An acclaimed rock band has performed its first concert in 7 years, and the wait was well worth it.
Radiohead kicked off its reunion tour Tuesday in Madrid, Spain, with a career-spanning set list that included fan favorites, hits and a deep cut. The group played 25 songs, kicking off the show with “Let Down,” which recently entered the Billboard Hot 100 nearly three decades after its release on “OK Computer” thanks to a resurgence on TikTok.
According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Radiohead played the rarity “Sit Down. Stand Up” (from 2003’s “Hail to Thief” album) live for the first time since 2004. The Thom Yorke-led group also played songs from every era, including ”Karma Police,” “Paranoid Android,” “Subterranean Homesick Alien,” “Everything In Its Right Place,” “Idioteque,” “The National Anthem,” “A Wolf at the Door,” “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi,” “Bloom,” “Daydreaming” and the classic “Fake Plastic Trees.”
Consequence of Sound reports the new tour features band members performing in a round in the center of the arena. The setlist is also “dynamic in nature, drawing from an initial pool of 65 songs” that Radiohead could play.
“We have too many songs… we’re contrary bastards,” Yorke told the Sunday Times last month.
Yorke didn’t speak much between songs, according to Rolling Stone. When the band returned for an encore, he responded to the applauding crowd with just two words: “Fair enough.”
Radiohead’s first tour since 2018 will continue Wednesday in Madrid. The trek will also feature concerts in London, Copenhagen, and Berlin.
The band confirmed it was getting back together after months of rumors, largely fueled by a new limited liability partnership created in March under the name RHEUK25 LLP. Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway previously did similar LLPs before announcing new tour dates or releasing music.
“Last year, we got together to rehearse, just for the hell of it,” Selway said in September. “After a seven-year pause, it felt really good to play the songs again and reconnect with a musical identity that has become lodged deep inside all five of us. It also made us want to play some shows together, so we hope you can make it to one of the upcoming dates. For now, it will just be these ones but who knows where this will all lead?”
Radiohead is a Grammy Award-winning art rock band known for is experimental, alternative sound on songs like “Creep,” “Fake Plastic Trees,” “Karma Police,” “Paranoid Android,” and “The National Anthem.” The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 and five of their albums have been named among Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
The band has not released any new music together since 2016’s “A Moon Shaped Pool,” but did drop a live album version of “Hail to the Thief” in August and celebrated the 30th anniversary of “The Bends” by unearthing a rare VHS video of a 1995 concert performance. Since 2018, they’ve still kept busy: Yorke and Jonny Greenwood released three albums as the Smile, Jonny Greenwood scored films like “One Battle After Another,” Selway and O’Brien made solo albums, and Colin Greenwood put together a Radiohead photo book.
“We care quite a bit. And that’s why it felt like a g–damn miracle when the lights dimmed at Madrid’s Movistar Arena for the kickoff to Radiohead’s 2025 European tour, and they took the stage after the longest break of their career,” Rolling Stone said. “It was worth the wait.”
Radiohead concert set list
Nov. 4, 2025 in Madrid, Spain
Let Down
2 + 2 = 5
Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.)
Bloom
Lucky
Ful Stop
The Gloaming. (Softly Open our Mouths in the Cold.)
Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.)
No Surprises
Videotape
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Everything in Its Right Place
15 Step
The National Anthem
Daydreaming
A Wolf at the Door
Bodysnatchers
Idioteque
Encore:
Fake Plastic Trees
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Paranoid Android
How to Disappear Completely
You and Whose Army?
There, There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)
Karma Police
NEW YORK CITY, NY – Ed O’Brien, Thom Yorke, Philip Selway,Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead performs at Madison Square Garden on July 11, 2018 in New York City, NY. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)FilmMagic
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