Thom Yorke performing with The Smile at All Points East in London on August 28th, 2022 (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)
The Smile played Montreux in July 2022.
Later today, The Smile will premiere their performance at the 2022 Montreux Jazz Festival.
The summer appearance was part of Radiohead pair Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s touring behind their debut Smile album A Light For Attraction Attention – named as one of Live4ever’s top picks of the year.
“Although spirited and direct first single You Will Never Work In Television Again (a spat-out diatribe against Harvey Wernstein) augured well for fans clamouring for a return to The Bends, it sits as an outlier against the songs around it, all of which take their time to burrow into the listener’s consciousness, but do so effectively,” our review reads.
“As with Yorke’s solo material, the atmospherics take prominence. The Same buzzes with unease and dread, that much-vaunted millennial angst of OK Computer now his default setting as he implores ‘people in the streets’ to rise up and unify against our leaders who ‘make one mistake after another’.”
