"Where are you guys sleeping tonight?" Radiohead's Thom Yorke asked the Bonnaroo audience Friday, midway through the group's set. "In a field? Do you do that here? Face down in the mud? That's what we do in Britain. It's a British tradition."
Few people fell out on Bonnaroo's Friday headliner, even though Radiohead played till past midnight, two and a quarter hours in all. Much of the material came from the band's most recent albums, last year's The King of Limbs and 2007's In Rainbows.
The band, which also played Bonnaroo in 2007, offered both a musical and a visual spectacle, keeping the crowd riveted with 12 large video screens, suspended above the stage. After each song, the screens moved into different configurations: turning flat above the band to create a club-like setting for 15 Steps, raising back to for a bandshell effect on Kid A, offering multiple close-ups of Yorke's face as he sat at an upright piano with his back to the audience on Daily Mail, one of three new songs the group performed.
Another new song, called Supercollider, received a cryptic dedication from Yorke that left some speculating the two acts may have collaborated recently with Jack White at White's Nashville recording studio.
"This one's for Jack White," Yorke said. "We'd like to thank him. We won't tell you why ... you'll find out."
Set list
First Encore
Second Encore
