Thom Yorke shares menacing live performance of ‘Back In The Game’ collab with Mark Pritchard

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Thom Yorke has shared a live version of ‘Back In The Game’, his new collaboration with Mark Pritchard, recorded in Sydney – watch below.The Radiohead frontman released the song last month on WARP Records, having debuted it during his solo tour of Asia, Australia and New Zealand in late 2024.

It is the latest collaborative work from Yorke and electronic producer Pritchard, after ‘Beautiful People’ in 2016.Now, Yorke has shared the live performance of the song from a show at the Sydney Opera House on November 2, where Pritchard joined him on stage on synths.

Watch the performance, complete with an arresting light display, here:The track sees Pritchard distorting Yorke’s vocals with a H910 Harmonizer, one of the world’s earliest devices for audio digital effects.

It is thought to be part of a full-length collaborative record that the two artists have been working on, but at the time of writing, no details of the potential album have been shared.If it were to come to fruition, it would be Yorke’s first major release since ‘Cutouts’, the latest album by The Smile, the band he formed with Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner.