Radiohead’s Tel Aviv Show Goes Ahead As Planned

The band play an epic 27 song set...

Radiohead's Tel Aviv show went ahead as planned last night (July 19th).

The band announced the Israel date earlier this year, the ninth time the Oxford group had played the Middle East country.

However this date was the first since the formation of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement, which protests Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people.

Artists such as Roger Waters, Brian Eno, and Ken Loach all called on Radiohead to cancel the show, but Thom Yorke argued that it should go ahead.

Speaking on Twitter, the singer wrote: "Music, art and academia is about crossing borders not building them, about open minds not closed ones, about shared humanity, dialogue and freedom of expression."

The show at Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park went ahead as planned, with Radiohead playing a huge 27 song set – by some accounts, their longest live performance in more than a decade.

The set list features a broad spread of the band's career – even finding room for 'Creep' in the second encore.

Thom Yorke didn't address the cultural boycott, but he did tell the crowd: "A lot of stuff has been said about this, but in the end, we played some music."

Check out the set list below:

Setlist:
Daydreaming
Lucky
Ful Stop
Airbag
15 Step
Myxomatosis
All I Need
Pyramid Song
Everything in Its Right Place
Let Down
Bloom
Identikit
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
The Numbers
2 + 2 = 5
Bodysnatchers
Idioteque

Encore:
No Surprises
Nude
Like Spinning Plates
Lotus Flower
Paranoid Android
Reckoner

Encore 2:
Creep
The Bends
There There
Karma Police

For tickets to the latest Radiohead shows click HERE.

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