There were times watching Radiohead’s first UK show for seven years when Ricky Gervais came to mind. As Thom Yorke dad-danced around the circular stage in the middle of the arena, his bandmates all hunched over their equipment – which made it resemble a server room of a call centre – I felt as though I was witnessing David Brent doing the samba around the office.

I have to confess that there are large chunks of Radiohead I simply don’t understand. I am absolutely certain that most of the music that they have released in the past 20 years – and much of the music they performed at the first of four nights at the O2 – would not have drawn out 80,000 Londoners had it not been for the The Bends (1995) and OK Computer (1997), which have become classic rock albums in the same way as Led Zeppelin IV and Wish You Were Here.

Of the 25 songs they played, ten came from those two albums, which felt like just the ratio needed to keep everyone engaged. The hardcore – and there are many of them – will lap up everything, but a band this popular has a lot of non-hardcore........

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