Radiohead at the Outside Lands Festival
San Francisco
Zoe and I drive to the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco to see Radiohead
The Background
I got started taking each of the kids to a major concert when I took Kate to see NSYNC in Philadelphia back in 2000 when we were on our family trip. In the summer of 2007 I took Robert to the Oakland Coliseum to see the Police. So it was Zoe's turn and we decided to go to see Radiohead at the Outside Lands Festival at the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park.
The original plan was to drive with Zoe's friend from water polo, Ruthie Oliver, and her father. The mother would drive and then pick us up after the show. As it unfolded, they were not going to leave until 3:30 and as I thought about it it seemed like we would never get there early enough if we left that late. I could see we wouldn't get there until nearly seven with traffic and everything.
Getting There
Amazingly we left Sacramento just a minute or two before 12. We stopped at the In-N-Out in Davis for lunch. We made it to the 5th and Mission garage by 2:15 and we were on a #5 bus heading out to the park by 2:45. We stopped at the San Francisco Center to use the restroom and bought some Mrs. Fields cookies for the concert. It took about 45 minutes to get out there. We got out at Fulton and 25th Avenue. On the bus we met a guy form Scotland who came to SF and worked out his holiday around the show. He came in on Tuesday and even drove up and spent a night up in Sacramento at the Delta King.
Into the Festival
We walked into the park and into the festival and evetually found the Lands End stage at the far end of the Polo Field. This by the way was the same place I finished my first marathon in 1980.
We set up out blanket and chilled. I went first to check out the merch and bout a $35 Outside Lands Tshirt. I went to the restroom aand then went back and then Zoe went out and bought two shirts!
We take our claim to our spot on the grass.
Steel Breeze @ 5 p.m.
Manu Chao at 6:45
Radiohead@ 8 p.m.
The crush toward the stage. Waiting for the show to start.
The show begins. "15 Step" "How come I end up where I started; How come I end up where I went wrong; Won't take my eyes off the ball again; You reel me out then you cut the string."
Radiohead Set List - Friday, August 22, 2008
1. 15 Step In Rainbows
2. Reckoner In Rainbows
3. Airbag OK Computer
4. There There Hail to the Thief
5. All I Need In Rainbows
6. Nude In Rainbows
7. Talk Show Host Romeo and Juliet soundtrack
8. National Anthem Kid A
9. The Gloaming Hail to the Thief
10. Videotape In Rainbows
11. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi In Rainbows
12. Idioteque Kid A
13. Karma Police OK Computer
14. Jigsaw Falling Into Place In Rainbows
15. Just The Bends
16. Exit Music (for a film) OK Computer
17. Bodysnatchers In Rainbows
Encore:
18. Pyramid Song Amnesiac
19. You And Whose Army? Amnesiac
20. Paranoid Android OK Computer
21. Fake Plastic Trees The Bends
22. Everything In Its Right Place Kid A
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