Originally from Lawton, Benjamin Curtis played drums for Dallas alt-band Tripping Daisy and UFOFU before starting The Secret Machines with his brother Brandon and Josh Garza.

Now he’s with Alejandra Deheza in the decidedly shoegazey, ambient-rocking act School of Seven Bells, which just released its third studio album, Ghostory; on Vagrant Records last week.

Get a taste of the song “Lafaye” in this video below, and stream “Ghostory” below that, if you so desire:

Three hours’ drive to Dallas couldn’t deter a horde of Oklahomans from seeing the state’s most recently successful band play one of the biggest stages of its career last night.

Yes, Other Lives strolled through Dallas on tour with Radiohead, and the result was nothing short of wonderful. Hearing Thom Yorke praise the Stillwater group at the end of his band’s two-hours-plus set seemed like a pretty big victory for Oklahoma.

Check out our photos of Other Lives, and then Radiohead’s set list — which included some odd surprises — below. I’d take the time to write about it, but I’m still a little bit too much in awe from the whole experience to do it justice.

To put it short, however, the evening was light on frenetic Jonny Greenwood guitar moments (I would’ve sacrificed my firstborn for “Electioneering”), and heavy on intricate, deep-groove rhythmics, as Radiohead played heavily from The King of Limbs.



Radiohead set list
“Bloom”
“Little by Little”
“Weird Fishes/Arpeggi”
“Morning Mr. Magpie”
“The Gloaming”
“The Daily Mail”
“Pyramid Song”
“The Amazing Sounds of Orgy” (note: this song failed to inspire any orgy-like behavior amongst the crowd)
“Karma Police”
“15 Step”
“Staircase”
“Identikit”
“Lotus Flower”
“There There”
“Feral”
“Idioteque”
encore break
“Separator”
“Climbing Up the Walls”
“Bodysnatchers”
“Everything in Its Right Place”
encore break
“Give Up the Ghost” (just Yorke and Greenwood)
“Skirting on the Surface”
“Reckoner”
“Paranoid Android”

Pitchfork reports that last night was the band’s live debut of “The Amazing Sounds of Orgy” and “Skirting on the Surface.” Related: Radiohead has an impressive army of nerd-tastic, note-scribbling followers out there.