And we are grateful for our iron lung!

Last night we went to Parc Jean-Drapeau to see Radiohead. We were supposed to park the car at one metro station further and take the metro to the venue but as we were driving by it we spotted some parking spaces right at the gig place. So we went to explore further and somehow we found a parking near the main entrance and as the parking machine was broken we got to park totally free, how amazing is that?Must have done something right in my previous life to be blessed with this freebie karma. There were approximately 40 thousand people at the venue, most likely more than that. We got hit by heavy rains during Grizzly Bear, I was unbelievably wet, we were unbelievably miserable sitting on a plastic raincoat. trying not to care about the rain dripping down my nose, patiently, waiting for them.

Just before Radiohead came on the rain stopped and there was a rainbow above us, amazing, the Mount-Royal at the background, a rainbow, Radiohead and the sunset all at once. We moved down from the hill, into the crowd, closer to them, but in a 40 thousand something crowd it was really hard to get close enough to take great pictures, but I saw and heard everything myself and that is the most important part.

The gig was fantastic, marvellous, unthinkably magnificent! They did 25 songs, it seemed like it will never ever end, they will play forever for us, people kept walking to the exit and then coming back as they all thought that this very song would be the last, but it hardly ever was, you see they did 2 sets of encore, first included like 5 songs and all. They did the whole 'In Rainbows' album plus loads of older songs. During 'The National Anthem' the fireworks started, unrelated to the gig, they make fireworks every Wednesday here at 10 pm, it's some sort of whole summer long international fireworks contest...anyways, it made people gasp in awe, what a perfect timing it suited the song so well and the atmosphere of the gig and it freaking blew my mind into millions of small pieces, I was sure I had died and gone to heaven.

I'm having hard time to remember everything, the gig was long, much longer then any gig I have ever been to. At some point it seemed like it might go on forever. The sound was just perfect, there were no fuck-ups and if Thom's voice hadn't shivered and cracked at some bizarre times it might as well been coming all from an album. That is how fabulous these guys are! It was an amazing night, I had such a dream-like experience, I'm freaking rocking my own world right now.

Here is a video we made while moving down from the hill, it gives a great overlook of the massive crowd.


Here is 'Fake Plastic Trees' live from the gig, including the fireworks!


And here is the freaking whole setlist:

1. 15 Step
2. There There
3. Morning Bell
4. All I Need
5. My Iron Lung
6. Nude
7. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
8. The Gloaming
9. The National Anthem
10. Reckoner
11. Like Spinning Plates
12. Fake Plastic Trees
13. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
14. Lucky
15. Optimistic
16. Idioteque
17. Bodysnatchers
    Encore 1
18. Faust Arp
19. Videotape
20. Paranoid Android
21. Bangers and Mash
22. Karma Police
    Encore 2
23. House of Cards
24. You And Whose Army?
25. Everything In It’s Right Place