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Radiohead Skips NYC, But Maybe Getting Home From Newark Won't Kill You?
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 5, 2012
Modified Mar 5, 2012
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Once again, our precious Radiohead has bypassed Madison Square Garden in favor of, uh, greener pastures in New Jersey. The last time the greatest band in human history performed in an arena conveniently located for important, time-pressed New Yorkers, it was 2006 at Madison Square Garden (their impossibly-sold-out Roseland shows in November don't count, and we're not counting Occupy Wall Street either). A number of east coast tour dates were announced today, and the closest Radiohead will get to NYC is the Prudential Center in lovely downtown Newark. PATH train, here we come!
Thankfully, the Prudential Center is just two blocks from Newark Penn Station, and connected to Newark Broad Street Station by "frequent, convenient bus service." (Check out the map below.) And you can take the PATH directly to the arena from any of the PATH stations in Manhattan; it supposedly takes about 40 minutes to get there from 33rd Street. But what about getting home after the last notes of "Street Spirit" have dissolved exultantly into the mellow house music? According to the venue's website, "the PATH coordinates with Prudential Center in an effort to accommodate late night customers returning from scheduled events."
Tickets go on sale March 8th for the band's two nights in Newark, on May 31st and June 1st. They'll also play a third show in New Jersey, in Camden, on June 13th! Guess Radiohead just loooooves the Garden State. Fine. We guess we should just be grateful they're not playing the Meadowlands—never forget what happened to those poor, poor U2 fans in 2009.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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