Radiohead Busts Out ‘Blow Out’ In Chicago

Radiohead kicked off their 18-date North American tour on Friday night with the first of two shows at the United Center in Chicago. The venerable English rock act, who are once again on the road in support of their 2016 release A Moon Shaped Pool delivered a 25-song career-spanning show that saw them unearth a tune that they hadn’t played in nearly a decade.

Thom Yorke & Co. opened the night with a string of tunes from their most recent studio effort with “Daydreaming,” “Desert Island Disk” and “Ful Stop.” The five-piece act, who are touring with a second drummer, touched on all nine of their albums, concentrating the bulk of their setlist selections on material from A Moon Shaped Pool, In Rainbows and the much-beloved Kid A. Radiohead’s main set featured fan-favorites like “Pyramid Song,” “Paranoid Android,” “Reckoner” and “Idioteque” as well as a quartet of songs that were played first time this year with “Morning Bell” “Decks Dark” “How To Disappear Completely” and “Burn The Witch.”

The band served up two encore segments in the Windy City. It was during the second one that they offered up their biggest surprise of the night as they reached for “Blow Out.” The track from their 1993 debut album Pablo Honey had been sitting on the shelf since a pair of performances on back-to-back nights in Tokyo in 2008.

Watch fan-shot videos captured by Serfi and check out the full setlist below:

[Blow Out]

[Decks Dark]

[Fake Plastic Trees]