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June 14th 1994
Perth, Australia - Metropolis
main set
01.You
02.Bones
03.Ripcord
04.Black Star
05.Creep
06.The Bends
07.My Iron Lung
08.Prove Yourself
09.Maquiladora
10.Vegetable
11.Fake Plastic Trees
12.Just
13.Stop Whispering
14.Anyone Can Play Guitar
encore
15.Street Spirit (Fade Out)
16.Pop Is Dead
17.Blow Out
The above tracklist can not be backed up by a recording or a picture of a setlist used on stage. It is based on the recollection of a fan some 15 years later:

"I'm pretty damn certain the setlist is identical to what is played on Astoria, even the encore was the same. It was a wierd gig because a lot of people were just finding out what they were about at the time, Creep being the only big hit for them. As with the Astoria, they played it early in the set (about 5th song in I think) and the crowd loved it but then went a little quiet as they didn't know a lot of the new stuff (The Bends) that they were playing. As per the Astoria, Thom kept apologising for the new material. The Metropolis they played at is in Fremantle (there are two Metropolis nightclubs in Perth)." (ateaseweb.com member AusMakka on november 22nd 2009)
promotion [Anyone Can Play Guitar single (Australian Tour Souvenir edition)] (click for full size)
RADIOHEAD’S first visit to Australia in June 1994 was a right fizzer. Not the band’s fault, you understand. It was just greeted with a small fraction of the enthusiasm unfurled these past 10 days in the 8,000-12,000-seat arenas of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide.
“Yes. We did a whole tour of venues that had sticky floors and smelt of old beer,” Jonny recalls, addressing his mate with a bemused stare.
O’Brien remembers playing to 40 people in Adelaide, a rude awakening after their manic Japanese tour which immediately preceded. But “Creep” had come and gone here, see. It was all over for Radiohead, we figured.
Ed: “It was a bit of a shock. It would’ve been very easy to say ‘Oh f*** this is bollocks’, but we turned it around by the time we hit Sydney and it was more like doing the club gigs we’d been doing a year before.”