Radiohead
Pyramid Stage
Glastonbury
June 28, 2003

Radiohead were the one band I simply couldn’t wait to see and gladly I wasn’t at all disappointed. People since the gig have been whining about Thom Yorke’s voice during this 18 song set but it was simply sublime if you ask me – like everything else about Britain’s Biggest Band ™ I have to say. If you want to hear a technically perfect vocal performance fuck right off to a Celine Dion gig and leave the real spellbinding Radiohead to those of us clever enough to see beyond the boring tag. Twats. True, Yorke and Co are bordering on early Genesis-like prog rock but even the new material was anthemic on the big stage, and classics like “Lucky” (in rock-out form here), show closer “Street Spirit” and an almost heartbreaking performance of “Fake Plastic Trees” even had Mr Miserable in chief Yorke grinning inanely and a loved-up couple shagging towards the back of the field. Shagging to Radiohead, fancy that. At Glastonbury I don’t think anyone else will ever be this good again and that’s not hype or hyperbole. It’s true and anyone there will, I’m sure, agree. Unless they’re one of the aforementioned twats of course.

Dave B

Sounds XP
07.03