Radiohead Australia Tour 2027

Radiohead come back to Australia in May 2027 for their first shows here in fifteen years. The band play sixteen arena concerts in three cities: four at RAC Arena in Perth from Monday 3 May, six at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne from Thursday 13 May and six at Afterpay Arena in Sydney from Tuesday 25 May to Tuesday 1 June 2027.

Their last Australian visit was the King of Limbs tour of November 2012, which took in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne after a single night in Auckland. Since then Radiohead released A Moon Shaped Pool (2016), spent several years on side projects and the Smile, and returned to the stage with a European arena tour in late 2025, their first tour in seven years.

Demand was on the scale everyone expected. Tickets were allocated through a registration ballot, went on sale on Tuesday 15 September 2026, and all sixteen Australian shows are sold out. This page sets out the confirmed dates, the band's full history in Australia and New Zealand from the setlist.fm archive, the songs they have played most often here, and what to do if you still need a ticket.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: confirmed dates

The 2027 shows are Radiohead's only announced concerts of the year so far, and they cover just two countries: Australia and Japan. After the sixteen Australian nights, the band play five shows at GMO Arena Saitama in Japan on 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 June 2027. No dates in Europe, the UK, North America or New Zealand had been announced as of 9 October 2026.

The tour opens in Perth, which gets four nights at RAC Arena on Monday 3, Tuesday 4, Thursday 6 and Friday 7 May 2027. It is the first time Radiohead have played Perth since the OK Computer tour in February 1998, when they played the old Perth Entertainment Centre. Melbourne follows with six nights at Rod Laver Arena: Thursday 13, Friday 14, Sunday 16, Monday 17, Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 May.

Sydney closes the Australian leg with six nights at Afterpay Arena at Sydney Olympic Park, on Tuesday 25, Wednesday 26, Friday 28 and Saturday 29 May, then Monday 31 May and Tuesday 1 June 2027. Each city's run follows a pattern of two shows, a night off, then two more.

There is no Brisbane or Adelaide date, both cities the band played in the 1990s, and no New Zealand show, even though Auckland had a Radiohead concert on every previous tour. All sixteen Australian concerts are sold out; any further release of tickets would come through the official channels, not through new dates, unless the band announce otherwise.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: venue guide

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027 at RAC Arena, Perth

RAC Arena is the main indoor arena in Perth, on Wellington Street in the city centre. It opened on 10 November 2012 as Perth Arena, holds about 15,500 people and has a retractable roof; its design was based on the Eternity puzzle.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027 at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

Rod Laver Arena is the centre court of Melbourne Park and one of the city's main concert venues. It opened in 1988 as the National Tennis Centre's centre court and holds up to about 14,200 for concerts with floor seating. It was the first arena in Australia with a retractable roof.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027 at Afterpay Arena, Sydney

Afterpay Arena is the indoor arena at Sydney Olympic Park, opened in 1999 as the Sydney SuperDome and later known as Acer Arena, Allphones Arena and Qudos Bank Arena. It holds up to about 21,000 people and hosted basketball and gymnastics at the 2000 Olympic Games.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: night by night

Monday 3 May 2027 — RAC Arena, Perth. 4 nights are booked at RAC Arena; this is number 1. Their most recent documented Perth show was at Perth Entertainment Centre on 10 February 1998. The tour starts here.

Thursday 13 May 2027 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. This is show 1 of the 6-night stand here. Their previous show at this venue was on 17 November 2012, on the The King of Limbs.

Tuesday 25 May 2027 — Afterpay Arena, Sydney. Night 1 of 6 at this venue. In Sydney, the last documented Radiohead concert was at Sydney Entertainment Centre (13 November 2012). This venue closes the tour.

Before the Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Radiohead first came to Australia and New Zealand in June 1994, on the tour for Pablo Honey, when "Creep" was a hit around the world. The setlist.fm archive lists small rooms: Metropolis in Fremantle on 14 June, Lennie's Tavern in Adelaide on 15 June, The Palace in Melbourne on 16 June, The Roxy in Brisbane on 17 June and Selina's at the Coogee Bay Hotel in Sydney on 18 June 1994. They then flew to New Zealand for Warner's Hotel in Christchurch on 20 June and the Powerstation in Auckland on 22 June.

Those 1994 sets already previewed the next record. The Fremantle and Auckland shows featured "The Bends", "Bones", "Black Star", "Just", "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Street Spirit (Fade Out)", none of which had been released, alongside "Creep", "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "Stop Whispering".

The next visit, in early 1998, was on the OK Computer tour, at the height of the album's acclaim. It began in New Zealand at the New Zealand Expo Centre in Auckland on 28 January and the Queens Wharf Event Centre in Wellington on 29 January. In Australia they played two nights at Festival Hall in Melbourne (1 and 2 February), the Sydney Entertainment Centre (4 February), Festival Hall in Brisbane (6 February), the Adelaide Entertainment Centre (8 February) and the Perth Entertainment Centre (10 February 1998). Sets ran to around 20 to 24 songs, with "Airbag", "Paranoid Android", "Karma Police", "Exit Music (for a Film)" and "No Surprises" at their heart.

In April 2004 Radiohead returned for the Hail to the Thief tour, this time playing only Sydney and Melbourne: two nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on 23 and 24 April and one at Rod Laver Arena on 26 April 2004. Songs from the new album, "There There", "2 + 2 = 5", "Myxomatosis" and "Sit Down. Stand Up.", sat alongside the Kid A and Amnesiac material that Australian audiences were hearing live for the first time.

The most recent visit was the King of Limbs tour in November 2012, months after the stage collapse in Toronto that killed drum technician Scott Johnson and forced the band to reschedule. It opened at Vector Arena in Auckland on 6 November, then played the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 9 November, the Sydney Entertainment Centre on 12 and 13 November and Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 16 and 17 November 2012. Every Australian show that year was 24 songs long, and the set changed substantially from night to night.

Rod Laver Arena is the only 2027 venue Radiohead have played before, on three previous nights. Perth's RAC Arena opened in November 2012, after their last tour, and Sydney's Afterpay Arena, opened in 1999 as the Sydney SuperDome, will be new to them too; the old Sydney Entertainment Centre, where they played five of their Sydney shows, has since been demolished.

The table below lists 24 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Radiohead between 1994 and 2012, with the most shows in Melbourne (6), Sydney (6), Brisbane (3), Auckland (3), Adelaide (2), Perth (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027 setlist: the songs played most often in Australia and New Zealand

Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (1 February 1998 to 17 November 2012), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Paranoid Android — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Airbag — played at 10 of 15 shows
3. Planet Telex — played at 10 of 15 shows
4. Climbing Up the Walls — played at 9 of 15 shows
5. Exit Music (for a Film) — played at 9 of 15 shows
6. Idioteque — played at 9 of 15 shows
7. Lucky — played at 9 of 15 shows
8. My Iron Lung — played at 9 of 15 shows
9. Myxomatosis — played at 9 of 15 shows
10. There There — played at 9 of 15 shows
11. Everything in Its Right Place — played at 8 of 15 shows
12. Fake Plastic Trees — played at 8 of 15 shows
13. Karma Police — played at 8 of 15 shows
14. No Surprises — played at 8 of 15 shows

Before the Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• The King of Limbs (2012): 6 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne.
• Hail to the Thief (2004): 3 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Melbourne.
• OK Computer (1998): 8 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Radiohead formed at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire in 1985 as On a Friday, named after their rehearsal day. The line-up has never changed: Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, keyboards), brothers Jonny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards and other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals) and Philip Selway (drums). They signed to EMI in 1991, and "Creep" from their debut Pablo Honey (1993) became a worldwide hit.

The Bends (1995) raised their standing, and OK Computer (1997) is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums in popular music. Kid A (2000) changed direction completely, bringing in electronic music, jazz and krautrock, and was followed by Amnesiac (2001) from the same sessions and Hail to the Thief (2003), their last album for EMI.

They self-released In Rainbows (2007) as a download for which fans could set their own price, then made The King of Limbs (2011), built from loops and samples, and A Moon Shaped Pool (2016), with Jonny Greenwood's orchestral arrangements. Producer Nigel Godrich and cover artist Stanley Donwood have worked with them since the mid-1990s. By 2011 they had sold more than 30 million albums; they have six Grammy Awards and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

After the Moon Shaped Pool tour, the members worked on solo albums, film scores and, for Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, the Smile. Radiohead returned with a European tour in late 2025, with Chris Vatalaro joining on drums and percussion in place of Clive Deamer. Ed O'Brien said in 2026 that the band had no plans to record new music, so the 2027 shows are a celebration of a catalogue rather than the launch of a new album.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: four nights in Perth

Perth opens the tour, and that alone is unusual: many international tours skip Western Australia or add it at the end. Radiohead have played Perth only twice, at Metropolis in Fremantle in June 1994 and at the Perth Entertainment Centre on 10 February 1998, the final Australian show of the OK Computer tour.

In 2027 the city gets four nights at RAC Arena, opened in 2012 as Perth Arena, with a capacity of about 15,500 and a design based on the Eternity puzzle. The dates are Monday 3, Tuesday 4, Thursday 6 and Friday 7 May, meaning Western Australian fans waited 29 years for a return and then got more nights than Sydney had in 2004 or 2012.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: six nights at Rod Laver Arena

Melbourne has always been a strong Radiohead city. The band played The Palace in 1994, two nights at Festival Hall in 1998, one at Rod Laver Arena in 2004 and two more there in 2012. In 2027 Rod Laver Arena hosts six concerts between Thursday 13 and Thursday 20 May, more than all of their previous Melbourne shows put together.

The arena opened at Melbourne Park in 1988 and holds up to about 14,200 for concerts with floor seating. Its roof was the first retractable roof on any arena in Australia, which matters little in May but explains why the room handles sound better than a typical tennis venue.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: six nights at Sydney Olympic Park

Sydney's six concerts are the last of the Australian leg: Tuesday 25, Wednesday 26, Friday 28 and Saturday 29 May, then Monday 31 May and Tuesday 1 June 2027. They are at Afterpay Arena, the arena at Sydney Olympic Park that opened as the Sydney SuperDome in 1999 and was known as Acer Arena, Allphones Arena and Qudos Bank Arena before taking its current name in 2026.

Every Radiohead show in Sydney since 1998 had been at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in the city: one night in 1998, two in 2004 and two in 2012. Their first Sydney gig, in June 1994, was at Selina's in the Coogee Bay Hotel, a beachside pub room.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: Brisbane, Adelaide and New Zealand

Three places that saw Radiohead on earlier tours are not on the 2027 route. Brisbane hosted them in 1994 (The Roxy), 1998 (Festival Hall) and 2012 (Brisbane Entertainment Centre); Adelaide in 1994 (Lennie's Tavern) and 1998 (Adelaide Entertainment Centre).

New Zealand has had a Radiohead concert on every previous visit: Christchurch and Auckland in 1994, Auckland and Wellington in 1998, and Vector Arena in Auckland in November 2012. As of 9 October 2026 no New Zealand date has been announced for 2027, and the band's next confirmed shows after Sydney are in Japan.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

Radiohead's Australian shows in 2012 were 24 songs long. The second Melbourne night on 17 November 2012 opened with "Lotus Flower", "Bloom" and "There There", visited "The Daily Mail", "Myxomatosis", "Kid A", "How to Disappear Completely", "Nude" and "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", and finished with "Idioteque", "Give Up the Ghost", "Reckoner" and "Everything in Its Right Place". The Sydney nights a few days earlier ended with "15 Step", "Everything in Its Right Place" and "Idioteque".

The band rarely play the same set twice. Across the five 2012 Australian concerts, songs such as "Lucky", "Videotape", "Climbing Up the Walls", "Karma Police", "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" and "Exit Music (for a Film)" appeared on some nights only. Fans attending more than one show in 2027 can expect a similar rotation.

There is no new Radiohead album behind this tour, so the set can draw on any part of the catalogue. The Australian set list for 2027 has not been published; the most-played songs table on this page shows which songs have come up most often in Australia and New Zealand since 1994.

Radiohead Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

Tickets for the 2027 Australian tour were not sold in a normal first-come rush. Fans registered for a ballot between 7 and 10 September 2026, successful applicants were given access, and tickets went on sale on Tuesday 15 September 2026. All sixteen Australian shows have sold out.

If you missed out, the only safe routes are the official resale services linked to the original ticketing outlets and any production releases closer to the dates, when seats held back for staging are sometimes put on sale. Tickets for these concerts are expected to be name-locked mobile tickets, so screenshots, transfers from strangers and social media offers carry a real risk of being refused at the door.

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Radiohead Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

When do Radiohead play Australia in 2027?

From 3 May to 1 June 2027: four nights in Perth, six in Melbourne and six in Sydney.

What are the Perth dates?

RAC Arena on Monday 3, Tuesday 4, Thursday 6 and Friday 7 May 2027.

What are the Melbourne dates?

Rod Laver Arena on 13, 14, 16, 17, 19 and 20 May 2027.

What are the Sydney dates?

Afterpay Arena on 25, 26, 28, 29 and 31 May and 1 June 2027.

Are there tickets left?

No. All sixteen Australian shows sold out after the sale on 15 September 2026. Watch the official resale services and any production releases.

Are Radiohead playing New Zealand?

No New Zealand date had been announced as of 9 October 2026. They last played Vector Arena in Auckland on 6 November 2012.

Are Radiohead playing Brisbane or Adelaide?

No. Brisbane last saw them on 9 November 2012 and Adelaide on 8 February 1998.

When were Radiohead last in Australia?

In November 2012, on the King of Limbs tour, finishing at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 17 November.

Where else are they playing in 2027?

Only Japan so far: five shows at GMO Arena Saitama from 8 to 13 June 2027.