Radiohead have performed ‘Like Spinning Plates’ for the first time in seven years – check out footage of the live track below.
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Closing out their four-show run at The O2 in London last night (November 25), Radiohead treated fans to an ‘Amnesiac’ classic for the first time on their 2025 comeback tour. The track ‘Like Spinning Plates’ returned to Thom Yorke and co.’s live repertoire towards the tail-end of their career-spanning 25-track setlist.
Following the show’s end, fans took to social media to share clips of ‘Like Spinning Plates’. One X user wrote: “wtf do you mean i just heard like spinning plates live?????”. Other commenters on YouTube wrote: “I hope the attendees appreciate how lucky they are to have got this” and “So jealous. What I wouldn’t give to experience this masterpiece live.”
wtf do you mean i just heard like spinning plates live?????? https://t.co/xiAcIxQ63h pic.twitter.com/ohAAoLs2H4
— chels (@abiiore) November 25, 2025
Taken off the band’s 2001 album ‘Amnesiac’, ‘Like Spinning Plates’ was the result of Yorke flipping an early recording of ‘I Will’, as he felt like that take sounded like “dodgy Kraftwerk”. Thematically, ‘Like Spinning Plates’ was inspired by the early 2000s’ political climate and the feeling of being overwhelmed.
Elsewhere during Radiohead’s final O2 show of their 2025 run, they performed other classics like ‘Airbag’, ‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place’, ‘Ful Stop’, ‘Reckoner’, ‘The Bends’, ‘Pyramid Song’, ‘Myxomatosis’, ‘Bodysnatchers’, ‘Idioteque’, ‘Paranoid Android’ and ‘There There’ among others.
Radiohead’s November 25 setlist at The O2, London was:
‘2+2=5’
‘Airbag’
‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place’
‘All I Need’
‘Ful Stop’
‘Nude’
‘Reckoner’
‘The Bends’
‘Separator’
‘Pyramid Song’
‘You and Whose Army?’
‘Sit Down. Stand Up.’
‘Myxomatosis’
‘No Surprises’
‘Optimistic’
‘Bodysnatchers’
‘Exit Music (For A Film)’
‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’
‘Let Down’
‘Weird Fishes/Arpeggi’
‘Idioteque’
‘Present Tense’
‘Like Spinning Plates’ (tour debut)
‘Paranoid Android’
‘There There’
The night before (November 24), Radiohead introduced the ‘OK Computer’ classic ‘Climbing Up The Walls’ into their setlist. Other recent additions include ‘Optimistic’ and ‘Just’.
Reviewing the band’s first show at the O2 last Friday (November 21), NME‘s Andrew Trendell wrote in a glowing five-star report: “What a show: a visceral energy, a tasteful spectacle, all delivered with a generosity of spirit, Yorke in full rockstar mode as the band trade places to tend to each corner of the venue. For a band once embarrassed by the notion of ‘arena rock’, nobody does it better. A new album and another night like this can’t come soon enough.”
Radiohead are taking a “busking approach” to their current setlists, by playing “any order” of songs they wish, and whittling down their huge catalogue to “about 70 songs”. The band are also performing in the round in the centre of the venue throughout the run of dates.
Radiohead have just eight dates left on their 2025 comeback tour. They’ll next play four shows at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen in early December, followed by four more shows at the Uber Arena in Berlin to close out the tour.
