," recorded during the same sessions as "Amnesiac"), its members have found a way to present their music cohesively in a live setting.

After breaking the ice with the dirty groove of opener "The National Anthem," the group showed it could fit rock epics such as "My Iron Lung" snugly alongside the Beatles-esque anthem "Karma Police" and the more recent stutter-step atmospheric pop of "Morning Bell." The first five songs touched on each of the last four Radiohead albums. But the set was to reach out even farther, with majestic performances of b-sides "Permanent Daylight" (introduced by Yorke as a "New York song") and "Talk Show Host" as well as an affecting take on the unreleased "Follow Me Around" (affectionately known to the hardcore-fan set via MP3s and well-documented live performances).

For a band that has become increasingly obsessed with the intricacies of rhythm and meter in its most recent work, bassist Colin Greenwood and drummer Phil Selway (and, to be fair, erstwhile multi-instrumentalist, whiz guitarist, and sometime programmer Jonny Greenwood) were often breathtaking in their mastery of the bottom end. The electronica fuzz of "Idioteque" and "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" sounded exceptional in the cavernous arena, in no small part because of Colin Greenwood's enunciated bass groove and Selway's ability to keep up with and accentuate the synthetic rhythms.

Yorke, in many ways, was the night's MC, occasionally addressing the crowd but more often entertaining with his live-wire dancing and soaring vocals. During the quieter, piano-based numbers (including recent single "Pyramid Song"), he crouched over his upright as an eye-level camera allowed him to visually address the farthest reaches of the arena. Meanwhile, guitarists Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien navigated the elaborate soundscapes, driving the group into fascinating crescendos in "Dollars and Cents" and roller-coaster riff displays in the epic "Paranoid Android."

While much of Radiohead's recorded output lends itself most readily to solo headphone listening or some such intimate setting, the musicians threw enough emotion and fervor into the set to rouse the large crowd, whose wild cheering visibly impressed the band, urging it out for no less than three encores. The second finished with an emphatic rendition of "Street Spirit (Fade Out)," which Yorke declared "a good-night song for New Yorkers." But the deafening roar of appreciation ensured it wouldn't be, and Radiohead took the stage one final time for an inspired run through the haunting ballad "Exit Music (For a Film)."

Riding a five-year wave of commercial success and critical acclaim, constantly stretching the boundaries of its music, and playing with passion to adoring throngs of fans, Radiohead seems to be in a class by itself in the pop music world. And judging from the spectacle at MSG Tuesday night, that fact makes a lot of people happy.

- Troy Carpenter, N.Y.

well at about 7:30, you had the beta band come on. a band i had only heard of but never heard. well, i was quite impressed. i thought they were very fun, they played a nice little set, and seemed really pleased to be there. definitely one of the better opening acts ive seen. next. kid koala. something i never ever expected. a dj. i have never seen a dj open for such a huge band as radiohead. i was kinda stunned. but it was great. i was very pleased by the end. it was much more pleasing to relax and listen to a young dj really really play with his heart. nothing better than watching a performance by someone who really wants to be there. that ended up being kinda cool. and then. well, radiohead. AMAZING. i was in General Admission, it was just pure beauty on stage. over 2 hours of magic. i must say it was my first radiohead show, but i am an avid concert-goer, and it was probably the best show i have ever seen. i mean they were just ON. they seemed happy and enthusiastic. the songs blended so well, old and new. the sing-along songs, were just perfect, every note, and the techno dance electronica songs were amazing live....just something different but amazing. i hi-lite of my evening, though, had to be seeing thom yorke smile. i mean, you could just tell he was happy, and as much as he tried to hide it, he couldnt, the roar of the crowd, he played the crowd well, and just gave a little grin here and there. pure emotion. it was beautiful. that and his "dancing". just a guy freaking out all over the stage, with a sort of non-elegant elegance. it was magic. after 3 encores, ending with Exit Music....i was certainly satisfied. after tonite, my one reccomendation for every radiohead fan, is GO TO A SHOW. geez.....you take everything you ever heard or thought, or was told about the amazement of a radiohead show, and triple it, because, man, its just that good....

wow.
- Brendan, Long Island