Radiohead, back on tour: here are the plans for 2027

Radiohead will be back on tour in 2027. Thom Yorke's band have announced twenty-one new shows, all concentrated in Australia and Japan, marking their return to the stage after a 2026 with no live performances.
The group had returned to touring in November 2025, with a new tour after a 7-year hiatus: a series of European dates that also included four shows at the Unipol Arena in Casalecchio di Reno, on the outskirts of Bologna. For now, the 2027 calendar covers only Australia and Japan, and it's unclear whether further dates will be added.

The decision to limit the number of shows had already been hinted at last March by Ed O'Brien. The guitarist explained that Radiohead were considering a particular approach for the coming years: "What we're going to do is visit a different continent every year and do twenty shows a year. No more, no less." O'Brien had nonetheless urged fans to "take it with a grain of salt," while reaffirming the intention not to undertake tours that are too long: "I don't think we'll do more than twenty shows. Because you can't do more than that: these songs are just too powerful. Last year's shows were really emotional. By the end, you were exhausted." The choice reflects a logic of artistic sustainability even more than an organisational one: "We want to give absolutely everything every night. We never want it to look like we're just going through the motions or being forced to carry on without any energy." A stance that also reflects an awareness of their age: "We're not kids anymore."

The question of a possible new album, however, remains unanswered. Radiohead haven't released an album of new material since "A Moon Shaped Pool", released in May 2016: a recording hiatus that, by 2027, will have lasted more than ten years. In a recent interview, Jonny Greenwood said he doesn't know whether a new Radiohead album will ever be made, noting that the spaces for making new music are often the same ones where each member is channelling their creative energies into parallel projects. The guitarist highlighted the creative paradox of years devoted to projects like The Smile (the side project of Thom Yorke and Greenwood himself) and to their individual careers, which now seem to coexist with the desire to get back on stage together, but not necessarily with the desire to record new material.

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