Radiohead takes aim at ‘strong and stable’ May
GLASTONBURY (Reuters) — Britain’s Radiohead returned to Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage Friday, 20 years after a legendary performance at the festival, with a set that mocked Prime Minister Theresa May’s election campaign and pulled songs from nearly all of their albums.
The band from Oxfordshire, England, first headlined in 1997, one of the wettest years in the festival’s history, when they lifted a sodden crowd with music from their album “OK Computer.”
Featuring songs about alienation, capitalism and modern technology, the band’s third album sounds oddly prescient in a politically divided and anxious Britain in 2017.
The band opened with “Daydreaming” from last year’s “A Moon Shaped Pool,” followed by “Lucky,” the first of a host of “OK Computer.”
Singer Thom Yorke changed the lyric at the end of the song “Myxomatosis” to “strong and stable,” apparently mocking a slogan that May repeated many times in her campaign.
“See you later Theresa. Shut the door on the way out,” Yorke said, in one of his few addresses to the crowd.