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    Here’s what Radiohead played as they kicked off their 2025 European comeback tour

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    Here's what Radiohead played as they kicked off their 2025 European comeback tour

    Radiohead have returned to the stage for the first time in seven years. Check out the setlist, footage, photos and more from their opening night in Madrid below.

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    It was just two months ago when Thom Yorke and co announced their long-awaited comeback tour  with four nights a piece in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin across the autumn and winter. The band then revealed that their upcoming shows would be played in the round with them taking a “busking approach” to the setlist each night – having rehearsed over 65 songs from their back catalog.

    Fans report that the band’s soundcheck for the opening gigs at Movistar Arena in Madrid saw them run through a full 28 song set. Their actual setlist was just four songs short of that, but still packed with fan favourites and some lesser-played deep cuts tonight (Tuesday November 4).

    Taking to the stage in the round behind a see-through LED screen projecting images of the performance, the Oxford icons kicked off with ‘Let Down’ – which recently charted in the US after going viral on TikTok, much to the band’s surprise.

    From there on, the setlist leaned most heavily on tracks from 2003’s ‘Hail To The Thief’, which was recently revisited for the Yorke co-created Hamlet To The Thief play and archive live album. This included an outing of ‘Sit Down. Stand Up’ for the first time since 2004.

    After that, the setlist was generous with material from ‘OK Computer’ (including the first performance of ‘Subterranean Homesick Alien’ since 2017) and ‘In Rainbows’, alongside a career-spanning banquet. The band are expected to change up their setlist regularly, with fans eagerly awaiting what they drop when they play Madrid again tomorrow.

    Radiohead’s setlist from their first night in Madrid was:

    ‘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’

    Today also saw the band unveil their new merch line from the tour, which is also available online.

    Radiohead have also not released any new music since ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ in 2016. The band also recently spoke out about the chances of new material emerging soon. “I don’t know,” said  Jonny Greenwood, while Yorke added: “We haven’t thought past the tour. I’m just stunned we got this far.”

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    Meanwhile, the band recently reflected on the controversies stemming from their stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict, with Yorke saying the “low-level Arthur Miller witch-hunt” on the subject “wakes him up at night”. This stems back to 2017, when Radiohead were criticised for playing a show in Tel Aviv in 2017. Last year, Yorke got into a clash with a protester at a solo show in Melbourne in 2024. Jonny Greenwood has also been criticised for collaborating with and playing live with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa.

    Thom Yorke from Radiohead performs on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in 2017. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
    Thom Yorke from Radiohead performs on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in 2017. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

    Yorke said he would “absolutely not” play in Israel with the band again, but Greenwood “politely disagreed” with him, calling the backlash “the embodiment of the left”. “The left look for traitors, the right for converts and it’s depressing that we are the closest they can get,” the guitarist shared.

    Due to their stance, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement have argued that the band’s “complicit silence” and support of Israeli performers during the “genocide against Palestinians in Gaza” should lead to a boycott of their upcoming shows.

    In the years since their last album, Radiohead’s Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have released three albums with The Smile, while Ed O’Brien made his solo debut, drummer Philip Selway has been active under his own name and bassist Colin Greenwood released a book of band photos as well as touring with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

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