Radiohead at Coors Amphitheatre
I was lucky enough to attend the Coors Amphitheatre show in Chula Vista, CA on Sunday. As usual, Radiohead was awesome (I first saw them in 2001 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View). They’ve switched up their show a lot and I liked the new changes. My favorite was the introduction of a camera on Thom’s piano that zooms in really close to his face. They used this for “You and Whose Army?”. During the song, when Thom sang, “Come on…,” the camera would zoom in almost right up to his eyeball and he would wink at the crowd. It was hilarious. Another cool introduction was the video screen they used for “The National Anthem.” The video had a red backdrop and a distorted orange image of Thom with a ticker in the bottom right that showed the current time down to seconds. It was very apocalyptic.
Supergrass opened for Radiohead and they were all right but not as great as the Beta Band, who opened for Radiohead back in 2001. However, I hadn’t really listened to any of Supergrass’ songs prior to the show so I really don’t know enough about the band to judge them. They didn’t floor me at the show though.
At Ease has an excellent recap of the show as well.