Radiohead are returning to Australia for the primary time in 15 years, saying a 16-show enviornment tour for 2027 — a part of a run that would be the band’s solely live shows anyplace on the earth subsequent yr.
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The tour opens with a four-night stand at Perth’s RAC Area from Could 3, earlier than six-show residencies at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Area and Sydney’s Afterpay Area, wrapping June 1. Slightly than a standard nationwide run, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Philip Selway and Ed O’Brien will settle into every metropolis for a number of nights.
The Australian dates, introduced by Frontier Touring, shall be adopted by 5 exhibits in Saitama, Japan, and the band has confirmed there shall be no extra 2027 live shows elsewhere.
The run marks Radiohead’s first Australian tour since 2012 and follows a collection of European residency exhibits in late 2025 — the band’s first performances after a number of years away from the highway, throughout which its members pursued solo and facet initiatives. Hypothesis a few return had been constructing for months, stoked partly by O’Brien, who advised Rolling Stone earlier this yr that the band hoped to make it again. “We’d love to come back to Australia,” he mentioned. “It’s only a query of when.”
Given the anticipated demand, tickets shall be distributed via a registration system protecting each basic and accessible tickets quite than a traditional first-come sale. Registration is open now and closes at 5 p.m. AEST on Thursday, Sept. 10, with Frontier Touring saying each entry submitted in the course of the window shall be handled equally. Every ticket will embody a $2 donation directed to Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
One of the vital acclaimed and influential rock bands of the previous three many years, the Oxford, England, group broke via in 1993 with “Creep,” which stays their highest-charting Billboard Scorching 100 single at No. 34 and was later licensed platinum within the U.S. Although the band has solely thrice reached the Scorching 100 — the others being “Excessive and Dry” and “Nude” — they’ve been a dominant pressure on the album chart. Radiohead have scored 4 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 with Hail to the Thief (2003), In Rainbows (2007), The King of Limbs‘ successor period and 2016’s A Moon Formed Pool, their most up-to-date studio album, alongside landmark information together with OK Laptop and Child A. Six-time Grammy winners, they had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2019.
RADIOHEAD — AUSTRALIA TOUR 2027
Could 3, 4, 6, 7 — Perth — RAC Area
Could 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20 — Melbourne — Rod Laver Area
Could 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, June 1 — Sydney — Afterpay Area
