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...love you too!" Radiohead's Thom Yorke confided to the audience at the fifth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on Saturday night. Such effusiveness from the English art-rock band's notoriously introspective lead singer was unusual, but then so was the setting: a 700-acre farm outside of Manchester, Tennessee, where 80,000 people had convened for four days of non-stop music, mingling and merriment. Radiohead's appearance was the centerpiece and high point of a wide-ranging festival that included satisfying sets from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Elvis Costello, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah...
...only U.S. festival appearance was significant in several ways, not the least because the band is touring this summer without a new album to promote or a record label to prod them. Instead, Yorke has surprised fans by releasing a solo work, The Eraser, that predictably triggered rumors that Radiohead was on the rocks. Partly to squelch such speculation and partly to test out new songs that the group recorded over the past year, Radiohead has for the past few months been touring and playing a lively mix of old and new material at smaller venues in Europe...
...Radiohead's appearance at Bonnaroo, known as a mecca for roots rockers, tested the range of Radiohead's appeal. Could a politically charged European band get a groove going with Southern fried hippies who worship Phish and the Grateful Dead? The answer came early in the set, as the crowd cheered and danced to "There, There," from the group's last album, Hail to the Thief, and later too, as the sea of listeners lustily sang along to Radiohead classics like "Karma Police" and "Fake Plastic Trees...
...world," observed Rich, a forty-ish owner of a Nashville construction equipment company who had braved the crowds and the heat to get close enough to watch the band without binoculars. "This is the best thing going on in the U.S. this weekend." As for the notion that Radiohead was too highfalutin' for a festival that was famous for tie-dyed jam-band fans, he said, "I hear their new album is kind of a jam band record - most people don't know that...
...indie-rock flavor, then Coachella is the place. Looking at the long list of smaller bands, there's probably more I'd like to see at Coachella. But if the decision must be based on headliners, then [for me] the scales would be tipped toward Bonnaroo with Radiohead." Opined Elizabeth Brady, in her article on the same site: "Life is full of difficult decisions, and the recent announcements of the lineup for these two festivals is perfectly representative of this theory. And when, like myself, you live nowhere near the locations of either show and getting there is sure...