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Key Points Radiohead reunited in Madrid, performing live for the first time in seven years. The set spanned their entire career, but omitted their hit song "Creep." European tour continues through the year with shows in major cities like London and Berlin. Radiohead is back, and early 2000s alt-rock lovers rejoiced. The British rock legends made their long-anticipated return to the stage Tuesday night, November 4, at Madrid’s Movistar Arena, where they performed together for the first time in more than seven years. The 25-song show marked the official start of their 2025 European tour and longtime fans spent the night reveling in nostalgia. RELATED: How a 2003 Garage Rock Song’s Simple Riff Became the World’s Favorite Chant The band powered through a set that spanned their entire careers, pulling “Sit Down. Stand Up.” from 2003’s Hail to the Thief out of retirement (it hadn’t been played live since 2004) and resurrected “Subterranean Homesick Alien” from OK Computer for the first time since 2017. Those two albums received the most attention, with six songs each being played, while In Rainbows and Kid A each contributed four. Even their most recent release, 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool, made a brief appearance through “Daydreaming” and “Ful Stop.” The band hit nearly every era of their catalog. Fan favorites like “Fake Plastic Trees,” “Let Down,” “No Surprises” and “Weird Fishes / Arpeggi” filled the set before the group closed with a sprawling seven-song encore capped by a sing-along of “Karma Police.” However, their most popular song was missing from the set list. Radiohead has been open about their love/hate relationship with “Creep,” and in 1993, lead singer Thom Yorke admitted that he actually didn’t think the song was very good. “I wasn’t very happy with the lyrics,” York told Rolling Stone during a 1993 interview. “I thought they were pretty crap.” Ed O’Brien, the band’s rhythm guitarist, also spoke about the song with the publication several years later in 2017. RELATED: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Just Announced a Legendary Lineup of Presenters “It’s a good song,” O’Brien told Rolling Stone. “It’s nice to play for the right reasons. People like it and want to hear it. We do err towards not playing it because you don’t want it feel like show business. But we started throwing it in last year.” The Madrid show kicks off a string of European performances scheduled through the end of the year, including multi-night runs in Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin.
