Radiohead postpone European Tour dates over Thom Yorke health concerns

Radiohead have postponed two dates on their ongoing European Tour due to frontman Thom Yorke suffering from a throat infection.

The canceled dates include a show scheduled for last night and tomorrow at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, now set to take place on December 15 and 16. Other Radiohead shows scheduled to take place this week at the same venue are set to go on as normal.

“We are devastated to have to postpone these two shows at such short notice but Thom has been diagnosed with an extreme throat infection which has made it impossible for him to sing,” Radiohead wrote in a statement. “We have been so blown away by the audience reactions on these dates and are loving being back on stage again; needless to say, we feel terrible that we have been forced to postpone these shows.”

The band made their start as teenagers while in school together in Oxfordshire, and have had commercial success with singles such as 'Creep' and 'Fake Plastic Trees', going on to release nine studio albums. Yorke has had his hand at outside projects as well, such as rock band The Smile formed in 2021 and his solo releases such as Suspiria. 

The European Tour is their first run of shows since 2018 and includes dates in Spain, Italy, Denmark, Germany and the UK. Their live album Hail To The Thief was released this past August. That same month their 1997 track 'Let Down' earned a spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

In September, the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement called for the boycott of Radiohead's music over the band's "complicit silence" on the genocide in Gaza and their history of crossing picket-lines by performing in Israel in 2017 and with band member Jonny Greenwood performing in Tel Aviv in May 2024 .

This past October, the Yorke told the The Sunday Times Magazine he would "absolutely not" perform in Israel now, stating "I wouldn't want to be 5,000 miles anywhere near the Netanyahu regime".

For their ongoing tour, Radiohead had partnered with Médicins Sans Frontières, donating €1 per ticket sale to the charity, with the band to match all donation funds raised.