Radiohead 2012 world tour statistics

In a move sure to please all the diehard Radiohead fans out there, a fansite titled Radiohead At Ease has crunched the numbers and come up with a definitive collection of stats relating to the band’s 2012 The King Of Limbs world tour.

If you’re another crazy Radiohead fan who caught them when they toured Australia in November last year, then have a look below to see where else Thom Yorke and co. ventured, what they played, how long they played for and even which songs were debuted live in 2012.

Final Statistics: Radiohead 2012 (via Radiohead At Ease)

57 shows

Miami, Tampa, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Austin, St. Louis, Kansas City, Broomfield, Glendale, Seattle, San Jose, Santa Barbara, Coachella 1, Mexico City 1, Mexico City 2, Coachella 2, Mansfield, Newark 1, Newark 2, Washington DC, Cincinnati, Cuyahoga Falls, Bonnaroo, Tinley Park, Auburn Hills, Camden, Montreal, Nimes 1, Nimes 2, Bilbao, Lisbon, Taipei, Jisan, Fuji Rock, Quarry of St. Triphon, Rome, Florence, Bologna, Codroipo, Berlin 1, Berlin 2, Manchester, London 1, London 2, Paris 1, Paris 2, Amsterdam, Cologne, Strasbourg, Antwerp, Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney 1, Sydney 2, Melbourne 1, Melbourne 2

17 countries visited

USA, Mexico, Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand, Australia

54 different songs played

(Including True Love Waits and Hunting Bears snippets; not including the Everything In Its Right Place intros)

Longest show: 25 songs/140 minutes (Bonnaroo)

Shortest show: 20 songs (Coachella 1, Bilbao)

Most other non-festival shows have featured 23 or 24 songs (except for Kansas City and Auckland which featured 22 songs).

Album Breakdown

To organize some of these numbers into meaningful-ish groups we’ve created a group for the material Radiohead have released since The King of Limbs (TKOL+), B-sides/Other (including These Are My Twisted Words), and then all the new songs. 1/12 means one song from that album’s twelve songs were played.

Pablo Honey – 0/12

The Bends – 2/12

OK Computer – 7/12

Kid A – 6/10

Amnesiac – 6/11 (including Hunting Bears snippet)

Hail To The Thief – 5/14

In Rainbows – 8/10

The King Of Limbs – 8/8

The King Of Limbs+ – 3/4

B-sides/Other – 5

New Songs – 4

New Song Frequency

Identikit: 34 performances

Ful Stop: 10 performances

Skirting On The Surface: 2 performances (3 including the ACL performance)

Cut A Hole: 2 performances

Live Debuts (excluding new songs)

The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy: 4 performances

Meeting In The Aisle: 4 performances

Treefingers: 2 performances

Songs Played At Every Concert: 3

Bloom, Lotus Flower, Reckoner

Songs Played Only Once: 3

Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box, Subterranean Homesick Alien, A Wolf At The Door

Last show with a “tour debut”: Amsterdam, October 14 (the song was A Wolf At The Door)

48 of the tour’s 54 songs were played during the first 17 shows (the first 2 North American legs). Six songs were introduced during the final 40 shows of the year.

Opening Songs: 3

Bloom (35)

Lotus Flower (21)

Lucky (1)

Closing Songs: 7

Idioteque (18)

Paranoid Android (14)

Everything In Its Right Place (12)

Street Spirit (6)

Reckoner (5)

Karma Police (1)

Exit Music (for a film) (1)

Idioteque closed just 3 of the first 17 shows when the band mixed up the final song quite regularly. But during the final third of the tour Idioteque became a regular closing song.

Everything In Its Right Place intros

True Love Waits (14)

After The Gold Rush (Neil Young cover) (6)

The One I Love (REM cover) (6)

Unravel (Bjork cover) (6)

Small Axe (Bob Marley cover) (2)

Electrolite (REM cover) (1)

Notable 2012 Absences

Fake Plastic Trees, Just, My Iron Lung, No Surprises, Morning Bell, 2+2=5, Where I End And You Begin, Jigsaw Falling Into Place

Appearances by the Red Pants: 4

The last red pants appearance was in Cuyahoga Falls, quite early in the tour. What happened to the red pants is 2012′s greatest mystery. If you need more detailed Red Pants stats, head here.

Protests by Westboro Baptist Church: 1 (debuted in Kansas City)