{"id":116970,"date":"2025-09-03T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116970\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:02:13","slug":"radiohead-announce-2025-tour-first-shows-in-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116970\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead Announce 2025 Tour, First Shows in Seven Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s gonna be a glorious day: Radiohead<\/a> have announced their first live performances together since 2018.<\/p>\n

\n\tConfirming months of speculation, the band today announced a set of 20 European shows this fall. They\u2019ll kick off with a four-night run in Madrid starting on Nov. 4, followed by four evenings each in Bologna, London, Copenhagen, and Berlin.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLast year, we got together to rehearse, just for the hell of it,\u201d drummer Philip Selway said in a statement. \u201cAfter a seven-year pause, it felt really good to play the songs again and reconnect with a musical identity that has become lodged deep inside all five of us. It also made us want to play some shows together, so we hope you can make it to one of the upcoming dates. For now, it will just be these ones but who knows where this will all lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTickets for the shows will only be available to fans who have registered at radiohead.com<\/a>. Registration for this purpose opens on Friday, Sept. 5 at 10 a.m. British Standard Time (5 a.m. ET), and closes on Sunday, Sept. 7 at 10 p.m. BST (5 p.m. ET). The actual sale begins on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n

\n\tNews of the tour first surfaced on Reddit<\/a>, after fans spotted<\/a> flyers<\/a> around several of the cities where the band will play. The news was met with equal parts excitement and skepticism from the band\u2019s fanbase. \u201cRadiohead are gonna walk onstage and Reddit will still not believe the tour is real,\u201d one user joked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2025 shows follow the band\u2019s recent release of Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009<\/a>, featuring live versions of nearly all the songs from their 2003 album. The killer live LP was born out of Hamlet Hail to the Thief<\/a>, the 2024 U.K. stage production that mashed up the Radiohead album with the early-1600s Shakespeare play. \u201cI was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played,\u201d frontman Thom Yorke<\/a> said<\/a> of the live recordings. \u201cI barely recognized us, and it helped me find a way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRadiohead\u2019s last tour, which concluded in 2018, was in support of their most recent album, 2016\u2019s A Moon Shaped Pool<\/a>. Since then, the band \u2014 Yorke, guitarists Jonny Greenwood and Ed O\u2019Brien, bassist Colin Greenwood, and Selway \u2014 have kept busy with outside projects, including solo<\/a> albums<\/a> and film scores<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tYorke and Jonny Greenwood formed<\/a> the side project the Smile with former Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner in 2021. They\u2019ve released three Smile albums: 2022\u2019s A Light for Attracting Attention<\/a> and Wall of Eyes <\/a>and Cutouts<\/a>, both released in 2024. Earlier this year, Yorke teamed up with producer Mark Pritchard for Tall Tales<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAmid these non-Radiohead releases, fans have pondered Radiohead\u2019s future, particularly after Yorke spoke to Australia\u2019s Double J<\/a> in Oct. 2024 and addressed the speculation. \u201cI am not aware of it and don\u2019t really give a flying fuck,\u201d he said. \u201cNo offence to anyone and thanks for caring. But I think we\u2019ve earned the right to do what makes sense to us without having to explain ourselves or be answerable to anyone else\u2019s historical idea of what we should be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued: \u201cI don\u2019t think we feel the need to live up to anything. That feels like a non-problem. We are in this privileged position where we are still able to make music because of Radiohead, so no complaints.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHowever, bassist Colin Greenwood revealed late last year that a private reunion had taken place some months earlier. In Dec. 2024, he spoke to Rolling Stone<\/a> about his photo book How to Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead \u2014 and shared details on how the rehearsal went. \u201cIt was just basically to check in with each other, I suppose, because we hadn\u2019t done it for so long,\u201d he told us. \u201cI guess it was also because I think maybe Thom and Jonny were going off to do some stuff [with the Smile]\u2026. It was something we could all do cause we were all around that time. It was just really nice just to run through stuff\u2026 We ran through, like, The Bends. Kid A stuff. We ran through loads of stuff \u2026 We enjoy being with each other. So let\u2019s leave on a high.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThat high is continuing with the new European trek; hopefully, North American dates are on the way.
Radiohead Tour Dates\u00a0
Nov. 4 \u2014\u00a0Movistar Arena, Madrid, Spain
Nov. 5 \u2014 Movistar Arena, Madrid, Spain
Nov. 7 \u2014 Movistar Arena, Madrid, Spain
Nov. 8 \u2014 Movistar Arena, Madrid, Spain
Nov. 14 \u2014 Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy
Nov. 15 \u2014 Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy
Nov. 17 \u2014 Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy
Nov. 18 \u2014 Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy
Nov. 21 \u2014 The O2, London, UK\u00a0
Nov. 22 \u2014 The O2, London, UK
Nov. 24 \u2014 The O2, London, UK
Nov. 25 \u2014 The O2, London, UK
Dec. 1 \u2014 Royal Arena, Copenhagen, DK
Dec. 2 \u2014 Royal Arena, Copenhagen, DK
Dec. 4 \u2014 Royal Arena, Copenhagen, DK
Dec. 5 \u2014 Royal Arena, Copenhagen, DK
Dec. 8 \u2014 Uber Arena, Berlin, Germany
Dec. 9 \u2014 Uber Arena, Berlin, Germany
Dec. 11 \u2014 Uber Arena, Berlin, Germany
Dec. 12 \u2014 Uber Arena, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s gonna be a glorious day: Radiohead have announced their first live performances together since 2018. Confirming months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,34700,34452,65412],"class_list":{"0":"post-116970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-radiohead","13":"tag-thom-yorke","14":"tag-tour-announcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}