New Radiohead: Lotus Flower (mp3); complete show recording
On Sunday night Radiohead played a benefit gig in at the Music Box Theater in Los Angeles to help raise funds for Oxfam’s Haiti relief efforts. Tickets for the gig were only available by auction and ended up raising over a half million dollars for Oxfam. Not much rehearsal took place before the gig (the band are currently recording a follow-up to In Rainbows) which resulted in an, at times, endearingly ramshackle gig. But for the most part the band were spot on, playing some of their most well-known material.
In the final encore, however, Thom came out on his own to play a new Radiohead song, Lotus Flower. He debuted this song last year with his ???? band but this was its first appearance at a Radiohead gig. Vulture points out that the song is “comically Radiohead-esque.” Download an mp3 below or watch a video.
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Radiohead – Lotus Flower (alt. link)
A complete recording of the gig (320kbps mp3) is available here. The good Karma Police will know if you donate to Oxfam after downloading the show…
The photo above was taken by Hazyskyline who also has a blog.
