Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009 is available now digitally
Radiohead has announced Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009, a new live album that allowed the band to re-evaluate their relationship with their sixth studio album, Hail To The Thief. The band has also shared a live video performance of “There, There” from Buenos Aires, taken from the album.
Out now digitally, and available to pre-order as a one-off pressing, released on October 31st, the album comprises performances of songs in London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Dublin between 2003 and 2009. The album was mixed by Ben Baptie and mastered by Matt Colton.
“In the process of thinking of how to build arrangements for the Shakespeare Hamlet/Hail To The Thief theatre production,” Thom Yorke says. “I asked to hear some archive live recordings of the songs. I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played. I barely recognised us, and it helped me find a way forward. We decided to get these live recordings mixed and released (it would have been insane to keep them for ourselves). It has all been a very cathartic process. We very much hope you enjoy them.”
The one-off vinyl pressing is also available in a limited-edition red colorway from independent stores and on cyan-colored vinyl, exclusively from Radiohead’s W.A.S.T.E. store.
Yorke recently co-created the critically acclaimed Hamlet Hail to the Thief, a frenetic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, set to a deconstructed score of reworked songs from 2003’s Hail to the Thief.
A1. 2 + 2 = 5
A2. Sit Down. Stand Up
A3. Sail to the Moon
A4. Go to Sleep
A5. Where I End and You Begin
A6. We Suck Young Blood
B1. The Gloaming
B2. There, There
B3. I Will
B4. Myxomatosis
B5. Scatterbrain
B6. A Wolf at the Door
