A surprise live album for Radiohead
The Radioheads have released a new live album, entirely dedicated to the songs of “Hail to the Thief”, the band’s sixth studio album, released in 2003. Just entitled “Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009)”, collects recordings of concerts held precisely between 2003 and 2009, in a period that the Frontman Thom Yorke has defined as full of energy. The album is already available on the platforms and you can order the album in various physical versions on the band’s website, which will be released at the end of October.
“In the planning phase of the arrangements for the theatrical production ‘Hamlet/Hail to the Thief’, I asked to listen to some live recordings of the songs. I was struck by the energy that was behind our way of playing. I barely recognized us, and this helped me to find a way to go on. We decided to make me mix and publish these recordings. It was a very cathartic process. Here is a version of “There, There” recorded live in Buenos Aires in 2009.
The album will offer live versions of songs such as “2 + 2 = 5”, “There There” and “A wolf at the door”, recorded between London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Dublin between 2003 and 2009.
The publication arrives within a context in which it has been chasing voices for months on a possible live return of the band in 2025, after years of pause – with a tour in Europe and UK planned for forwarded autumn, but not yet announced. As already reported by Rockol, the scattered clues and management statements have hinted that the Radioheads are ready for a new world tour. On 10 March, Radiohead founded a new limited liability company called Rheuk25 LLP based at 41 of Great Portland Street, in London, which hosts the offices of Hardwick & Morris, the Radiohead accounting company. The entity was founded by all five members of the group: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, and O’Brien and Philip Selway and this kind of activity usually preludes an active return of the band. The name Rheuk25 was noticed, puts together the name of the band (Radiohead), Europe (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) and 2025. It would be the first radiohead tour together in seven years, after that, which ended in 2018, linked to the album “A Moon Shaped Pool”, released two years earlier.
