Jonny Greenwood has no idea whether Radiohead will record again

Jonny Greenwood has told The Times he has no idea whether Radiohead will make another album, and that he is surprised the 2025 tour happened at all, let alone that they all enjoyed it so much. The interview, by Richard Morrison, went online today.

The tour, 20 nights in the round in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin, was the band's first in seven years, and A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) is still their latest album. Greenwood loved going back to songs the band always thought were good and finding that many more people now agree, and playing with Thom Yorke again. But I found it strange not to be doing anything new on the tour. I guess we are all doing new music elsewhere now, so that's where our creative energies are going.⁵ Venues are booked so far ahead that even another tour is a long way off. To do another we would have to decide now, and even then it wouldn't happen for 18 months.¹

Much of Morrison's interview is about the Oscars and the Violin Concerto Greenwood wrote for Daniel Pioro and the Hallé, which has its premiere in Manchester on 26 February. His score for Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is up for Best Original Score on 15 March, his third nomination.

Activists who called for a boycott of the tour over the band's links with Israel had pointed to Radiohead's 2017 show in Tel Aviv. Greenwood says it is very hard to talk about, but that music and art should stand above political concerns. He points to Jarak Qaribak, his 2023 album with the Israeli singer Dudu Tassa, made with Israeli, Iraqi, Egyptian and Syrian musicians. Their two UK shows last June, in Bristol and London, were cancelled after the venues received threats. If I'm supposed to stop working with musicians because I dislike their governments then I wouldn't work with any of them.¹

The fact is, what defines us as musicians isn't our nationalities. But that point doesn't seem to get through.

Jonny Greenwood¹