Radiohead Announce Comeback With First Tour Since 2018: See the Dates

After years of inactivity, Radiohead have reunited to announce a 20-date tour for late 2025. 

The Oxford-formed band will perform across the U.K. and Europe — including a four-night residency at London’s O2 Arena — with shows in Madrid, Bologna, Copenhagen and Berlin in November and December. See the full run below.

Tickets will only be accessible by registering on the band’s website. Registration opens on Friday (Sept. 5) at 10 a.m. BST and runs through until Sunday (Sept. 7) at 10 p.m. BST. The tickets will then go on sale to the general public on Sept. 12.

Writing on the band’s Instagram, drummer 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.”

He continued, “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 will mark the band’s first gigs in eight years; their last live performance was on Aug. 1, 2018 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Radiohead first teased the shows via a series of mysterious flyers, which were distributed around each city the tour is slated to visit.

Radiohead have not released an album since 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool, which they supported with an extensive world tour that included a Coachella headlining slot the following year. It became Radiohead’s sixth No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Album Charts, and hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200. 

A Moon Shaped Pool was the fifth Radiohead album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize, making the four-piece the most shortlisted act in the Prize’s history. It also received a Grammy nod for best alternative music album, while its lead single “Burn the Witch” scored a nomination for best rock song.

In the following years the band have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2018), but otherwise pursued numerous extracurricular projects outside of Radiohead. Drummer Selway and guitarist Jonny Greenwood have worked on a series of film soundtracks, as has frontman Thom Yorke. Guitarist Ed O’Brien’s has shared solo work as EOB, while bassist Colin Greenwood has collaborated and toured with Nick Cave.

Jonny Greenwood and Yorke have also released music as The Smile, which they debuted during a livestream event held by Glastonbury Festival in May 2021. The Smile have released three full-length albums to date, the most recent being 2024’s Cutouts.

During their hiatus, band members have spoken out sporadically about the future of Radiohead. In late 2024, Yorke made headlines when he told Australian outlet Double J that he “really doesn’t give a f–k” about reunion rumors. “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,” he added at the time.

His comments followed a video interview between Colin Greenwood and Hay Festival Querétaro that took place last September, in which the musician revealed that Radiohead had been rehearsing together earlier in the summer. He explained that the band “did some rehearsals in London, just to play the old songs,” adding that “it was really fun, we had a really good time.”

More recently, as Radiohead’s hiatus continued, “Let Down”, a track from the seminal 1997 LP OK Computer, entered the Billboard Hot 100 in August after rising in popularity on TikTok. In 2022, the song featured in the season one finale of the hit Hulu show The Bear, but has soared again online in recent months, with users enamored by its emotional feel.

Here’s the full list of Radiohead’s 2025 tour dates: