Radiohead have announced that they will be performing multiple shows across Europe later this year, marking their first tour in seven years.
After months of speculating, Radiohead have officially announced that they will be playing shows later this year in Europe.
It’s been seven years since the band took the stage together, so as you can expect, fans in Europe will be rejoicing at the chance to be the first to hear them live again.
Radiohead will be visiting London, Copenhagen, Madrid, Berlin, and Bologna on a limited tour, playing four-night residencies at each venue.
The tour seemed all but confirmed yesterday as users on social media began to spot flyers in their city. Fans were sceptical at first, but would confirm the flyer’s authenticity later in the day. Radiohead would then announce the tour hours later.
Drummer Philip Selway had previously revealed that the band had been rehearsing together last September. Selway would share on the band’s Instagram, writing, “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.”
What’s most exciting about this tour is that Radiohead have historically embarked on limited tours to test newly written material. Fans still argue over whether the live or studio versions of ‘Videotape’ from the album In Rainbows are better to this day.
Earlier this year, the band launched a new business entity (an LLP) that usually signals a tour. The band would later release a new album featuring live recordings from their 2003 album, Hail To The Thief. The recordings were made between 2003 and 2009 and were mixed and mastered by Ben Baptie and Matt Colton.
Following the announcement of the tour, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel have already shared a statement calling for a boycott of Radiohead’s upcoming tour. In a statement, the group would write:
“Even as Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza reaches its latest, most brutal and depraved phase of induced starvation, Radiohead continues with its complicit silence, while one member repeatedly crosses our picket line, performing a short drive away from a livestreamed genocide, alongside an Israeli artist that entertains genocidal Israeli forces,” it read.
“Palestinians reiterate our call for the boycott of Radiohead concerts, including its rumoured tour, until the group convincingly distances itself, at a minimum, from Jonny Greenwood’s crossing of our peaceful picket line during Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”
Thom Yorke would release a statement earlier this year after addressing an incident in Melbourne, Australia, after being heckled with pro-Palestinian remarks by an audience member. Yorke would promptly end the show after the protestor yelled: “How many dead children will it take for you to condemn the genocide in Gaza?”
In his statement, Yorke wrote, “I think Netanyahu and his crew of extremists are totally out of control and need to be stopped, and that the international community should put all the pressure it can on them to cease,” the statement read. “Their excuse of self-defence has long since worn thin and has been replaced by a transparent desire to take control of Gaza and the West Bank permanently.”
You can read his full statement here.
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