Thom Yorke joined Portishead on stage to play “The Rip” on Saturday, July 18, 2015 at Latitude Festival.
Portishead were headlining the festival on the Obelisk stage when Yorke come out to join them for the song, from their album Third.
Yorke and Jonny Greenwood had previously performed an acoustic version of the song on Radiohead‘s Dead Air Space site.
Yorke also played his own solo set later that night. He appeared at the iArena where he played many tracks from his Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes album, including “A Brain in a Bottle,” “Truth Ray” and “Guess Again!” alongside The Eraser‘s “Harrowdown Hill” and “Black Swan” and his Atoms For Peace project’s “Amok”.
A setlist reports that Yorke also played two unknown songs.
Yorke also has some live shows planned. He’ll perform at Pathway To Paris at Le Trianon theatre in Paris on December 4, 2015.
Pathway To Paris is planned to coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference, which runs in Paris from November 30 to December 11.
Patti Smith is also scheduled to appear on the bill.
Yorke is scheduled to play Tokyo’s Summersonic Festival on August 15, 2015.
Yorke will appear at Hostess Club’s all-nighter in Tokyo, which is part of the Summersonic Festival where he will perform a Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes show.
Recently, producer Nigel Godrich posted a photograph of Yorke in the studio, presumably working on the new Radiohead album.
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