Everything (tour)
| Solo tour by Thom Yorke | |
 Promotional poster | |
| Location |
|
|---|---|
| Start date | October 23, 2024 |
| End date | November 26, 2024 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 18 |
Everything was a 2024 solo concert tour by the English musician Thom Yorke. Yorke played a variety of music from his solo projects and his bands Radiohead, Atoms for Peace and the Smile. The tour encompassed Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore, and comprised 18 shows between 23 October and 26 November.
Background
[edit]Yorke announced the tour on 2 June 2024.[1] He said he would be "alone on stage trying a new kind of solo show thing playing versions of songs from my recent and not so recent past".[1] Yorke said the tour was named "Everything" as to not put limits on songs he could play.[1] The tour began on 25 October 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand.[2]
Two pop-up shops in Melbourne and Sydney opened in promotion of the tour,[3] selling merchandise including vinyl records, shirts and posters.[4] Merchandise from Radiohead and the Smile was also sold,[3] as well as a limited-edition record, Live From Electric Lady Studios.[4]
Music
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Yorke performed "stripped-back" arrangements of songs from his solo records and his bands Radiohead, Atoms for Peace and the Smile.[5] He used a variety of synthesisers, guitars, mixers and microphones, moving between them as he played.[2][6] Yorke debuted a new song, "Back in the Game", which was created with English electronic musician Mark Pritchard.[7] The song features an "anxiety-inducing synth beat" with digitally distorted vocals.[8]
Tammy Walters of Forte said the tour highlighted Yorke's flexibility in both vocals and instrumentation.[6] Writing for Rolling Stone Australia, James Jennings gave a performance at the Sydney Opera House two and a half out of five, praising Yorke's vocals but writing that the "patchy selection of songs doesn't quite gel into a cohesive, satisfying whole".[9]
On 30 October, during Yorke's last performance in Melbourne, a pro-Palestine protester interrupted the show close to its conclusion.[10] Yorke asked the protester to come up on stage in response, calling him a coward and asking if he wanted to "piss on everybody's night?"[11] Yorke then walked off-stage.[12] He returned a few minutes later to play a final song.[10] Yorke and Radiohead had previously been criticised for playing in Tel Aviv in 2017, in defiance of a boycott arranged by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.[13][14] Yorke called the criticism "patronising" and "offensive".[15]
Setlist
[edit]This setlist is derived from Yorke's first performance in Christchurch, New Zealand.[16] It is not representative of all shows.
| Song | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 'Weird Fishes / Arpeggi" | Radiohead | In Rainbows (2007) |
| "I Might Be Wrong" | Radiohead | Amnesiac (2001) |
| "A Brain in a Bottle" | Thom Yorke | Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (2014) |
| "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" | Radiohead | Amnesiac (2001) |
| "Suspirium" | Thom Yorke | Suspiria (2018) |
| "Bloom" | Radiohead | The King of Limbs (2011) |
| "Nose Grows Some" | Thom Yorke | Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (2014) |
| "How to Disappear Completely" | Radiohead | Kid A (2000) |
| "Black Swan" | Thom Yorke | The Eraser (2006) |
| "Back in the Game" | Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke | Tall Tales (2025) |
| "Rabbit in Your Headlights" | Unkle and Thom Yorke | Psyence Fiction (1998) |
| "Volk" | Thom Yorke | Suspiria (2018) |
| "Daydreaming" | Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) |
| "Not the News" | Thom Yorke | Anima (2019) |
| "Present Tense" | Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) |
| "Everything in Its Right Place" | Radiohead | Kid A (2000) |
| "Dawn Chorus" | Thom Yorke | Anima (2019) |
| "Hearing Damage" | Thom Yorke | |
| "Default" | Atoms for Peace | Amok (2012) |
| "Bodysnatchers" | Radiohead | In Rainbows (2007) |
Encore
[edit]| Title | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Bodies Laughing | The Smile | Cutouts (2024) |
| Cymbal Rush | Thom Yorke | The Eraser (2006) |
| Atoms for Peace | Thom Yorke | The Eraser (2006) |
Second encore
[edit]| Title | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Karma Police | Radiohead | OK Computer (1997) |
Tour dates
[edit]| Date | City | Country | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 October 2024 | Christchurch | New Zealand | Wolfbrook Arena |
| 25 October 2024 | Auckland | Spark Arena | |
| 26 October 2024 | |||
| 29 October 2024 | Melbourne | Australia | Sidney Myer Music Bowl |
| 30 October 2024 | |||
| 1 November 2024 | Sydney | Sydney Opera House Forecourt | |
| 2 November 2024 | |||
| 5 November 2024 | Singapore | The Star Theatre | |
| 12 November 2024 | Osaka | Japan | Grand Cube |
| 13 November 2024 | |||
| 15 November 2024 | Tachikawa | Tachikawa Stage Garden | |
| 16 November 2024 | Tokyo | Line Cube Shibuya | |
| 18 November 2024 | Fukuoka | Sunplace | |
| 19 November 2024 | Hiroshima | Hiroshima Bunka Gakuen HBG Hall | |
| 21 November 2024 | Nagoya | Century Hall | |
| 23 November 2024 | Tokyo | Tokyo Garden Theatre | |
| 24 November 2024 | |||
| 26 November 2024 | Kyoto | ROHM Theatre | |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c DeVille, Chris (2 June 2024). "Thom Yorke Announces Solo Tour Of New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, & Japan". Stereogum. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ a b Dillane, Tom (24 October 2024). "'I hate working alone': Thom Yorke defies his nature for stunning Auckland solo show". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ a b Mack, Emmy (21 October 2024). "Thom Yorke Announces Sydney & Melbourne Pop-Up Shops". Music Feeds. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ a b Varvaris, Mary. "Pop-Up Stores For Thom Yorke's 'Everything' Australian Tour Announced". The Music. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ Singh, Chris (3 November 2024). "Thom Yorke was the scariest thing in Sydney this Halloween". The AU Review. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ a b Walters, Tammy (30 October 2024). "Thom Yorke takes audiences on a transcendent tour of his expansive catalogue at first Melbourne show". Forte Magazine. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ Kreps, Daniel (13 February 2025). "Hear Thom Yorke Team With Mark Pritchard for New Song 'Back in the Game'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ Duran, Anagricel (13 February 2025). "Listen to Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard's eerie new collab 'Back In The Game' on WARP Records". NME. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
- ^ Jennings, James (3 November 2024). "Thom Yorke: solo tour proves that Radiohead is his best work". Rolling Stone Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ a b Jefferson, Dee (31 October 2024). "Thom Yorke walks off stage after being heckled by pro-Palestine protester at Melbourne concert". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ Lewry, Fraser (31 October 2024). "Video shows Thom Yorke challenging pro-Palestine heckler before walking offstage". Louder Sound. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ Kaufman, Gil (31 October 2024). "Radiohead's Thom Yorke Walks Off Stage At Solo Show After Confronting Heckler Over Israel-Hamas War: 'See You Later Then'". Billboard. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ Strauss, Matthew (31 October 2024). "Thom Yorke Leaves Stage in Response to Pro-Palestine Protestor". Pitchfork. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
- ^ O'Connor, Roisin (31 October 2024). "Thom Yorke walks offstage after being confronted by pro-Palestine protester". The Independent. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
- ^ Blais-Billie, Braudie (20 July 2017). "Radiohead Play Longest Set in 11 Years at Controversial Israel Show". Pitchfork. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
- ^ Ragusa, Paolo (23 October 2024). "Thom Yorke plays new song "Back in the Game" and Radiohead debut cuts at solo tour kick-off". Consequence. Retrieved 25 February 2025.