Radiohead Are Going to “Get Together” Early This Year to Figure Out “What Comes Next”

January 9, 2023

Radiohead drummer Phil Selway has said the band – who have been largely inactive since the tour behind A Moon Shaped Pool wrapped up in late 2018 – are planning to “get together” in early 2023 to plot out their next steps.

In a new interview with Spin, Selway touched on Radiohead’s 2021 release, Kid A Mnesia, an anniversary package compiling 2000’s Kid A and 2001 Amnesiac with a bonus disc of previously unreleased material titled Kid Amnesiae. They also released an interactive virtual exhibition for Kid A Mnesia in November 2021.

Kid A Mnesia exhibition trailer

“We’ve been very focused on the whole Kid A/Amnesiac thing, and I think that’s coming to its natural conclusion, going back through the reissue,” Selway said. “We’re going to get together at the start of [2023], and I’m sure we’re going to start looking at other ideas for what comes next. Hail to the Thief — it’s a long time since that record, isn’t it?”

Hail to the Thief, Radiohead’s sixth studio album, arrived in June 2003, meaning this year will mark its 20th anniversary. A Moon Shaped Pool, Radiohead’s ninth studio album, was released in 2016 and the band members have mostly been involved with other projects ever since.

Last year, singer Thom Yorke and multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood released their first album with The Smile, a side project featuring Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner. Selway is gearing up to release his third solo album, Strange Dance, next month, while guitarist Ed O’Brien released his solo debut, Earth (as EOB), in 2020. Bass player Colin Greenwood has recently been touring as the bass player for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

In 2022, O’Brien appeared to indicate Radiohead would not be reuniting to record new music or perform live anytime soon. “There’s no Radiohead at the moment,” he said. “We could do something in a couple years. We might not. But I think what it has to be, it has to be five people going, ‘I really want to do this again with you.’ And I think at the moment, because we’ve done it for so long, we’re all reaching out and having different experiences. And that should be allowed, and that should be encouraged.”