Radiohead map out 2012, from ten US arenas to Bilbao and Optimus Alive

Radiohead have added three more dates to their 2012 touring: a second night at the Foro Sol in Mexico City on 18 April, and festival headline slots at Bilbao BBK Live on 13 July and Optimus Alive at Oeiras, near Lisbon, on 15 July. The first Foro Sol night, 17 April, was posted on 23 November, the band's first visit to Mexico City since two nights there in March 2009.

The run of posts on Dead Air Space, the band's blog, began on 7 November with ten American arenas, from Miami on 27 February to Glendale, Arizona, on 15 March. Other Lives, a band from Oklahoma, open every one, and from 1 March the shows fall on alternate days. The Austin date is 7 March at the Frank Erwin Center. Radiohead have not played the city since South Park Meadows in September 1995. There is no California date on the list, and SPIN, Relix and OC Weekly have all taken the gap as a sign that the band will headline Coachella in April; for now it is only a rumour.

The band's last long tour of the States ended in Santa Barbara in August 2008, after a Lollapalooza headline slot, and their only American concerts this year were two nights at the Roseland Ballroom in New York in September. W.A.S.T.E., the band's mail-order and ticketing arm, put some of the arena tickets on sale three days ahead of the general sale, four to a buyer.

Colin Greenwood posted the first European dates on 18 November, four open-air shows in Italy at the turn of June and July, from Rome's Capannelle racecourse to Villa Manin near Udine, and the Wuhlheide in Berlin on 6 July. He signed off very excited to be announcing these, and keep an eye out for more updates¹³. OndaRock says the Italian shows had been rumoured, and denied, before the band confirmed them.

Radiohead are the first act named for the seventh Bilbao BBK Live, which runs from 12 to 14 July at Kobetamendi. Clash says it is their only Spanish show of 2012 and their first time at the festival. They last played Bilbao on 26 May 2001, at the Plaza de Toros de Vista Alegre.

The 2012 dates announced so far