Radiohead’s Johnny Greenwood “discovered it unusual” the band didn’t play new materials on their 2025 tour Guitar Contact
Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood has been reflecting on their current tour, and says he discovered it odd that they didn’t play any new materials whereas on the highway.
After a seven-year hiatus, Radiohead reunited and launched into a EU/UK tour final 12 months spanning 20 exhibits. Previous to this, Greenwood had been engaged on orchestral and movie composition work, and regardless that the band loved the stint, it appears a brand new file is unlikely.
Talking to The Occasions, Greenwood shares, “It was nice to revisit songs that we all the time felt have been good and to seek out numerous different folks now agree with us. And it was very nice to be enjoying and listening to Thom [Yorke] once more. However I discovered it unusual to not be doing something new on the tour. I assume we’re all doing new music elsewhere now in order that’s the place our inventive energies are going.”
Requested about the potential for a brand new album from the band, he replies, “I’ve no concept. I imply, I’m shocked that the tour truly occurred and that all of us loved it a lot. However venues get booked thus far upfront. To do one other we must resolve now, and even then it wouldn’t occur for 18 months.”
Lately, Greenwood spoke out towards using his music within the Melania Trump documentary. The documentary was launched on the finish of January this 12 months, and centred round Melania’s life within the days main as much as her husband’s 2025 inauguration.
A piece of music from the rating that Greenwood wrote for the 2017 movie Phantom Thread was used within the doc, and each he and its director launched a press release sharing their unhappiness.
“It has come to our consideration {that a} piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used within the Melania documentary. Whereas Jonny Greenwood doesn’t personal the copyright within the rating, Common didn’t seek the advice of Jonny on this third-party use which is a breach of his composer settlement,” they allege. “In consequence Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have requested for it to be faraway from the documentary.”
Guitar.com reached out to Common for remark.

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