When a supergroup decides to play a surprise intimate show in LA, celebrities flock to the gig, and last night’s Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco set at Echoplex was no different. Even though the ‘superaudience’ included Rick Rubin, Danger Mouse, Spike Jonze, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, actress Ellen Page, Muse (Glenn Beck’s new favorite band), and many more, Yorke wasn’t going to let them talk over him while unveiling four new jams: “If you want to have a chat, go fuck off outside, alright?” he said, before starting the piano intro to new song “Open the Floodgates” and adding, “‘cause you won’t get back in.”

Yorke and Friends played 16 songs in about 90 minutes last night and you don’t have to take the word of audience members or reviewers that it was an amazing set because the Internet has been flooded with videos to prove it.

Here’s the setlist with a link to video from every performance:

The Eraser
Analyse
The Clock
Black Swan
Skip Divided
Atoms For Peace
And It Rained All Night
Harrowdown Hill
Cymbal Rush

New Songs:

Open The Floodgates
Lotus Flower
Skirting On The Surface
Judge, Jury, Executioner

Encore:

Paperbag Writer
The Hollow Earth
Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses

“Paperbag Writer”

“Cymbal Rush”

I toyed with the idea of putting the word “supergroup” in the title, but I’ll hold off on that. Let’s just call them “friends.” Very, very famous friends. Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco will join Thom Yorke for two concerts at LA’s Orpheum theater in less than a week. Yorke made the announcement on Dead Air just moments ago (via CoS):

hi
in the past couple of weeks i’ve been getting a band together for fun to play the eraser stuff live and the new songs etc.. to see if it could work!
here’s a photo.. its me, joey waronker, mauro refosco, flea and nigel godrich.

at the beginning of october the 4th and 5th we are going to do a couple of shows at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.
we don’t really have a name and the set will not be very long cuz ..well …we haven’t got that much material yet!
but come and check it out if you are in the area. we’ve also got locals Lucky Dragons playing.
all the best

Do you have a credit card handy? Buy tickets for the shows today at 7AM EST here or here. Yorke & friends may just be dipping their toes in the supergroup waters, but they do have a promo pic (see above) already.

Oh Thom, I knew there was a reason you’ve been dressing for the second coming.