2025 Radiohead tour


The 2025 Radiohead tour was a concert tour by the English rock band Radiohead. This tour marked the first time Radiohead touring without releasing any new material. Announced on 3 September 2025, it was their 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.

Background

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, including headline shows at the Coachella, Glastonbury and Primavera Sound festivals. Following the Moon Shaped Pool tour, Radiohead went on hiatus and the members worked on side projects. They abandoned plans to tour in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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".
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.

Announcement

Radiohead announced the tour on 3 September 2025. 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." Laura Snapes of The Guardian wrote that tours usually suggest an upcoming studio album, but that with Radiohead this was not guaranteed.
The tour ran between 4 November and 12 December, with performances in Madrid, Bologna, London, Berlin and Copenhagen. The Copenhagen performances were postponed by two weeks after Yorke developed a throat infection. Radiohead performed in the round, with their stage sometimes obscured by video screen panels. They were joined by the additional drummer Chris Vatalaro, replacing Clive Deamer from earlier tours.

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 distribute tickets "in a fair and geographically convenient way". On 13 November, Radiohead and dozens of other artists signed a letter to prime minister Keir Starmer urging the British government to combat touts.
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. The London shows also generated funds for the Samaritans charity, for which Selway is an ambassador. Radiohead's final London show was attended by 22,355 people, a new attendance record for the O2 Arena.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement called for a boycott of the tour, criticising Radiohead's 2017 performance in Tel Aviv and Jonny Greenwood's recent performances there. According to The Guardian, after reporting on the boycott, Guardian journalists were blocked from receiving tickets to review the first performance on the tour.

Reception

The chief Telegraph music critic, Neil McCormick, gave the first performance four stars. 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." Senior Writer of Rolling Stone magazine Andy Greene described Radiohead's constant changing setlist as giving these shows an exciting, unpredictable energy. Music Journalist of Magnet Magazine, Corey duBrowa, described the band during their performance in Berlin, Germany as, "generational talents and continue to plow a determinedly unique and independent musical furrow, far above the heads of the majority of their musical peers."

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

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Personnel

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