After seven years away, Radiohead returned to the stage at Movistar Arena in Madrid, Spain, to kick off a 2025 European/U.K. Autumn tour. The night’s show saw Radiohead perform in the round in the middle of the arena, something the band has not done since opening for Ned’s Atomic Dustbin in 1993, (though offshoot The Smile has played in the round in the past few years). Thom York, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Philip Selway, and new touring percussionist Chris Vatalaro started the show surrounded by a circle of billboard-sized translucent video screens wrapped around the stage. The screens projected distorted video feeds of the band members and obscured them from full view for the first 25 minutes of the show, before raising skyward at the start of “Ful Stop”, the sixth song of the 25-track show, functioning as live video monitors for the rest of the evening.
In an extensive pre-tour profile the band stated that each show will have a unique setlist, whittled down from a master list of 65 songs. Radiohead spanned practically its entire catalogue, skipping its 1993 debut “Pablo Honey” (and its smash hit, “Creep”), but touching on everything else, from 1995 follow-up “The Bends” (“Fake Plastic Trees”) to its last new album, “A Moon Shaped Pool” (“Daydreaming”, “Ful Stop”). The band also paid particular attention to 2003’s “Hail to the Thief” (“2 + 2 = 5”, “Sit Down. Stand Up.”, “The Gloaming”, “Myxomatosis”, “A Wolf at the Door”, “There There”), a few months after surprise-releasing an archival album with live performances of the album tracks recorded from 2003–2009.
Perhaps a nod to the band’s newfound popularity among a younger generation, Radiohead opened the show with “Let Down”. The “OK Computer” track recently saw a viral resurgence on TikTok, catapulting it to #1 on the U.K. Indie singles chart 28 years after the album came out. Shortly thereafter, the band also played the first version of “Hail to the Thief” “Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders)” since Coachella 2004,
Radiohead | Movistar Arena | Madrid, Spain | 11/4/25
Setlist: Let Down, 2+2=5, Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.) [1], 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. (It Girl. Rag Doll.), 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
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