Thom Yorke Debuts New Song, Radiohead Deep Cuts On First Show Of 'Everything' Tour

Thom Yorke’s everything tour arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand, last night, and with it, the Radiohead and The Smile frontman and solo artist premiered a new song called Back In The Game and played deep cuts from throughout his decades-long career.

As for Back In The Game, the track is an industrial banger that finds Yorke noodling away on a synth and drum machine – not unlike much of Radiohead and Yorke’s later career output.

According to the YouTube description, the song is set to be a collaboration with electronic artist Mark Pritchard, who Yorke worked with on the 2016 number Beautiful People.

In addition to the live debut of Back In The Game, Yorke unveiled the live solo debuts of Radiohead banger Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box and solo tracks Volk and Hearing Damage (the latter can be heard on the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack).

Other Radiohead songs included Weird Fishes / Arpeggi, I Might Be Wrong, Bloom, How To Disappear Completely, Daydreaming, Present Tense, Everything In Its Right Place, Bodysnatchers, and Karma Police. Check out the setlist here.

Check out some clips of Back In The Game, Packt, and Hearing Damage below.

This weekend, fans in Melbourne and Sydney can find two pop-up stores in their respective cities celebrating Yorke’s first-ever solo tour of Australia.

Both stores will run concurrently from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, 26 October, at Honey Bones Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne, and China Heights Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney.

Thom Yorke’s Australian shows take place at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl (Tuesday, 29, and Wednesday, 30 October) and the Sydney Opera House Forecourt (Friday, 1, and Saturday, 2 November). After the Australian shows, he’ll head to Singapore and Japan.

Yorke will perform songs from throughout his expansive career for the everything tour. He described the shows as follows: “In the autumn in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and Japan, I will be alone on stage trying a new kind of solo show thing, playing versions of songs from my recent and not-so-recent past.”

Fans will get to witness him perform Radiohead, The Smile, and solo tracks on stage alone, accompanied only by synth machines, a piano, guitars, and a microphone.