A band like Radiohead has little prove, financially, artistically, or otherwise, and yet Saturday night at Liberty State Park saw them firing on all cylinders, working as hard as any up-and-comer to deliver. Two hours and fifteen minutes after coming on almost exactly on time, having completed a two-encore set that swept comprehensively and satisfyingly through some of their older material, there wasn't a sad face in the crowd. And then, as you begin to look around the crowd, you realize that the baseball-cap-toting ironic-tshirt-lacking mid 30's crowd that has permeated right through the thick crust of hipsters is not just a sad contingent of Aunts and Uncles who want to hang out with the cool kids. This is the meat, the very soul of the now-aging Generation X, the people who pulled us out of the vapid 80's with a little bit of edge and a whole lot of vigorous headbanging and worn jeans. And now they've come back to their Mecca, and that Mecca is your Mecca, and that Mecca is Radiohead. Amen.
"This first song is for Kings of Lee-Own. If we were that good looking, we'd be famous," said Thom before the band opened up with Reckoner. All of In Rainbows made it into the set, and after a longer-than-usual period of working over the same material (five years in between Hail to the Thief and this new one), the material seems to keep evolving to the point where the band is more comfortable with the songs now than ever, studio, Lollapalooza, anywhere.
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