Radiohead 8/13/03
Tweeter Center Mansfield, MA
Soundcheck
backdrifts, Airbag, Backdrifts, ?*, Idioteque, 2+2=5, Fake Plastic trees, the Gloaming...(more, but this is all i could identify from box office line)
Opening act: The Jigs (??)
I: 2+2=5, Sit down. Stand up, paraniod android, Kid A, Backdrifts, Morning Bell**, My Iron Lung, Where I end and you begin, Sail to the moon^, The Gloaming, Climbing the walls, Creep^^, Like Spinning plates, Go to sleep, Scatterbrain, The National Anthem%, There there
II: Lucky, A punchup at a wedding, Airbag, Everything in its right place%%
Encore: No Suprises, Idioteque
*some songs I did\'t remember names on, these are the ones i still could\'nt figure out after listening to album and reading lyics. sorry.
**Kid A version (faster, with drums)
^Everyone was reading chord chards throughout song
^^someone threw shorts on stage right next to thom. he saw them and did a double take and laughed for a few minutes. Later followed by a bra and a shirt. Alt. Lyrics, "I want a perfect body/so I can look good next to you"
% Thom played the brass section vamp on his guitar, rickeback very bright sound. sounded pretty good.
%% Whole band looped, left stage while song continued.
random interesting facts:
*Thoms wrist bands say rock and roll star
*small radio used for idioteque and others is tuned to channel 80.9fm. this channel doesn\'t exsit. who knows
* if you thought thoms dancing looks weird on tv....
my day
10:17 leave southington, ct with 2 tix sec 8 row cc and my friend dave
11:50 arrive @ venue to 8 other people. one I knew from pearl jam, he was the only other person looking to upgrade at box office
1:00 box office opens, releases ONE ticket
3:30 meet Paul, who was dicked over by WASTE fan club. apparently they sent him sec 10 and he should have gotten the mosh pit (yes, i\'ll explain it later) ticks. also, pizza is delivered to us in front of box office
4 - ish soundcheck starts, made list best i could through group concessus
4:30 -ish box office opens... buy 2 in sec 2 row u. called JOSH to tell him to get down here if he wanted the tixs
5-ish sell 1 of the sec 8 tix. meet Girl in same situation as paul who has 4 tix but only needs two. Have potential sale worked with her to buy her other two tickets for mosh pit.
5-6:30 obtain pit tickets, sell section 2 to some guys i knew from work, call
JOSH again, got your girlfriend. Find wolfman looking like he was enjoying himself to the fullest while trying to sell the 1 ticket.
6:30 finally give up on selling ticket (this must have been what phish was like this year). swallowed the 50$ and go in whith dreams of headbanding to treefinger and we suck young blood. the front 7 rows of center section were removed for the radiohead headbangers. only way to get these tickets is through WASTE. Ticketbastard has no control of them! end up 4 people back from stage and within 10 feet of thom for the show while people on the lawn are getting a lightning and (rain?) storm. So now one of the top five shows has been added to my list, and I leave any radiohead fan with this advice: BUY FROM WASTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! much better tickets, and its a free fan club!!!!
also, check ticket master and radiohead.com often leading up to a show. Tickets went on sale on both at random times throughout the week leading up, not to mention that the box office was still selling section 1 when I went in to the show at 6:30. Just go the show- i\'d be shocked if you couldn\'t get in. not to mention the few shows they play, go see them!!!!
so I had to eat a ticket while mr. palmeri sat home in staven bc he didn\'t want to risk going all the way up there and getting shut out. hmmmmm..... your loss timmy. So,
chew
on
that.
