The 2025 Radiohead tour was a concert tour of Europe by the English rock band Radiohead. It was Radiohead's first tour in seven years, with 20 concerts across Madrid, Bologna, London, Berlin and Copenhagen. The tour began on 4 November at the Movistar Arena in Madrid and ended on 16 December at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen. It received positive reviews. Radiohead plan to tour again from 2027.
Radiohead released their ninth 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, Glastonbury and Primavera Sound festivals.[5][6] Following the tour, Radiohead went on hiatus and the members worked on side projects.[7] They abandoned plans to tour in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]
In 2024, Radiohead reconvened to rehearse and explore the possibility of reuniting. The guitarist Ed O'Brien said: "The chemistry was there from the very beginning. I think we always knew that if we got the love between us right, then it all flows from there."[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."[10] In October, the singer, Thom Yorke, addressed speculation of a reunion, saying Radiohead 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".[10]
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.[10][11]
Radiohead announced the tour on 3 September 2025.[11] Laura Snapes of The Guardian wrote that tours usually suggest an upcoming studio album, but that with Radiohead this was not guaranteed.[12] The tour ran between 4 November and 12 December, with performances in Madrid, Bologna, London, Berlin and Copenhagen.[11] Radiohead played a limited run of shows to avoid exhaustion and "going through the motions".[9] The Copenhagen performances were postponed by two weeks after Yorke developed a throat infection.[13]
Radiohead performed in the round, with their stage sometimes obscured by video panels.[14] They were joined by the additional drummer Chris Vatalaro, replacing Clive Deamer from earlier tours.[14] O'Brien said the tour was "very emotional, very profound ... We'd look at one another on that stage, like, 'This is amazing.'"[9] Radiohead plan to resume touring in 2027, performing a limited run of shows on a different continent each year.[9]
Ticketing
Tickets were 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 distribute tickets "in a fair and geographically convenient way".[12] On 13 November, Radiohead and dozens of other artists signed a letter to the prime minister, Keir Starmer, urging the British government to combat touts.[15]
All ticket sales outside the UK include a €1 donation to Médecins Sans Frontières; Radiohead matched the total donation. The UK sales include a £1 donation to the UK-based trust fund Live Trust to support grassroots venues and entertainment.[11] The London shows also generated funds for the Samaritans charity, for which Selway is an ambassador.[16] Radiohead's final London show was attended by 22,355 people, a new attendance record for the O2 Arena.[16]
The chief Telegraph music critic, Neil McCormick, gave the first show, in Madrid, four out of five.[19] 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."[14] Reviewing a Berlin show for Magnet, Corey duBrowa wrote that Radiohead "plow a determinedly unique and independent musical furrow, far above the heads of the majority of their musical peers".[20]
Reviewing a London performance for Mojo, Danny Eccleston wrote that Radiohead "are still unique, and great, and always morphing, sometimes radically, sometimes subtly".[21]NME's Andrew Trendell awarded the London show five out of five and wrote: "For a band once embarrassed by the notion of 'arena rock', nobody does it better. A new album and another night like this can’t come soon enough."[22] The senior Rolling Stone writer Andy Greene said the changing setlists created an "exciting, unpredictable energy".[23]
Set list
The following set list is taken from the concert held on 4 November, 2025, in Madrid. It does not represent all concerts.[24]
12The concerts in Copenhagen on 15 and 16 December 2025 were originally scheduled to take place on 1 and 2 December, respectively, but had to be rescheduled due to Thom Yorke's health concerns.[27]
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