Radiohead announce tour, quiet on new album

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead (Reuters)
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead (Reuters)

Radiohead have announced their first world tour since 2012, but New Zealand isn't on the list.

The closest the English experimental rockers will get is Japan, with the remainder of the dates across North America, Europe and Scandinavia.  

They'll start the tour in Amsterdam in May, with gigs later that month in Paris and London. In July they'll play two shows in New York, followed by two more in Los Angeles in August. Mexico City gets the final two shows of the tour in October.

"These are all the headline shows that the band will play in 2016," a post on the band's website reads.

In between their own shows, Radiohead will be playing at a number of festivals in France, Spain, Iceland, Portugal, Switzerland, Canada, Germany and Japan.

The band hasn't said if their new album will be out by the time it starts, but did tweet an image that could be a possible album cover, bearing the band's name in pink across an abstract background, typical of previous Radiohead artwork.

Radiohead's last two albums, both self-released, were preceded by the band forming a new company -- in October last year they did just that, registering Dawn Chorus LLP.

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