Tonight was one of those special nights, when things are so perfect that you never want it to end, where you talk about it for months afterwards because it was so amazing. Radiohead are gonna be good. You can just feel it.

Suddenly there's a roar of adoration as they appear on stage. It was interesting to see a gig begin with an acoustic based Street Spirit, but it was spine chilling, and Thom‘s voice is crystal clear. It was the perfect opening.

From this, they turn the whole thing around, belting into tracks. Bones, Planet Telex, Just, Black Star... Ripping their new album apart with such vigour that their live performance blows the record away.

The presence of the band is felt the whole way through. Thom casually chats with the crowd about how his lyrics have no reference to him or his life and that the girl in the front row has a sexy haircut. Screams from the crowd of “You're a genius” prove that he is just that.

Tracks from Pablo Honey revive the young Radiohead. Creep and Stop Whispering hold up easily to any of The Bends.

As the show progresses the band appear ultra-confident and totally at ease with their adoring audience. Ed O'Brien becomes friendly with the girls on the front row whilst he tears into his guitar and provides a ‘hot’ performance, almost as if he’s making love to his guitar, fondling and stroking every note with facial expressions to match. Thom, meanwhile, is so engrossed in his music, sings each word with such conviction and beauty, that the crowd goes loopy every time he jerks and waves his tiny frame around the stage.

My Iron Lung is the highlight of The Bends live. A mind-blowing arrangement of spooky and chilling vocals with crazed instants of crashing guitars, strobe lights and a completely mental exhibition of crowd surfing that says exactly what you feel like doing.

Radiohead take their show so contentedly through moments of blood-boiling, head-rushing madness to moments that only the performance of Lucky can describe.

This is a top quality, criminally underrated band witnessed here tonight.

“So why have you all come here instead of going to see Oasis tonight?” Well, I think that the perfection of Radiohead and the reaction of a crowd that felt every ounce of passion that this band has to offer answers Thom's question as to what any of us were doing there... Although perhaps the fact that Radiohead piss all over Oasis is the real answer to Thom's question.