Radiohead reunited for his or her first tour dates in seven years, kicking off their Europe/UK run at Madrid’s Movistar Area on Tuesday, November 4th.
The tour sees Radiohead performing within the spherical in the midst of the sector, one thing the band hasn’t carried out since opening for Ned’s Atomic Dustbin in 1993. The setlist is dynamic in nature, drawing from an preliminary pool of 65 songs Yorke despatched to his bandmates. For Tuesday night time’s kick-off present, the band performed a 25-song set that kicked off with “Let Down,” the OK Pc single which not too long ago skilled a viral resurgence on TikTok.
From there, Radiohead ran by means of a career-spanning combine that touched on almost each period, together with OK Pc (“Fortunate,” “No Surprises,” “Subterranean Homesick Alien,” “Paranoid Android,” “Karma Police”), Child A (“The whole lot in Its Proper Place,” “The best way to Disappear Fully,” “Idioteque”), Amnesiac (“The Nationwide Anthem,” “You and Whose Military?”), Hail to the Thief (“2 + 2 = 5,” “Sit Down. Stand Up.,” “The Gloaming,” “Myxomatosis,” “A Wolf on the Door,” “There There”), In Rainbows (“Bizarre Fishes/Arpeggi,” “15 Step,” “Bodysnatchers,” “Videotape”), The King of Limbs (“Bloom”), and A Moon Formed Pool (“Ful Cease,” “Daydreaming”). The present concluded with The Bends basic “Pretend Plastic Bushes.”
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The famous reprisal of a number of Hail to the Thief tracks arrives after the band launched a shock dwell album, Hail to the Thief Dwell Recordings 2003 – 2009, earlier this 12 months, which celebrated dwell variations of the album’s songs as they remodeled and mutated through the years of touring them. Thom Yorke labored on an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet re-imagined as Hamlet Hail to the Thief in 2024, which featured a rating of reworked songs from the 2003 authentic.
Radiohead will proceed with their run of 4 reveals in Madrid on Wednesday, November fifth. They’ll then play by means of mid-December with subsequent four-night stands in Bologna, London, Copenhagen, and Berlin. See the complete schedule beneath.
After a number of years away from Radiohead — together with spells with Radiohead offshoot The Smile, numerous movie scoring tasks, and different solo endeavors from the band’s 5 members — the group convened in 2024 for some informal rehearsals. They formally introduced their 2025 UK/European tour in September, with drummer Philip Selway commenting that the group wishes to “reconnect with a musical identification that has turn out to be lodged deep inside all 5 of us.”
In an in depth profile with The Sunday Occasions final month, Radiohead’s members detailed their tour, confirming it might be staged within the spherical and promising that setlists would differ all through the run (“We’ve got too many songs… we’re opposite bastards,” Yorke stated). The band additionally mirrored on their years away from the street: Yorke shared that he by no means correctly grieved the lack of his late spouse, Rachel Owen, whereas Ed O’Brien attributed the hiatus to burnout and psychological well being challenges. The group additionally addressed criticism for not explicitly condemning Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. “I completely respect the dismay, but it surely’s very odd to be on the receiving finish,” Yorke stated, whereas Jonny Greenwood lamented, “The one factor I’m ashamed of is that I’ve dragged Thom and the others into this mess — however I’m not ashamed of working with Arab and Jewish musicians. I can’t apologize for that.”
Although the band confirmed they’re blissful to be reunited, they haven’t supplied any updates on new music — or whether or not this tour will function Radiohead’s closing outing. “We haven’t thought previous the tour,” Johnny Greenwood admitted. “I’m simply shocked we received this far,” added Yorke.
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Radiohead Setlist:
Let Down
2 + 2 = 5
Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.)
Bloom
Fortunate
Ful Cease
The Gloaming. (Softly Open our Mouths within the Chilly.)
Myxomatosis. (Choose, Jury & Executioner.)
No Surprises
Videotape
Bizarre Fishes/Arpeggi
The whole lot in Its Proper Place
15 Step
The Nationwide Anthem
Daydreaming
A Wolf on the Door
Bodysnatchers
Idioteque
Encore:
Pretend Plastic Bushes
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Paranoid Android
The best way to Disappear Fully
You and Whose Military?
There, There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)
Karma Police
Radiohead 2025 Tour Dates:
11/05 – Madrid, Spain @ Movistar Area
11/07 – Madrid, Spain @ Movistar Area
11/08 – Madrid, Spain @ Movistar Area
11/14 – Bologna, Italy @ Unipol Area
11/15 – Bologna, Italy @ Unipol Area
11/17 – Bologna, Italy @ Unipol Area
11/18 – Bologna, Italy @ Unipol Area
11/21 – London, UK @ The O2
11/22 – London, UK @ The O2
11/24 – London, UK @ The O2
11/25 – London, UK @ The O2
12/01 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Area
12/02 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Area
12/04 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Area
12/05 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Area
12/08 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Area
12/09 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Area
12/11 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Area
12/12 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Area
