Radiohead returns to stage with 20-show European tour

Radiohead will return to the stage next month for a 20-show European run — their first concerts since the end of the A Moon Shaped Pool tour in 2018 — and members say a combination of grief and burnout prompted the seven-year break. The band will play four nights each in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin between November 4 and December 12; all dates sold out shortly after tickets went on sale.

The group said they decided to stop after the 2018 tour because they were exhausted and needed time apart. "I guess the wheels came off a bit, so we had to stop," frontman Thom Yorke said in a recent interview, adding that he had not given himself time to grieve after the death of his former partner Rachel Owen in 2016. Yorke described struggling with how music could both heal and hurt while he worked through trauma, saying at times "the music hurts, because you're going through trauma." Guitarist Ed O'Brien said he had been "effectively over Radiohead" by 2018 and later suffered a deep depression, but that a period of recovery led him to reconnect with his bandmates and the music they have built together.

Preparing for the reunion, the band said they will perform in the...