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Post  Scarlet Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:43 pm

RADIOHEAD fans must be getting used to getting something for nothing.

If you were feeling stingy, you could have downloaded their latest album In Rainbows without paying a penny and then gone to this free gig, where they played the whole album live.

But getting in here was going to be a lot more tricky than scoring a free download. Fans queued outside the Rough Trade Record Shop in East London from mid-morning, waiting in the cold for over nine hours.

At 7.15pm, with confusion in the air, the venue was suddenly switched - from the record shop to the 93 Feet East nightclub across the road.

Radiohead spokesman Murray Chalmers explained: "On the advice of police and the local council, it was decided to change the venue to the larger one in the interests of public safety and due to the size of the crowd that turned up."

Around 1500 people were milling around, and when police tried to clear a space through Brick Lane, there was some jostling between them and fans anxious to stick around.

There had been promises of a big screen, but police vetoed that plan on fears of crowd trouble.

93 Feet East began letting people in around 9.30pm and THOM YORKE and co eventually took to the stage at 10.20pm.

In front of 250 people they launched into 15 Step, the opening track from In Rainbows.

"What a f***ing day!" commented Yorke, before the boys played Bodysnatchers. They continued to play all the tracks off In Rainbows, in order.

Jigsaw Falling Into Place was the pick, the most melodic and infectious of the new bunch of songs.

The boys seemed to be enjoying themselves. "Warts 'n' all, it's gonna get ugly," laughed Yorke after messing up the intro to a song.

After In Rainbows, the band thrilled fans with some old classics.

You And Whose Army provoked a mass drunken singalong during which Yorke again had a little joke: "I was having a serious moment there!" he quipped, after some over enthusiastic crowd chanting.

Then they played The National Anthem, followed by oldies My Iron Lung and The Bends, which rounded things off perfectly. The people that had managed to get in still couldn't believed they'd witnessed this. They cheered and chanted 'Thankyou!' as the band left the stage at 11.40pm.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/music/article698017.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=Radiohead
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