Ed O'Brien says Radiohead's 2021 live plans were pre-coronavirus

Radiohead have no plans for now, Ed O'Brien has told Jacqui Swift of The Sun. What happens next with Radiohead? I don't know. We've been talking about live dates next year but that was pre-coronavirus. So we are just checking in.¹

His own album, Earth, comes out today. His first reflex was to wonder what the band would think, until he decided their approval is not the be-all and end-all. He has not played it to them, and none of the other three, he points out, ever asked the band's opinion of their solo records.

In February he told The Face there might be a couple of Radiohead shows in 2021. The band have not played since the A Moon Shaped Pool tour ended in 2018, and Thom Yorke's spring dates in the United States have already been put back to the autumn. Whenever Radiohead do tour again, O'Brien expects them to do it differently. Touring was good but not for the planet. We'll have to be adaptable.¹