Scheduled to go on at 11 30, the band had started precisely on time.
The band had started out in the late eighties, playing at parties around Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge, and nearby New Orleans.
A samba band had started up and the accompanying dancers twirled blazing flame-throwers around their heads.
A local band had started to play music on a floating stage a few hundred metres down river.
Once, absorbing the feeling of a tune at his own speed after the rest of the band had started it, Mr. Haynes waggled the stick in his right hand, playing the air for a minute, like a draftsman preparing to sketch.
Naturally, rumours began circulating that these images were pointing towards a new Radiohead release or Thom Yorke solo project, so to perhaps quash any further speculation, the frontman has now revealed that the band have started to record their ninth studio album.
The band had started work on a follow-up but never got further than pre-production.
Three days later, Ian announced that the band had started the mastering process for the upcoming album.
Taking to the stage at the Olympia, Hughes told fans he wanted to "finish" the gig that the band had started.
Already sensing the limits of their guitar-driven hard rock sound, the band had started to branch out during the making of Mellon Collie, and, after the chart-topping success of the electronic-leaning "1979", the band zeroed in on electronica.
