Editing Amnesiac (album) (section)

=== Tour ===
[[File:Thom_yorke_radiohead2.jpg|thumb|Yorke in 2001]]
Radiohead first performed ''Amnesiac'' songs on the ''Kid A'' tour, which began in June 2000.<ref>{{cite web|last=Oldham|first=James|date=24 June 2000|title=Radiohead&nbsp;– Their Stupendous Return|url=http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2000&cutting=75|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311100912/http://followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?cutting=75&year=2000|archive-date=11 March 2016|access-date=15 May 2007|website=NME}}</ref> They rearranged the electronic tracks using rock instrumentation.<ref name="Fricke2">{{cite magazine|last=Fricke|first=David|author-link=David Fricke|date=27 June 2003|title=Bitter prophet: Thom Yorke on ''Hail to the Thief''|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bitter-prophet-thom-yorke-on-hail-to-the-thief-20030626|url-status=live|access-date=15 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318111404/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bitter-prophet-thom-yorke-on-hail-to-the-thief-20030626|archive-date=18 March 2017}}</ref> For example, "Like Spinning Plates" was rearranged as a piano ballad.<ref name="p4k3">{{cite web|last=LeMay|first=Matt|date=17 December 2001|title=Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6657-i-might-be-wrong-live-recordings-ep/|access-date=19 March 2012|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> Yorke said: "Even with electronics, there is an element of spontaneous performance in using them ... It was the tension between what's human and what's coming from the machines. That was stuff we were getting into, as we learned how to play the songs from ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' live."<ref name="Fricke2" /> 

On 10 June 2001, Radiohead recorded a concert for a special hour-long episode of the BBC show ''[[Later... with Jools Holland]]'', including a performance of "Life in a Glasshouse" with the Humphrey Lyttelton Band.<ref name="BBC News-2001">{{cite news|date=10 June 2001|title=Radiohead album topples Shaggy|work=[[BBC News]]|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1381866.stm|access-date=4 October 2021}}</ref> The ''Amnesiac'' tour began on 18 June 2001, with Radiohead's first North American tour in three years. It comprised performances in west coast amphitheatres in June, followed by performances in the east and midwest in August.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Pakvis |first=Peter |date=21 June 2001 |title=Radiohead take ''Amnesiac'' on tour |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-take-amnesiac-on-tour-20010621 |url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517021226/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-take-amnesiac-on-tour-20010621 |archive-date=17 May 2014 |access-date=27 July 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The openers were [[the Beta Band]] and [[Kid Koala]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pareles |first=Jon |date=2001-08-09 |title=Rock review: singing of loners but playing to the crowd |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/arts/rock-review-singing-of-loners-but-playing-to-the-crowd.html |access-date=2024-02-28 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Capitol avoided traditional promotion for the tour and instead disseminated information to Radiohead's large online fanbase.<ref name="Observer-2001">{{cite news |date=19 August 2001 |title=How Radiohead took America by stealth |work=[[The Observer]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/aug/19/uk.theobserver |access-date=16 July 2023 |issn=0029-7712}}</ref> Tickets sold out within minutes. ''[[The Observer]]'' described this as "the most sweeping conquest of America by a British group" since [[Beatlemania]], succeeding where bands such as [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] had failed.<ref name="Observer-2001" />

Radiohead hoped to tour the US using a custom-built tent as they had for the ''Kid A'' tour in Europe, but met opposition from [[Clear Channel Entertainment]] and [[Ticketmaster]], which Yorke said had a [[monopoly]] on American live music. Radiohead considered abandoning touring in the US, but felt this would have been a defeat.<ref name="Tribune" /> They instead chose unusual venues, such as [[Grant Park (Chicago)|Grant Park]] in Chicago and the bank of the [[Hudson River]] in New York.<ref name="Tribune" /><ref name="Observer-2001" /> The electronic musician [[Christoph de Babalon]] supported them in Europe.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Ross |first=Alex |date=August 20, 2001 |title=The Rest Is Noise: The Searchers: Radiohead's unquiet revolution |url=https://www.therestisnoise.com//2004/04/mahler_1.html |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214053947/http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/04/mahler_1.html |archive-date=14 February 2008 |access-date=2016-08-02 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |df=dmy}}</ref> Recordings from the ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' tours were released on ''[[I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings]]'' in November 2001.<ref name="Letts2010" />