There appears to be no end in sight as the COVID-19 lockdown appears set to continue into May. Of course, artists within the music industry are fighting to restore some semblance of normality in these difficult times, for fans, and themselves alike.
For Radiohead fans, there’s some good news. Radiohead has announced they’ll be sharing various classic live concerts during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Radiohead posted on Instagram of their intentions to release weekly shows on Youtube “until either the restrictions resulting from [the] current situation are eased, or we run out of shows.”
They further teased: “Which will be first? No-one knows,”
The live concerts begin today from April 9, at 10 pm tonight, premiering a performance some twenty years ago, ‘Live From a Tent In Dublin’, from Punchestown Racecourse. Head over at the link here tonight for the stream.
From their Instagram post, they said: “Now that you have no choice whether or not you fancy a quiet night in, we hereby present the first of several LIVE SHOWS from the Radiohead Public Library now coming to Radiohead’s YouTube channel.”
Above the lengthy caption is a clip of ‘The National Anthem’.
Radiohead recently uploaded their complete discography onto Youtube. It came after Billboard announced they’d be counting Youtube streams in a bid to determine chart positions.
Everything produced by the band from their debut ‘Pablo Honey’ through to their most recent album, ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ has been added, found at the link here.
According to the Reddit forum r/radiohead, the band’s complete catalog up to ‘Hail to the Thief’ includes a published timestamp of 2016. YouTube, however, has labeled every playlist as “updated yesterday”, (Dec 18).
Photo: Raymond Flotat.
