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In Rainbows – From the Basement (2008)

Where the lyrics of In Rainbows – From the Basement take you, and where it was really made.

This 2008 Radiohead video was recorded at a London studio called the Hospital, and it reached YouTube only in 2020, twelve years later.

Key places

Hospital studio in Covent Garden (2008)

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Album story

Overview

• In Rainbows – From the Basement: a 2008 live video by the English rock band Radiohead
• Features eight songs from the seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), plus six other songs
• Setlist of 14 songs in total, taken from uploads on Radiohead's YouTube channel
• Recorded in April 2008 at the Hospital studio in Covent Garden, London
• Directed by David Barnard

Background

• Radiohead's seventh album, In Rainbows, came out in 2007
• The set also draws on Hail to the Thief (2003) and Kid A (2000)
• The live video is a stage-style performance of material from across the band's catalogue at that point
• Band members credited: Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Philip Selway, Thom Yorke

Recording

• Recorded in April 2008 at the Hospital studio in Covent Garden, London
• Radiohead performed songs from In Rainbows (2007), plus three from Hail to the Thief (2003) and one from Kid A (2000)
• Producers credited: Nigel Godrich, Dilly Gent, James Chads & John Woollcombe
• Sound engineering by Fred Jackson & Martin Dineley; recording assistant Richard Woodcraft
• Brett Turnbull as director of photography; Jerry Chater for editing

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985.
• The members met while attending Abingdon School, a private boys' school in Abingdon.
• The band was first called On a Friday, and signed to EMI in December 1991 under the name Radiohead.

Members

• Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jonny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards), Colin Greenwood (bass), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Philip Selway (drums).
• Nigel Godrich (producer) and Stanley Donwood (cover artist) have worked with the band since 1994.

Career

• Debut album Pablo Honey (1993); The Bends (1995); OK Computer (1997) is considered a landmark record.
• Kid A (2000) marked a dramatic change in style, incorporating electronic music, jazz and krautrock.
• In Rainbows (2007) was self-released as a pay-what-you-want download.
• Over 30 million albums sold by 2011; six Grammy Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Premiered on VH1 in May 2008
• Released on iTunes and on DVD in Japan
• Setlist based on uploads from Radiohead's YouTube channel
• Opens with "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi" (5:20, from In Rainbows)
• Includes "15 Step" (3:56, from In Rainbows) and "Bodysnatchers" (4:15, from In Rainbows)
• Includes "The Gloaming" (3:10, from Hail to the Thief) and "Myxomatosis" (3:54, from Hail to the Thief)
• Includes "Optimistic" (4:39, from Kid A)
• Closes with "Go Slowly" (3:54, from In Rainbows Disk 2)
• Credits: David Barnard as director; Nigel Godrich, Dilly Gent, James Chads & John Woollcombe as producers

Reappraisal

• Premiered on YouTube on 4 June 2020 as part of Radiohead's quarantine concert series
• The 2020 premiere filled a gap left by the lack of live performances during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Followed in 2011 by The King of Limbs: Live From the Basement

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Recorded in April 2008 at the Hospital studio in Covent Garden, London
• The setlist was taken from uploads on Radiohead's YouTube channel
• The 2011 follow-up, The King of Limbs: Live From the Basement, came three years later
• The video premiered on YouTube in 2020, during Radiohead's quarantine concert series
• The set includes "Optimistic" from Kid A alongside songs from In Rainbows

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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