Radiohead lock in long Australia and Japan residencies

Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Saitama take twenty-one nights next May and June — registration-only tickets, some Australian dates already sold out, and no other territories booked for the year.

Radiohead will play twenty-one residency shows across Australia and Japan in May and June 2027, their only confirmed dates for that year. The band set out the run on 7 September 2026: four nights at RAC Arena in Perth from 3 May, six at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne from 13 May, six at Afterpay Arena in Sydney from 25 May, and five at GMO Arena Saitama in Japan from 8 June.

These mark the first Australian headline shows since 2012 and the first Japanese headline dates since 2008. Tickets are sold only through registration on the band's official website, a route chosen to reduce bot and tout activity. Some Australian dates have already sold out. No further 2027 shows are planned elsewhere at this stage. The booking follows the group's 2025 European tour and keeps the live diary deliberately tight.

Residencies, not a whistle-stop tour

The shape of the run matters as much as the destinations. Instead of single nights scattered across a long itinerary, Radiohead have taken four arenas and stayed put — multi-night stands that give both the band and the audience room to breathe. For listeners who last saw them in those countries more than a decade ago, the gap is real: fifteen years since the previous Australian headline dates, and nearly twenty years since their Japan shows. A residency format answers that wait with depth rather than coverage.

Demand has moved quickly. The registration system on radiohead.com is the sole route in, and early sell-outs on parts of the Australian leg show how tightly allocations are being watched. Holding the entire 2027 calendar to these twenty-one nights leaves fans outside Australia and Japan without dates for now. Nothing further has been announced, and the band have not indicated whether other territories will follow later.

A catalogue built for long nights

That live patience sits on a long career. Radiohead formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985 and still comprise Thom Yorke, the brothers Jonny Greenwood and Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway. From 1994 they have worked with producer Nigel Godrich and cover artist Stanley Donwood, a double partnership that has shaped both the records and their visual world. The group's experimental approach has been widely credited with advancing the sound of alternative rock.

The discography on file runs from the early EPs and Pablo Honey in 1993 through singles and further releases of the mid-1990s, on to A Moon Shaped Pool in 2016 — with Burn the Witch, Daydreaming and Ill Wind among the tracks around that album — then the archival KID A MNESIA set in 2021 and, in 2025, Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009). The 2025 live album kept older stage material in circulation just as the band returned to European venues; the Australia and Japan residencies now carry that live chapter forward without, for the moment, a new studio album tied to the dates.

For a line-up that has stayed intact across decades, and for a body of work that rewards repeated listening, twenty-one nights in four rooms are a coherent next step after the 2025 European run. The craft on stage remains the point: fewer cities, more chances to hear the set change, and a ticket gate designed to favour people who actually want a seat. What comes after Saitama in June 2027 is unannounced. For now the map stops at Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Saitama — and at registration on the band's site.