2025 Radiohead tour

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2025 Radiohead tour
Tour by Radiohead
Radiohead 2025 Tour Poster.jpg
Promotional poster
LocationEurope
Start date4 November 2025 (2025-11-04)
End date12 December 2025 (2025-12-12)
No. of shows20
Producer13 Artists [1]

The 2025 Radiohead tour is a concert tour by the English rock band Radiohead. It is their first in seven years. The tour was announced on 3 September 2025, began in Madrid on 4 November and will conclude in Berlin on 12 December.

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Background

Radiohead released their most recent album, A Moon Shaped Pool , in 2016. In 2016, 2017 and 2018, they toured Europe, Japan, and North and South America, [2] [3] [4] including headline shows at the Coachella and Glastonbury festivals. [5] Following the Moon Shaped Pool tour, Radiohead went on hiatus and the members worked on side projects. [6] They abandoned plans to tour in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [7]

In September 2024, the bassist, Colin Greenwood, said that Radiohead had recently reconvened to rehearse. In October, the singer, Thom Yorke, addressed speculation that Radiohead were reuniting, saying they had "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". [8]

In March 2025, Radiohead formed a business entity, RHEUK25 LLP, which some interpreted to mean "Radiohead Europe UK 2025", triggering speculation. Shortly after, tickets to a "Radiohead concert of your choice" were included in an auction to raise funds for a school, with a source confirming to Resident Advisor that Radiohead were booked for a European residency later that year. On 3 September, flyers appeared in European cities advertising shows in London and Copenhagen. [8] [9]

Announcement

Radiohead announced the tour on 3 September, 2025. [9] The drummer, Philip Selway, wrote: "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." [8] The tour began on 4 November and is due to run until 12 December, with performances in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin. [9] Laura Snapes of The Guardian wrote that tours usually suggest an upcoming studio album, but that with Radiohead this was not guaranteed. [10] Radiohead play in the round, sometimes obscured by video screen panels. [11] They are joined by the additional drummer Chris Vatalaro, replacing Clive Deamer on earlier tours. [11]

Ticketing

Tickets must be purchased by registering on Radiohead's website, with most allocated to people living nearest to the venues. Radiohead said the registration was to combat bots and ticket touts, and aimed to distributed tickets "in a fair and geographically convenient way". [10] All ticket sales outside the UK include a €1 donation to Médecins Sans Frontières; Radiohead will match the total donation. The UK ticket sales include a £1 donation to the UK-based trust fund LIVE Trust to support grassroots venues and entertainment. [9]

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement called for a boycot of the tour, criticising Radiohead's 2017 performance in Tel Aviv and Jonny Greenwood's recent performances there. [12] According to The Guardian , after reporting on the boycott, Guardian journalists were blocked from receiving tickets to review the first performance on the tour. [13]

Reception

The chief Telegraph music critic, Neil McCormick, gave the first performance four stars. [14] In Rolling Stone , Angie Martoccio wrote that Radiohead "deliver magic in Madrid ... It would be easy to call this a cash grab, but as they've proved over the past seven years, they don't need to do these shows. This was for the fans." [11]

Set list

The following set list is taken from the concert held on 4 November 2025, in Madrid. It may not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour. [15]

  1. "Let Down"
  2. "2 + 2 = 5"
  3. "Sit Down. Stand Up"
  4. "Bloom"
  5. "Lucky"
  6. "Ful Stop"
  7. "The Gloaming"
  8. "Myxomatosis"
  9. "No Surprises"
  10. "Videotape"
  11. "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"
  12. "Everything in Its Right Place"
  13. "15 Step"
  14. "The National Anthem"
  15. "Daydreaming"
  16. "A Wolf at The Door"
  17. "Bodysnatchers"
  18. "Idioteque"

Encore

  1. "Fake Plastic Trees"
  2. "Subterranean Homesick Alien"
  3. "Paranoid Android"
  4. "How to Disappear Completely"
  5. "You and Whose Army?"
  6. "There There"
  7. "Karma Police"

Tour dates

List of 2025 concerts [16] [17]
Date (2025)CityCountryVenueAttendance
4 NovemberMadridSpain Movistar Arena 68,737 / 68,737
5 November
7 November
8 November
14 NovemberBolognaItaly Unipol Arena TBA
15 November
17 November
18 November
21 NovemberLondonEngland The O2 Arena TBA
22 November
24 November
25 November
1 DecemberCopenhagenDenmark Royal Arena TBA
2 December
4 December
5 December
8 DecemberBerlinGermany Uber Arena TBA
9 December
11 December
12 December

Personnel

Radiohead

Touring member

References

  1. ↑ "Radiohead To Return To The Road With 20-Show European Tour". Pollstar . 3 September 2025. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
  2. ↑ Monroe, Jazz (20 May 2016). "Radiohead in Amsterdam: a tour opener live blog". Pitchfork . Archived from the original on 20 May 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Strauss, Mark (14 March 2016). "Radiohead announce world tour". Pitchfork . Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Wicks, Amanda; Monroe, Jazz (20 February 2018). "Radiohead Announce North American Tour | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Hann, Michael (20 October 2016). "Radiohead are confirmed as first headliners for Glastonbury 2017". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  6. ↑ Dean, Jonathan (25 October 2025). "Radiohead: 'The wheels had come off a bit. We had to stop'" . The Times . Retrieved 26 October 2025.
  7. ↑ Richards, Will (26 April 2020). "Radiohead were planning to tour in 2021 before coronavirus outbreak". NME . Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  8. 1 2 3 Horowitz, Steven J (3 September 2025). "Radiohead Announces First Tour Dates in Seven Years". Variety . Retrieved 4 September 2025.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Hughes, Seren (3 September 2025). "Radiohead confirm first tour in seven years". The Times . Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  10. 1 2 Snapes, Laura (3 September 2025). "Radiohead announce first tour dates since 2018 – and face boycott from pro-Palestine campaigners". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  11. 1 2 3 Martoccio, Angie (5 November 2025). "Radiohead remind the world why we need them at transcendent reunion show". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  12. ↑ Pilley, Max (3 September 2025). "BDS movement call for boycott of Radiohead's 2025 tour". NME . Retrieved 4 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Kassam, Ashifa; Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (4 November 2025). "Their Eras tour? Radiohead play career-spanning set in first concert since 2018". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 13 November 2025.
  14. ↑ McCormick, Neil (4 November 2025). "Radiohead, review: No surprises that they're still in a realm of their own". The Daily Telegraph . ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  15. ↑ Williams, Sophie; Smith, Thomas (4 November 2025). "Radiohead returns for first show since 2018: every song from opening night in Madrid". Billboard . Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  16. ↑ "Europe 2025". Radiohead.com. 3 September 2025. Archived from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  17. ↑ Various citations concerning the attendance and revenue of the tour: