I'm a little late to the party on this one - it happened Thursday night - but I've had no internet for a week and I don't see it on these hallowed pages so why the hell not. Maybe you were trapped down a mine, I don't know, it's not my business.

The event in question was, by all accounts, a blinder, with a jovial Thom Yorke performing a solo set at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in order to raise funds for Green Party MP Tony Juniper. Amongst some classic Radiohead, and material from The Eraser, he also surprised the enraptured crowd with three new tracks that may or may not be from side project Atoms for Peace, his new band he'll be touring the US with in April, also starring Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers and producer Nigel Godrich. This would seem to confirm, in case there was any doubt, that side projects really are the new black. If you can't get a supergroup together in 2010, you really need to have at least one side project on the go.

But I digress, after "Weird Fishes" Yorke told the crowd, “When I was younger I used to go into a shop around here and switch on all the Casio keyboards. It sounded a little bit like this." He then launched into the first of the previously unheard songs, "The Daily Mail", which contained the lyric "No regard for human life", a swipe at the distressingly popular right-leaning, woman-hating British newspaper which recently attracted an almighty backlash for Jan Moir's column in which she backhandedly denounced Boyzone's Stephen Gately in the aftermath of his premature death.

But enough about that bigoted biyatch, on with the new songs...









The full set-list:

1 The Clock

2 The Eraser

3 Weird Fishes

4 The Daily Mail

5 Pyramid Song
6 Harrowdown Hill
7 Lotus Flower

8 Give Up The Ghost
9 These Are My Twisted Words
10 I Froze Up

11 Like Spinning Plates

12 Black Swan

13 Cymbal Rush
14 Videotape

Encore 1:
15 Mouse Dog Bird

16 Reckoner

17 Airbag

18 Atoms For Peace

Encore 2:
19 True Love Waits