Radiohead closed the tour with “Karma Police”

Radiohead closed what was one of the most anticipated and discussed tours of 2025, and they did it with what is probably their most famous song.

The band made up for the two Copenhagen dates postponed due to Thom Yorke’s indisposition, and the last song played was “Karma Police” – a song which, for lovers of statistics, was performed only 10 times in 20 concerts. Among the songs played every evening there are “You and Whose Army?”, “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi”, “Paranoid Android”, “2 + 2 = 5” and – obviously, given the recent rediscovery of the “Ok Computer” song – “Let Down”, which was the first song played in Madrid, at the debut of the tour. Here is the video of “Karma Police” in Copenhagen.

Meanwhile, Nick Cave reviewed Radiohead in his newsletter “Red hand files”, saying he saw them in London, at the O2 Arena, sitting in the audience: “it was the first time I was in the audience at such a big show, and I was struck by the depth of love in the room — people dancing, screaming, crying, hugging, throwing themselves at each other”, later saying he was “moved”:

I was struck by the realization of how powerful live music is — that a group of individuals can come together and create a unique sound, and that people can connect with that distinctive vision as if it were their own experience. I could sense its moral quality — how this singular force has the ability to mend the world with its goodness.
I participate in various spiritual activities — swimming in a lake, going to church, walking in nature, meditating — but none offer the transcendent opportunity of a live concert. It is a form of human activity that radiates goodness, spreading through the crowd and the world like a restorative cosmic force, making things better, keeping the devil at bay. I think Radiohead’s audience responded not only to the music, which was extraordinary, but also to the courage of the musicians — simply having the strength to stand in front of a crowd and offer their souls. Like everyone else present, I was deeply moved and with a sense of humility.

“A Radiohead concert is a place where presences appear and disappear and then return transformed”, we wrote, in our small way, of the first Italian date, last November: here is the review