Radiohead have announced a run of 20 shows to take place in five cities across Europe. The band will play four shows each in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin.
In a message to fans, Radiohead’s Philip Selway said:
“Last year, we got together to rehearse, just for the hell of it. After 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.”
The dates are:
NOVEMBER
04,05,07,08 MOVISTAR ARENA MADRID, SPAIN
14,15,17,18 UNIPOL ARENA, BOLOGNA, ITALY
21,22,24,25 THE O2, LONDON, ENGLAND
DECEMBER
01,02,04,05 ROYAL ARENA, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
08,09,11,12 UBER ARENA, BERLIN, GERMANY
Fans have been speculating that Radiohead would be regrouping after they formed a new business entity titled RHEUK25 LLP — which some interpreted to mean “Radiohead Europe UK 2025” — in March. Shortly after, tickets to a “Radiohead concert of your choice” were included in a Palisades High School fire relief auction, with a source confirming to Resident Advisor that the band had holds for a European residency this fall. In early September, fliers appeared in European cities advertising shows in London and Copenhagen.
News of a Radiohead reunion may not come as a surprise to fans after Colin Greenwood revealed last September that the band had recently reconvened to rehearse. The following month, Yorke addressed speculation that Radiohead was getting back together, telling Australian Broadcasting Corporation that “I think we’ve earned the right to do what makes sense to us without having to explain ourselves or be answerable to anyone else’s historical idea of what we should be doing.”
Radiohead last played a live show in Aug. 2018, when they concluded their “A Moon Shaped Pool” tour in Philadelphia. The trek was in support of their ninth studio album before they split off to pursue side projects. In 2019, Yorke released his solo album “Anima” and last year a pair of records as part of the Smile, his group with Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner. Meanwhile, Jonny Greenwood scored several films including “Phantom Thread” and “Spencer,” while Colin Greenwood toured with Nick Cave, O’Brien released his debut “Earth” in 2020, and Selway put out his third album “Strange Dance” in 2023.
Though the band has been hiatus for some time, they announced last month that they were planning to release a new “Hail to the Thief” live album on Oct. 31. In a release, Yorke said of the project, “In the process of thinking of how to build arrangements for the Shakespeare Hamlet/Hail To The Thief theatre production, I asked to hear some archive live recordings of the songs. I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played. I barely recognised us, and it helped me find a way forward. We decided to get these live recordings mixed and released (it would have been insane to keep them for ourselves). It has all been a very cathartic process. We very much hope you enjoy them.”
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