Through the awesomeness that is my work, I not only got to go to the sold out Radiohead concert at the 22,000 capacity Thunderbird Stadium tonight, but I also got a backstage pass to meet Jonny and Colin Greenwood!
The night was pissin’ cold rain (hard to believe it’s August) and we were down in the open stadium lawn for the whole concert. Need I say, Radiohead played amazingly! The reflective lights on the stage were eye-catching and so were the mosaics of the band projected on the jumbotrons, especially by the time it was dark.
Here’s what the Radiohead In Rainbows tour set list:
For the finale song, Thom Yorke told the fans that we could decide on the last song that the band would play. The choices? Idioteque or Paranoid Android. The crowd went stark ravin’ bonkers for Paranoid Android. Then as if by coincidence or design, it started to shower even more heavily as Thom Yorke got to this part of the paranoid android song:
“rain down, rain down
come on rain down on me
from a great height
from a great height….height…
rain down, rain down
come on rain down on me”
It was so wet, but I endured, finding slight shelter from the torrential downpour, under an ice cream cart’s umbrella, in the midst of the concert lawn. Because after the concert ended, it was absolutely worth it. Looking and feeling a bit like a drowned rat, I proudly stuck the backstage access sticker on my jacket and walked on in to meet the multi-talented and soft-spoken Jonny Greenwood and his friendly and charming brother, Colin Greenwood.
By the time we left the backstage tent, the rain had let up. Honestly, I wouldn’t have noticed if it had continued pelting down, as I was sunny and beaming all the way back to the parkade.
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waw! kewlll