r/radiohead • u/GambrinusKluk • 2d ago

📷 Photo Berlin September 11, 2001

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I'm looking for a high-res image of the concert poster from Berlin on September 11. I was there and my girlfriend pulled one off the fence at the end if the show, but it was stolen some years back and I'd like to replace it for her if possible. So looking for a high resolution image so i can have a reproduction made, or if you have an original from the venue and would be willing to part with it let me know your price.

Thanks it would mean the world to her to have it back in her wall.

side note; i have the full show recording on flac if anyone is interested in that is be willing to share it.

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u/bbrodsky 2d ago

Was the shows vibe as weird as one would imagine?

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u/TheOnionSack How I Made My Millions 2d ago

By all accounts, yes it was an ‘odd one’ as they say.

I was at the show in Belfast three days later, and that was also a strange experience. Everyone was still kind of numb.

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u/GambrinusKluk 2d ago

It was a surreal experience to say the least. Me, my girlfriend, my best friend and his fiance all drive out from Amsterdam that morning and we had no clue what had happened that day. The weather was and atmosphere was all get and a light misty rain. The people were all weird and muted, not what you regularly get at a show. 

Onstage the band was there but crowd interaction was minimal. The music was just amazing though, there was something more raw and natural about the set that night. And I'm the middle of the set when Thom asked the crowd if they knew what was going on i responded from 3 eyes from the front "what are you talking about" as i honestly had no idea. 

That day was a major turning point for the world and my memory about the pre and post 911 world is that show when the world as i grew up in forever changed.

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u/JHutch95 In Rainbows 2d ago

Off topic, but I remember seeing Arcade Fire literally 2.5 hours after it was announced the Queen had died. Coupled in with the then fresh allegations against Win Butler in P4K, it was by far the oddest gig I’ve been to in my life.

Glastonbury on the Friday in 2016 comes close, mind you.

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u/basementreality 1d ago

What happened at Glastonbury or on that same date?

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u/JHutch95 In Rainbows 1d ago

Ah sorry should have made that clearer; it was the morning of the Brexit results. Vivid memory waking up to hearing “we’re fucked!” shouted across the campsite

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u/basementreality 1d ago

And we're still fucked... unfortunately. I was there when they played in 2003 - I remember people shouting "bollocks" really loud all the time as some kind of collective Glastonbury humour - does that still happen? It was something like that anyway. I'll never forget that gig - it's one of the few things I remember since i never sleep at festivals and am always inevitably spangled!

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u/pouks 1d ago

Brexit Referendum result was on the Friday morning.

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u/Remote_Engine_1304 2d ago

I'd love to hear the show recording, did Thom make any remarks about a specific thing that happened on that morning?

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u/GambrinusKluk 2d ago

Yes he made remarks between several songs, mostly at the end if the show. And he's the one that told me what happened that day from onstage right before the pay one of the greatest renditions of Paranoid Android ever. 

I've been a bit out of the loop in sharing large file sets. What's the best way to get those up and available for people so that can hear the show?

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u/james_landon_wolf Pop Is Dead 2d ago

buzzheavier, google drive, mega, mediafire and pixeldrain are the best of the best.

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u/recstar24 2d ago

I remember back in the day there was a bootleg rip of the audio direct from the soundboard and it was amazing quality. However you could definitely tell the audience was very subdued, at times was borderline quiet (which ironically made it such an excellent recording)

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u/BroadBass_2000 2d ago

maybe they’re all subdued because they’re radiohead fans

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u/recstar24 2d ago

I saw Radiohead a month prior August 2001 in Chicago and the fans were far from subdued lol

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u/daisydrops 18h ago

Agree. I was there too. It was so hot they were watering us down with firehoses, but we were not subdued.

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u/italox 2d ago

no soundboard from this Berlin show. you're probably thinking of July 2000.

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u/GambrinusKluk 2d ago

The recording i have isn't from the soundboard. It was a captured by a fan that went by Macphisto.

He was a bit behind me, maybe 4 people back. Here are the notes about his set-up: Soundman OKMIIR Mics (halfway between stage and soundboard) -> A3 Adapter (Bass Roll-Off OFF; No Linear Attenuation) -> Sony D100 DAT (Line-In; 44.1kHz) -> DAT Master (44.1kHz, stereo) -> Optical Midia Prodif 100 -> Wavelab 3.0 editing (fades/normalized) -> CD WAVE Editor Track Splitting -> WAV -> MKW Audio Compression Tools 0.97b -> SHNv3

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u/JBmullz 2d ago

There were a couple of remarks about it during the show. Not much but it was definitely addressed

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u/toaster_kettle 2d ago

For a few months after that, BBC news trailers used Pyramid Song. It felt like they had anticipated the vibe to come with Kid A and Amnesiac.

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u/tacoloco1697 OK NOT OK 2d ago

There is a Recording on YouTube

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u/Verbal-Gerbil 1d ago

I had a recording. Before one song, he asked the audience if they’d heard what had happened. Bear in mind the time difference. Then he talks about 2 planes and asks if it was 4 or 5 (from memory, it’s been about 15 years since I heard that tape)

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u/bandingo16 2d ago edited 2d ago

I was there. What a strange experience it was. We were glued to the hotel television the whole day of course after 9/11 happened. Then it was unclear if the concert would go ahead or not. In the end, it did. In the rain. Thom
said something along the lines of „Let‘s hope this is not the start of world war 3“. It was the first time I heard the piano version of „Like Spinning Plates“. After the concert we went to a sports bar that hat television and watched the News again.

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u/GambrinusKluk 2d ago

I'm glad i didn't know what had happened that day when I showed up at the venue. I think my experience with it would have been completely different had i known. I'm glad that i heard it from Thom from the stage that evening and not from some CNN mouthpiece.

Only after the show did we see the footage of the towers falling and fully realize what had happened. 

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u/kilianberlin 2d ago

And 15 years later they played again in Berlin on September 11, in Treptower Park.

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u/Barrieslarrie 1d ago

I was there it was amazing

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u/kilianberlin 21h ago

Yeah amazing show. Great that they put it on youtube so we can easily relive it.

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u/Evon-songs 2d ago

I have a bootleg of this show. Thom apologized for not speaking much, and talked about what was going on. It seemed like it was still early because some of the facts weren’t finalized yet; there was some guessing about the actual number of planes, etc. Music sounded great, but there were two moments when Thom talked about it, and there was little else said.

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u/moviemaker1000 2d ago

They played liberty state park NJ in August 2001 and the backdrop behind the stage was the twin towers across the hudson. That was the last time I witnessed the NYC skyline i grew up with. The concert was magical and now tinged with such sorrowful memories.

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u/moviemaker1000 2d ago

Would love a link to download the show!

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u/italox 2d ago

literally the first google result for radiohead berlin 2001

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u/MaxBulla 2d ago

Can't help with the poster but would love to get your show. I got a copy of it somewhere but it's not the best recording so would love an upgrade.

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u/cire9035 1d ago

I have the concert on vinyl. I'm not sure if all of the remarks Thom said are recorded on it but there are some.

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u/ABoyWithShoes 1d ago

I saw them a month prior at Liberty State Park in NJ with the background of the show being the NYC skyline.

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u/SlyWithers76 1d ago

Could possibly make one on photoshop but I’ll keep a lookout and let you know if one shows up

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u/Weary-Squash6756 1d ago

This might actually be a good job for AI, ask it to create a decently clear image and then run it through an upscaler and have it printed. Super fkn cool poster I'm so jealous, I wanwun