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Radiohead Reunion?

Radiohead Reunion?

Radiohead have set up a new legal entity, suggesting they are planning to be active in 2025.

On March 10, the band set up a limited liability partnership (LLP) called RHEUK25, something they have done before when they were about to announce a new album, tour, or reissue.

LLPs allow Radiohead to run their business affairs independently, without relying on a record label structure or outside companies. The band has not shared any further information about what the legal move might mean.

Radiohead's last album was A Moon Shaped Pool, which was released in May 2016, just months after the band set up Dawn Chorus LLP. They most recently did the same with Spin With A Grin LLP, which came out six months before the 2021 Kid A Mnesia reissue was announced, and Self Help Tapes LLP in 2022, ahead of the announcement of The Smile's debut album.

All five members of Radiohead - Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway - are listed as officers of RHEUK25 LLP.

Radiohead have operated independently since parting ways with EMI/Parlophone following 2003's Hail To The Thief. They formed Xurbia Xendless in 2007, before releasing In Rainbows in the pioneering "pay what you want" format on their website. That album and subsequent releases have been released on physical formats in partnership with XL Recordings.

The band have been characteristically low-key about their future plans of late. Last year, Yorke made headlines after saying he “didn’t really care” whether fans wanted Radiohead to return. When asked by Australia’s Double J about his thoughts on speculation over the band’s future, he replied: “I don’t know and I don’t really care.”

“No offense to anyone and, er, thanks for caring,” he continued. “But I think we’ve earned the right to do what makes sense to us without having to explain ourselves or answer to anyone’s historical ideas of what we should do.”

It came after bassist Colin Greenwood sat down with NME for the launch of his new photo book, How To Disappear, and opened up about the band’s reunion rehearsals this summer.

Colin said at the time:

“We just got together for a couple of days in the summer, just ran through all the songs and picked up where we left off in 2018. It was great fun and nice to see everyone. We were going to do a gig for three or four days but we cancelled after two because everything was fine and we could still do it. My brother said we would just need a couple of weeks of rehearsals and we could tour, no problem. Besides, everyone is focused on finishing what they were doing. My brother got sick and is still recovering. The rehearsals were really fun and friendly though. We rehearsed in this studio called The Church, where we ended up finishing OK Computer, so the last time I was there was in 1996 when I recorded bass for Airbag. And here we are again in Crouch End. It was great, but after this meeting, I'm sure we'll get together and make plans - but for what, I don't know." Earlier this week, his brother Jonny told NME that he found rehearsals “fun and natural”, but added that there were “no plans” for anything Radiohead-related in 2025, with the band members focusing on “individual projects”. Meanwhile, earlier this week, Yorke and Marc Pritchard announced their first full-length album together. Tall Tales will be released on May 9 via Warp and will feature the singles “This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice” and “Back In The Game”.