Radiohead are playing their first live shows in seven years with four-night residencies in London, Copenhagen, Madrid, Berlin and Bologna this winter. Rehearsals last year reignited the band's musical identity and motivated the return to performing. Fans must pre-register on Radiohead's website to reduce bots and touts, with most tickets allocated to fans living nearer each show and specific allocations for European and non-European travellers. Tickets distribution will aim to match demand fairly and geographically. Each UK ticket will include a £1 Live Trust levy; €1 per European ticket will go to Médecins Sans Frontières, matched by Radiohead. Fans spotted promotional clues beforehand.
Last year, we got together to rehearse, just for the hell of it. 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.
Hopeful fans will have to pre-register on Radiohead's website to be in with a chance of buying tickets, a move intended to reduce competition from bots and ticket touts. The greater share of tickets will be apportioned to fans living nearer the shows, which they illustrated on a map. There will be allocations for those who wish to travel inside Europe and for those outside Europe, they said. Our aim is to distribute tickets according to demand in a fair and geographically convenient way.
Our aim is to distribute tickets according to demand in a fair and geographically convenient way. The band also said it would include a 1 levy in each UK ticket price in order to support the Live Trust initiative for arenas and stadium concerts to raise funds for struggling grassroots venues. In Europe, 1 per ticket will go to Medecins Sans Frontieres, with Radiohead matching the total raised.
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