It appears that Radiohead are set to head out on tour at some point later this year.
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As reported by Resident Advisor, allegedly four tickets to a “Radiohead concert of your choice” have been donated by a company called Blueyed Pictures to a Los Angeles fire relief auction run by Palisades High School.
The fire relief auction closed yesterday (March 17), with the listing for the tickets explaining that the highest bidder would be able to choose their preferred city and date “based on the band’s tour schedule”.
The outlet also reported that a close source to Radiohead had confirmed to them that Thom Yorke and co have “placed holds in select European cities for a run of residency gigs this autumn”.
But a spokesperson for Radiohead has since confirmed that Blueyed Pictures does not manage the band and has no affiliation with them. The original Radiohead listing has also now been removed, replaced by a generic offer of “four premier concert tickets” instead.
The bids have been reset too, while promotion of the concert tickets on the school’s Instagram page has been wiped, and any mention of the band’s management participating has been removed.
Radiohead’s last live performance was on August 1, 2018 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, marking the end of their “A Moon Shaped Pool” tour in support of their album of the same name.
The news of the possible confirmation of Radiohead reunion dates comes shortly after the band formed a new legal entity, suggesting they may be planning significant activity in 2025.
Last week, the band created a limited liability partnership (LLP) with the name RHEUK25, which has been something they have done a few times in the past ahead of an album, tour or reissue announcement.
LLPs allow Radiohead to operate their business affairs independently, without relying on the framework of record labels and external companies. No further information has been shared by the band about what the legal move could signify.
All five members of Radiohead – Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway – are listed as officers in the RHEUK25 LLP.
Radiohead have been operating independently since parting ways with EMI/Parlophone after 2003’s ‘Hail To The Thief’. They founded Xurbia Xendless in 2007 before releasing ‘In Rainbows’ in the groundbreaking ‘pay what you want’ format via their website. That album and subsequent releases have been handled in physical formats in partnership with XL Recordings.
The band have been characteristically coy about their future plans recently. Last year, Yorke made headlines by saying he “really doesn’t give a fuck” if fans want Radiohead to return. When asked by Australian outlet Double J about his thoughts on speculation over the band’s future, he replied: “I am not aware of it and don’t really give a flying fuck.”
“No offence to anyone and err, thanks for caring,” he continued. “But I think we’ve earned the right to do what makes sense to us without having to explain ourselves or be answerable to anyone else’s historical idea of what we should be doing.”
That came after bassist Colin Greenwood caught up with NME around the release of his new photo book How To Disappear, and opened up about the band’s reunion rehearsals over the summer.
Colin said at the time: “We got together in the summer just for a couple of days and just ran through all the songs and picked up where we left off in 2018. It was really fun and nice to see everyone. We were going to do three or four days but knocked it on the head after two because it was fine and we could still do it. My brother said that we’d just need a couple of weeks’ rehearsal and we could go on the road, no problem.
“Beyond that, everyone’s heads are focused on finishing up what they’ve been doing. My brother has been unwell and is still recovering. Rehearsals were really fun and amicable, though. We rehearsed in this studio called The Church where we ended up finishing up ‘OK Computer’, so the last time I was there was 1996 recording the bass for ‘Airbag’. There we were, back in Crouch End. It was great, but beyond that get together, I’m sure we’ll get together and make plans – but for what, I don’t know.”
Before then, his brother Jonny shared with NME that he found the rehearsals “fun and natural”, but went on to add that there are “no plans” for anything Radiohead-related in 2025, as the members are focused on “individual projects”.
In other news, Radiohead recently shared a playlist of ‘The Bends’ B-sides and remixes in celebration of the album’s 30th anniversary.
The release of the playlist came after the band shared an unseen live video of one of Yorke‘s solo shows from the time of the release of ‘The Bends’.
Elsewhere, earlier this month, Yorke and Mark Pritchard announced their first full-length album together. ‘Tall Tales’ will be released on May 9 via Warp, which will include the singles ‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’ and ‘Back In The Game’.