Thom Yorke’s two appearances at 2015’s Latitude annual festival in Suffolk, England, marked a weekend of surprises.
On Friday night, July 17, Ed Sheeran performed on the iArena stage at the whose capacity is 3,000. Saturday he got even more intimate when he surprised fans at the Other Voices stage which only accommodates a few hundred.
And then on what would be technically Monday morning since it was after midnight, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke performed in the very same iArena, unannounced.
Yorke delivered a plethora of live debuts to the few thousand fans who were lucky enough to be there instead of rocking out to Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds on the main stage.
What those lucky few thousand got to see and hear was Yorke’s first real solo performance in over four years. The 11-song set had seven live debuts, four of which (“Impossible Knots,” “Not the News,” “Traffic,” and “Twist”) wouldn’t officially come out on an LP until mid-2019’s Anima.
“My name’s Pharrell, and this is Robin Thicke,” Yorke said to the festival goers while introducing Radiohead producer and longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich. “This is an experiment. Relax and let our machines talk to you.”
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