Radiohead to play Toronto again on a North American arena tour

Radiohead will play Toronto in July, their first concerts in the city since 2008 and their first visit since June 2012, when the stage collapsed at Downsview Park before their show and killed their drum technician, Scott Johnson. The two nights at the Air Canada Centre, on 19 and 20 July, are among 16 North American arena dates the band announced on Tuesday on Twitter and on W.A.S.T.E., their site and mail order.

By Saturday demand had added two more. A second night at Chicago's United Center, on 6 July, now opens the run, and a fourth night at Madison Square Garden has been added for 14 July.

Live Nation, Optex Staging and the engineer Domenic Cugliari were charged over the collapse, but the charges were stayed last September because the case had not come to trial in time. Words utterly fail me¹², Thom Yorke wrote at the time. The Toronto shows are promoted by Goldenvoice rather than Live Nation. Ontario's chief coroner is now opening an inquest into Johnson's death.

North America, July and August 2018