Radiohead Milk The Wealthy For The Poor In Hollywood

Radiohead’s benefit concert for Haiti was held last night at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, raising over half a million dollars for the obliterated island nation. Sure, we’re a bit irked that the only people who could afford to go were celebrities and the rich assholes on the waiting list to buy $100 Kings of Leon T-shirts, but hell, it was for a good cause.

Approximately $572,754 was raised at the rare one-off show, where the minimum price for a ticket was $475. Radiohead played a two-plus hour catalog-spanning set of 24 songs, which means that the band made $23,864.75 for Haiti for each song they played at the show. Well done. The money will go to Oxfam, devoted to getting supplies and essentials for the people in Haiti.

A highlight of the show was the band’s latest offering, an unreleased track called Lotus Flower:

Radiohead setlist

Faust Arp
Fake Plastic Trees
Arpeggi
National Anthem
Nude
Karma Police
Kid A
Morning Bell
How To Disappear Completely
Wolf at the Door
The Bends
Reckoner
Lucky
Body Snatchers
Dollars & Cents
Airbag
Exit Music (For a Film)

Encore #1:
Everything In Its Right Place
You and Whose Army?
Pyramid Song
All I Need

Encore #2:
Lotus Flower
Paranoid Android
Street Spirit