The original version of 'Ingenue', taken from Atom For Peace’s debut album
‘AMOK’, opens with a playful, completely digitally-based stance, which is why
the piano version of this song at first seemed a strange choice. However Thom’s
performance evoked a whole different insight into the song.
The lyrics to ‘Ingenue’ suddenly became more important, and
the focus was on such lines as ‘You got me into this mess’, whilst also
reminding us of Thom’s captivating and eerie vocal chords.
Yorke has been known to hold an audience’s attention in commercially-successful
television settings, and this performance was up there with the best of them.
He also played a Radiohead classic ‘Karma Police’ and
half-way through the song, after the line ‘This is what you get, if you mess
with us’ Thom looked up at Jonathon across the stage and smirked “That’s
probably enough, right?”, giving the wannabe anti-conformists inside of us all
an external smirk also, and an internal “stick it to the man” feeling.
Here is Thom’s performance of ‘Ingenue’ on the Jonathon Ross Show:
