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Live archive · 2012 · cancelled

Downsview Park, Toronto, Canada

VenueDownsview Park
CityToronto, Canada
TourThe King of Limbs Tour

Show record: Concert Archives.

Cancelled

This night was booked and did not happen. It stays in the archive so the date has an answer, but it is not counted among the shows the band played.

Scheduled here but cancelled after the stage collapsed that afternoon, killing drum technician Scott Johnson; Radiohead never performed.

in the news

  1. 16 June 2012 · the nightDownsview Park, Toronto
  2. 11 April 2019Radiohead say the Scott Johnson inquest verdict falls shortThe jury's recommendations would license Ontario's stage builders and certify its riggers, and Johnson's father has been named to a working group they call for on the live performance industry.
  3. 24 October 2019Doncaster inquest blames poor construction for Scott Johnson's deathSeven years after Radiohead's drum technician was killed in Toronto, a coroner in England has put the cause of the collapse in plain words.
  4. 5 November 2019Radiohead ask those behind the Toronto stage collapse to apologiseTwelve days after a coroner in Doncaster blamed the stage's design and building for Scott Johnson's death, the band and his parents want the people responsible to own it.
  5. 20 November 2020Radiohead say stage engineer's admissions come eight years too lateThe engineer who approved the Downsview Park stage has lost his licence, but the court case that could have tested his evidence in court was stayed three years ago.
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