All five of Radiohead's Saitama nights are sold out
The band's two official sites agree the tickets are gone, but not on whether any can be passed on.
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Ed O'Brien tells the Barbican about Shakespeare and David Gower
To The Upcoming's reviewer the sold-out London night hardly felt like a gig, with no hits to dance along to and no spectacle.
Thom Yorke pictured in rehearsal for Hamlet Hail to the Thief in London
Alongside Yorke, the pictures take in the production's two co-directors, its choreographer Jess Williams, and actors and musicians from the London company.
Ed O'Brien's Blue Morpho gets three spatial-audio playbacks in Soho
The whole album goes out through a 360-degree sound system on three nights this autumn.
Phil Selway joins the jury of the Folk Album of the Year Award
The 13 judges will choose a shortlist of eight from this year's folk, roots and acoustic albums from Britain and Ireland, with a winner named in February.
Thom Yorke talks songwriting with Harry Styles for Rolling Stone
Yorke tells Styles how “Everything in Its Right Place” came out of a winter when he could not write, and says he could not write another one now.
Thom Yorke says his confidence crashed after Radiohead's 2025 tour
The shows were fun while they lasted, Yorke tells Harry Styles, but he needed months and a return to his solo work before he felt himself again.
Ed O'Brien dedicates “Incantations” to a fan from Indiana in Paris
Between songs in Paris, O'Brien talked to the hall about his day and about not being used to life at the front of the stage.
Radiohead to rehearse in late April, Rolling Stone Italia reports
Talking to O'Brien backstage in Milan, Rolling Stone Italia learned when Radiohead go back to the rehearsal room before Australia and Japan.
Stanley Donwood remakes his 1997 OK Computer poster in colour
The poster first went up on London walls in black and white; this time it comes in bright green and orange, signed, in a small edition.
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october
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Ed O'Brien asks Milan to come and sit with him on the stage
On the tour's only Italian night, O'Brien invited the stalls to join him at the front, until the ushers sent them back to their seats.
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Mojo prints Thom Yorke's 2008 interview on Neil Young
Yorke traces his love of Young back to a magazine that told the teenage singer his demo tape sounded like Neil Young.
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Ed O'Brien opens his Blue Morpho tour at Carré in Amsterdam
The tour's first night mixed the new album with three songs from Earth and one that never made the record.
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Ed O'Brien says writing Blue Morpho was his therapy
Before his Milan show, O'Brien tells Corriere della Sera how making his second solo record helped him work through a depression rooted in childhood.
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Radiohead's Motion Picture House to stay in Mexico City until 27 December
Fans in Mexico City now get two months with the Kid A Mnesia film, instead of the three weeks first planned.
september
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Jonny Greenwood plays Reich's Radio Rewrite at the Royal Festival Hall
Steve Reich's piece built on two Radiohead songs got a Radiohead member on bass, and Greenwood took the solo guitar in Electric Counterpoint as well.
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Second lottery opens for Radiohead's five Saitama nights
Once a seat type at a show is fully applied for, it closes, and the official site says it then gets no general sale.
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Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood take No Go Elevator to Amsterdam
The pair tell Het Parool their drawings began beside The Smile's first album sessions, in a medium that keeps every slip.
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Radiohead's OK Computer, In Rainbows and The Bends climb the UK charts
In the first British chart week after the 2027 tour dates, three of the band's older albums and “Creep” all went up.
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Sharon Horgan ends HBO's Youth on “Everything in Its Right Place”
Sharon Horgan's new comedy closes its first episode on Radiohead, over a mother lying awake beside the son who has just come home.
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Nigel Godrich and Dhani Harrison's Dragonflies release their album
Godrich says the band was really an excuse for two old friends to spend time together, and it now has a record, a live band and dates in Europe.
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Radiohead's Australian dates sell out after a faulty sale day
Fans who missed out can still hope for a few later releases to registered fans, or official resale at face value from next April.
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Jonny Greenwood's In Rainbows Gretsch goes to auction
A guitar Greenwood played in the making of In Rainbows is expected to fetch £15,000 to £30,000 when it comes up for sale next month.
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Philip Selway backs a fund for mental-health support on small tours
Radiohead had therapists on call for their 2025 tour, and the drummer wants the same help for bands still driving the van to small rooms, as they once did.
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Naomi Banks sings Radiohead's unused Bond theme “Spectre” at the Proms
Out of a whole evening of Bond title songs, the theme the film's producers turned down was one both critics singled out.
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Radiohead to play 21 arena shows in Australia and Japan in 2027
The band say their first trip to Australia since 2012 and first headline run in Japan since 2008 is everything they will play next year.
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Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa to open Jerusalem's Oud Festival
It will be Greenwood's first concert in Israel since 2024, when a Tel Aviv show with Tassa brought a call to boycott Radiohead.
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Thom Yorke's Hamlet Hail to the Thief names its Barbican company
After sold-out runs in Manchester and Stratford, Yorke's Hamlet comes to London for the winter, and its Hamlet, its Ophelia and its whole band are coming too.
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Jonny Greenwood is learning a new instrument for Anderson's next film
Greenwood also gives the reason he left Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! so late in the day: he was recovering from sepsis.
august
Radiohead's 2027 return teased in Tokyo and Melbourne
Japan has waited for Radiohead since 2016 and Australia since 2012, and a festival screen and a card left outside a café both point to 2027.
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