Radiohead fans react to 2025 tour ticket codes being sent out. What happens next?

Radiohead fans are reacting as the ticket codes to their upcoming UK and European tour have been sent out.

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The band are due to make their long-awaited return to the stage this November for a run of 20 arena concerts across five cities. It’ll mark their first performances together since 2018.

Kicking off in Madrid, the upcoming trek will also include concerts in Bologna, Copenhagen, Berlin and London. Thom Yorke and co’s return to the UK capital will see them host a four-night residency at The O2 in Greenwich on November 21, 22, 24 and 25.

The only way to secure tickets for the shows was by registering via Radiohead’s official website, with the band allocating the greatest share of tickets to those living near the venues. You can find a full breakdown on how much tickets cost here.

Fans who registered were then waiting to discover if they would receive a special “unlock code”, which would give them the chance to buy up to four tickets for a show at one location of their choosing.

Now, the unlock codes have arrived in people’s inboxes, ahead of the general onsale tomorrow (September 12). Fans who didn’t get a code instead received a rejection email, and they’ve now been reacting on social media.

“If you got a code for radiohead i hope both sides of your pillow are warm forever,” one fan who didn’t get a code wrote on Twitter/X, while another shared a screenshot of them listening to ‘OK Computer’ track ‘Let Down’, alongside the caption: “how i feel rn considering i still don’t have a radiohead code.”

Fans who didn’t receive an unlock code will be added to a waiting list, which will automatically provide access to further ticket sales. Fans may also receive a new unlock code with at least “24 hours’ notice” to be able to purchase tickets. Check out more reactions below.

i got the radiohead code life is worth living pic.twitter.com/eLQrvO9r2I

— leo perlman (@leo_perlman) September 10, 2025

“Thank you for registering your details for tickets to Radiohead Europe 2025.
 
Unfortunately, you have not been randomly allocated an unlock code for this Friday’s sale.” pic.twitter.com/mVRObW95oS

— Tashi (@tkalcem) September 10, 2025

Wondering why @radiohead didn’t use Waste to issue these codes?

Member since the dawn of time, hundreds spent on there for all the band and their solo projects but some tiktokker will get tickets.

Cheers pic.twitter.com/KeGz9zi7zk

— J.P.Riggall (@JPRiggall) September 10, 2025

if you got a code for radiohead i hope both sides of your pillow are warm forever pic.twitter.com/CqREfdFOES

— r (@purgethatpoison) September 10, 2025

Maybe the Radiohead code was the friends we made along the way

— Ronnie (@Ronniesexiest) September 9, 2025

how i feel rn considering i still don’t have a radiohead code pic.twitter.com/8SxXBtJ3GB

— amb (@buffygore) September 10, 2025

If none of my 5 friends got a Radiohead ballot code, just how random was it? I’d love to know what percentage of entries actually got a code, and how many people got codes compared to the available tickets.

— Mr P (@Parksie) September 10, 2025

me bc i didnt get the code for radiohead concert and ive seen people r getting code without actually knowing if they can go FUCK YALL pic.twitter.com/xfixGAoox6

— niki #THANKYOUHARRYJUNE (@monclairdelvne) September 10, 2025

yipppee i got a radiohead code pic.twitter.com/fOZgnHUPFs

— amina ໑̣ (@glowingtomm0) September 10, 2025

Radiohead’s 2025 UK and European tour dates are: 

NOVEMBER
4, 5, 7, 8 – Movistar Arena, Madrid, Spain
14, 15, 17, 18 – Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy
21, 22, 24, 25 – The O2, London, UK

DECEMBER
1, 2, 4, 5 – Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark
8, 9, 11, 12 – Uber Arena, Berlin, Germany

Upon announcing the gigs, drummer Philip Selway said: “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.”

Radiohead began teasing their 2025 shows last week, when a series of flyers popped up in the cities they’ll be visiting.

The band’s most recent live performance was held on August 1, 2018 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. It marked the end of their ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ tour in support of their 2017 album of the same name – which they have yet to follow up.

This March, it was reported that they had “placed holds in select European cities for a run of residency gigs” this year. This came shortly after Radiohead sparked rumours of new music after forming a new legal entity called RHEUK25 LLP.

Bassist Colin Greenwood revealed last year that Radiohead “did some rehearsals” over the summer. However, he later told NME that “it doesn’t mean a tour is imminent”. He added: “I think we’re still a band where people might want to know what might happen next. We’re very lucky to have that.”

Elsewhere, Jonny Greenwood told us that the rehearsals were “fun and natural”, but explained that there were “no plans” for new material. “We’ve [got] lots of individual projects going on at the moment,” he explained.

Frontman Yorke, meanwhile, said around the same time that he “really doesn’t give a fuck” if fans wanted Radiohead to return. The singer, who has been busy with The Smile in recent years, admitted in August that he was “still struggling” to be creative following the COVID-19 pandemic. He was speaking upon the launch of Radiohead’s new exhibition, ‘This Is What You Get’.

In other news, the band have revisited some “archive” recordings from the ‘Hail To The Thief’ era for a new live album. This year, Yorke brought the 2003 record to the stage with his Hamlet Hail To The Thief production.

Meanwhile, the pro-Palestine BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement has called for a boycott of Radiohead’s 2025 tour. The campaign group have said the group have “yet to apologise” for a show in Tel Aviv in 2017, and has criticised Jonny Greenwood’s past performances with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa.

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