“I hate to be corny however we’re actually fucking glad to be again on this metropolis,” Thom Yorke mentioned at Kings Theatre on Friday evening (11/18). It was the primary evening of a three-show NYC run for The Smile, his new mission together with his Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, and he was introducing newer music “Individuals on Balconies,” which he devoted to the town. The Smile are a number of days into their first ever North American tour, supporting their improbable debut, this 12 months’s A Gentle for Attracting Consideration. They performed the entire album at Friday evening’s present, together with the handful of newer songs they’ve had in stay rotation — “Learn the Room,” “Bending Hectic,” “Colors Fly,” and “Simply Eyes and Mouth,” along with the aforementioned “Individuals on Balconies” — and so they ended the evening with a canopy of Thom’s solo monitor “Feeling Pulled Aside by Horses.”
Lined up in a row towards a hypnotic backdrop of flashing dashes of sunshine, Thom, Jonny and Tom every appeared absorbed in their very own personal sphere onstage, commonly swapping devices, however they sounded improbable, and saxophonist Robert Stillman, who appeared on the album and opened the present, additionally got here out for a lot of songs. One of many highlights of the evening was the propulsive “You Will By no means Work in Tv Once more,” which they’d simply performed on Fallon for his or her US tv debut, and obtained one of many evening’s most putting mild reveals, and most enthusiastic receptions.
See footage from Friday evening’s present, together with some attendee-taken video and the setlist, beneath.
The Smile have two extra NYC reveals lined up: Kings Theatre tonight (11/19) and Hammerstein Ballroom on Sunday (11/20).
Store for Radiohead and Thom vinyl within the BV retailer.
SETLIST: THE SMILE @ KINGS THEATRE, 11/18/2022
Pana-Imaginative and prescient
Skinny Factor
The Reverse
Speech Bubbles
Free within the Data
A Hairdryer
Waving a White Flag
Colors Fly
We Do not Know What Tomorrow Brings
Learn the Room
Skrting on the Floor
Simply Eyes and Mouth
Individuals on Balconies
The Smoke
You Will By no means Work in Tv Once more
Encore:
Open the Floodgates
The Similar
Bending Hectic
Encore 2:
Feeling Pulled Aside by Horses
