Thom Yorke
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View
October 26, 2002

One of the most highly anticipated of this year's guests was Yorke, the diminutive front man of the stubborn and ingenious British group Radiohead. Switching off between acoustic guitar and Young's creaky old saloon piano, the unaccompanied singer drew the most unlikely cores from his group's music, finding phantom shades of the Wild West in "Everything in its Right Place," "I Might Be Wrong" and "Lucky."

He unveiled two characteristically anxious new songs, dedicating one to "anybody who went to the peace march today." And he drew a connection between his own brittle falsetto and Young's, offering a straight and stunning reading of his host's hallucinatory piano ballad "After the Goldrush."

James Sullivan

San Francisco Chronicle
28.10.02