Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, photo by Stevo Rood

Radiohead reunited on Tuesday for their first public performance in seven years. At Madrid’s Movistar Arena, the legendary avant-rock quintet introduced their eagerly anticipated new era through a refreshed stage setup and a carefully curated selection of hits from throughout their discography.

Radiohead emerged in Madrid in the round, encircled by the audience and a towering cage of translucent screens that rose and fell through the course of their performance. The band set off their triumphant return with “Let Down,” the nearly axed standout from Ok Computer that became their fourth Billboard Hot 100 entry in August due to a surge in popularity on TikTok. They continued with “2+2=5,” the first of six inclusions from Hail to the Thief, reflecting their recent surprise archival release Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009 and frontman Thom Yorke’s prior work on Hamlet Hail to the Thief.

The remainder of Radiohead’s 25-song set featured tracks from nearly every album in their catalog, with the lone exception of Pablo Honey; highlights within the mix included “Everything in Its Right Place,” “Bloom,” “No Surprises,” “The National Anthem,” “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” and a once-started “Videotape.” After closing out the main portion of their performance with “Idioteque,” the band returned with a seven-track encore of “Fake Plastic Trees,” “Subterranean Homesick Alien,” “Paranoid Android,” “How to Disappear Completely,” “You And Whose Army,” “There There” and “Karma Police.”

The packed setlist from Tuesday night was drawn from a bank of 65 songs that Yorke compiled to ensure changes for each show, with Yorke, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway taking the lead on nightly curation. They’ll deliver three more shows in Madrid before moving on to Bologna, Italy’s Unipol Arena, London’s O2 Arena, Copenhagen’s Royal Arena and Berlin’s Uber Arena, each of which will host four performances broken into pairs with single nights off in between.

While the seven years since the band’s last onstage appearance have been the longest break in their three-decade history, and enough to inspire some doubts around their reunion, Radiohead’s rabid fan base has been piecing together hints at a return since last year. Early indicators included the group’s formation of a limited liability partnership, RHEUK25 LLP, in March, and a promising interview with Colin Greenwood last September.

“Last year, we got together to rehearse, just for the hell of it,” Selway commented with the initial tour announcement. “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.”

Learn more about the various projects Radiohead’s members have pursued since 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool here.

Radiohead
Movistar Arena – Madrid, Spain
11/4/25
Set:
“Let Down”
“2+2=5”
“Sit Down Stand Up”
“Bloom”
“Lucky”
“Ful Stop”
“The Gloaming”
“Myxomatosis”
“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”
“Karma Police”