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"Amateur Night" was the first webcast that Radiohead held, on December 10th 1999. Unfortunately, video footage of this 2 hour long webcast has been entirely lost. The only pieces of information about this webcast that have resurfaced are a few screenshots (courtesy of thomthomthom.com), a purported DJ setlist, and audio of the band's first performance of 'Knives Out'.
Ed remarking in his diary about the webcast:
thursday, december 9th 1999
first 'live' performance in front of an audience for exactly (and strangely) a year........it was early morning so it was the 10th. it started with jonny (aka DJ REQUIRED) and thom's dj set and then a last minute executive decision was made to play 'knives out' around the xmas tree. 'amateur hour' will hopefully become a regular night for us - but will be different each time - there will however be ongoing items like phil's puppet show. for those who don't know what i'm going on about - we did a live web broadcast to about 250 people - courtesy of tim bran and those lovely people at the ninja tunes label.

phil and thom also nailed a wonderful version of 'egyptian song' during the day. thom thinks it's the best thing we've committed to tape, ever.
A tradition for these webcasts is for the individual members of the band to perform mini DJ sets of songs they like. A purported master setlist has been circulating and will be reprinted here. It's unclear who was responsible for each mini-set, however:
  • The Fall - Wrong Place, Right Time
  • The Fall - The Birmingham School of Business School
  • Gescom - Chunge (RMXd by Gescom)
  • Charles Mingus - Freedom
  • Portion from Miles Davis' "Jack Johnson"
  • Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Gimme Dat Harp Boy
  • Scientist - Cloning Process
  • Betty Davis - If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up
  • Autechre - Arch Carrier
  • John Williams - Barry's Kidnapping
  • Syd Barrett - Golden Hair
  • Duke Ellington & Mahalia Jackson - Come Sunday
  • Squarepusher / AFX - Freeman, Hardy & Willis Acid
  • Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
  • Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song for Karen)
  • Prince Buster - Al Capone
  • Unknown Track from Gábor Szabó's "Jazz Raga"
  • Unknown Track from "Nuggets, Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968, Volume 2"
  • Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
  • Can - Pinch
  • Squarepusher - UFO's Over Leytonstone
  • PJ Harvey - The River
  • Global Goon - Rockford
  • Neu! - Hallogallo
  • Francis Lai - La passager de la pluie
  • Oscar Peterson Trio - Brotherhood of Man
  • Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Batacuda
  • Johnny Cash - San Quentin
  • Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F
  • Olivier Messiaen - Turangalîla-Symphonie
  • Ramsey Lewis - Dancing in the Street
  • Boris Pickett - Monster Mash
  • A1 People - Do It
  • Jill Adamson & Mary Elaine - The Mini Moke Song
  • Can - Halleluwah
  • Unknown Track by Popol Vuh
At some point in the webcast, the band premiered 'Knives Out' for the very first time: