Video: Yorke Debuts New Songs in LA

Premieres "Open the Floodgates", "Lotus Flower", "Skirting on the Surface" and "Judge, Jury, Executioner" Friday evening at the Echoplex club.

By Blurt Staff

Hitting the web over the weekend was footage of Thom Yorke and his ad hoc new "band" - Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, drummer Joey Waronker, and multi-instrumentalist Mauro Refosco (Forro in the Dark) - performing at Los Angeles' Echoplex club as a warmup date for the Sunday and Monday night concerts at the Orpheum.

According to Pitchfork, Yorke & Co. did his solo album The Eraser from start to finish, then for an encore Yorke came out by himself to do three brand new songs: "Open the Floodgates" (on piano), "Lotus Flower" (guitar), "Skirting on the Surface" (piano). For a second encore the band came out to join Yorke on another unreleased track, "Judge, Jury, Executioner"; Ateaseweb.com noted that "the latter is also the alternate title of Radiohead's ‘Myxomatosis' (from Hail To The Thief), but several people have confirmed it's a completely new song." Three more songs were then done: Radiohead's "Paperbag Writer" plus "The Hollow Earth" and "Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses," both of which comprise the new 12" single.

Videos of the new songs are below - "Open the Floodgates", "Lotus Flower", "Skirting on the Surface," "Judge, Jury, Executioner".