Watch Thom Yorke premiere new solo material at intimate L.A. show

Celebrating the CD and vinyl reissues of his solo album Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes (which was originally released via BitTorrent in September 2014), Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke played a rare club gig at Hollywood’s Fonda Theatre Tuesday night, backed on glitchy, twitchy computers by longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and Dutch audiovisual artist Tarik Barri.

Superfans in the 1,200-capacity audience (among them Brad Pitt and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich) were so excited for the special event that they shouted, “Thank you!” the moment Yorke and his collaborators took the stage, to which Yorke wryly quipped, “I haven’t done anything yet!”

Among the evening’s highlights were “Impossible Knots,” “Traffic,” and “Not the News” (unreleased tracks that Yorke has performed live in the past) and the live premieres of three brand-new tunes, “I Am a Rude Person,” “Saturdays,” and “Two Feet Off the Ground.” The vibe in the venue was chill, à la Coachella ambient Yuma tent, with Yorke, Godrich, and Barri emerging onstage with little banter and Yorke engaging in little banter throughout the moody, percussive, 90-minute set, seemingly lost in his limbs-flailing, “Lotus Flower”-popularized groovy dancing.

The setlist consisted entire of solo material, aside from “Amok” from Yorke’s short-lived supergroup with Godrich and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Atoms for Peace. But fans didn’t seem to mind the absence of Radiohead songs and chuckled when Yorke replied to one fan’s song request with, “You can [yell] for that all you like, but we’ve only got one more.”

Yorke will play two more U.S. solo shows this week, in Oakland on Dec. 14 and at Houston’s Day for Night festival Dec. 17. His full Fonda setlist is below.

“The Clock”
“A Brain in a Bottle”
“Impossible Knots”
“I Am a Very Rude Person”
“Two Feet off the Ground”
“Amok”
“Not the News”
“Truth Ray”
“Traffic”
“Twist”
“Saturdays”
“Pink Section”
“Nose Grows Some”
“Cymbal Rush”
“Interference”