Radiohead want to play their rejected James Bond song for Spectre in full on their European tour later this year. The band have whittled the setlist down to 70 songs and have banned brother Colin and Johnny Greenwood from choosing the songs because they are too indecisive.
RADIOHEAD fans will be shaken (not stirred) by the band’s James Bond song at their upcoming gigs. The Oxford art rockers play their first shows in seven years across five cities later this year, including a London O2 Arena residency.
The song they’re looking forward to playing most is their rejected 007 anthem Spectre which has only ever been aired briefly in acoustic fashion before.
Bassist Colin Greenwood revealed: “I’d love to play the song Spectre. We did it in America for Moon Shaped Pool, Thom (Yorke) played it on the Rhodes keyboard. But I want to play it as a full band type thing, a la Paul McCartney Live & Let Die – there’s a massive bit in the middle.”
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Radiohead’s celebrated second album, The Bends but they’re not planning to play the whole thing.
Instead Colin spilled: “It’s going to be a mixed set, we’ve whittled it down to 70 songs and me and my brother (guitarist Johnny) are not on the setlist committee, we’re not allowed. Because we are too indecisive!”
Radiohead gigs are renowned for their intricacy but it sounds like the band are winging it this time.
“We are going to take what we did in the summer of ‘24 when we did that jam, and we’re not doing many rehearsals either, so it all seems quite sort of relaxed,” said Colin referring to the band’s brief hook-up last year. “We will play anything in any order at any time. We take a busking attitude to the Radiohead setlist. We are playing everything – stuff from the first record right through to now. It’s going to be the first time we’ve done shows where we haven’t got new material as work in progress, but you never know; stuff might come up or whatever.”
Colin described doing residencies in Madrid, Bologna, Berlin and Copenhagenas “a bit Sinatra-esque” instead of a regular tour. He also confirmed they will have two drummers on stage again as they have on previous tours: “Phil (drummer Selway) is working on it at the moment it’s great for me because I get to check in what each of them are doing, I can wander over and Phil loves it because I can stop hassling him.”
Rumours last minute gigs by the band were wide of the mark confirmed Colin who say’s it’s impossible to get the venues. He told the Adam Buxton podcast: “Reality is if you want to start making plans or doi any shows for us you have to give the venues a minimum of a year to a year and a half notice , so if anyone thinks that anyone in Radiohead says they’re gonna do some touring and there are rumours about it – it’s not going to happen because you have that 18 months; post Covid everywhere is sold out. Getting your slot to play is such a long term thing there’s never going to be any last minute announcements.”
Radiohead kick off the UK London shows on November 21.
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