Advertisement of tickets at a charity event cited band dates; group also created a new legal entity with the five members
THE Radiohead It can return to active in 2025. After registration of a new company with the five members of classical formation, a charity auction held by a school in the United States fueled rumors of a new tour.
The school PALISADES High Schoolfrom Los Angeles, promoted a collection auction for fire victims in California, closing last Sunday, March 17. One of the auctioned items, offered by the company Blueyeed picturesannounced four tickets to “Any Radiohead tour show”with the promise that the buyer could choose city and date, “According to the band’s agenda”.
The announcement was removed shortly after the disclosure that Blueyeed Pictures has no relationship with the group. According to representatives of Radiohead, the company has no official affiliation with the band. The offer was replaced by a generic pack of “four tickets for premium show” and the mentions to Radiohead were excluded from the school’s social networks.
Even with rectification, the site Resident Advisor He reported that a source close to the band confirmed that the group reserved dates in some European cities for a series of presentations in the fall of the Northern Hemisphere, which corresponds to the second half of 2025.
The movement takes place days after the company’s registration RHEUK25 LLPacronym that refers to “Radiohead UK 2025”, with Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway listed as directors. The group has already adopted this strategy previously, creating legal entities shortly before important announcements, such as the launch of Moon Shaped Pool (2016), the reissue of Kid a mnesia (2021) and the parallel project The SmileThom and Jonny in 2022.
Radiohead’s last show took place in August 1, 2018in Philadelphia, ending the album tour Moon Shaped Pool.
Encounters rekindled rumors
In an interview with NME, Colin Greenwood revealed that the band met in the European summer from 2023 for informal rehearsals. The group revised the repertoire and tested its dynamics in the studio, in the same space where it finished the album OK COMPUTER (1997).
“We gathered for a few days, played all the songs and continued where we stopped in 2018. We could rehearse for a few weeks and be ready for the road without problems.”said Colin.
Already Jonny Greenwoodalso in an interview with NMEhe stated that the rehearsals were “fun and natural”, but stressed that there were no concrete plans at the moment, with members focused on individual projects.
In 2023, Thom Yorke He told Australian channel Double J that he does not care about public expectations:
“We did enough to have the right to follow at our own pace, without explaining or being charged for historical ideas of what we should do.”
Source: Rollingstone
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