Two gigs were postponed in the Danish capital due to Thom Yorke's "extreme throat infection"
By Max Pilley 2nd December 2025
Radiohead, live in Madrid, 2025. Credit: Alex Lake
Hundreds of Radiohead fans came together for a karaoke party after the band cancelled a show in Copenhagen – watch footage below.
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Yesterday (December 1), the group announced that their first two concerts in the Royal Arena in the Danish capital had been postponed after frontman Thom Yorke contracted an “extreme throat infection”.
AdvertisementShows on Monday and Tuesday (December 1 and 2) have been delayed to December 15 and 16, with tickets being automatically transferred to the new dates and refunds available from point of purchase. The December 4 and 5 dates are still set to go ahead as planned.
Fans in Copenhagen may have been disappointed, but they did not allow the news to stop them from having a good time. One Reddit user suggested during the day on Monday that they should “channel that disappointment into some Radiohead karaoke”, and said he had reserved a bar in the city centre.
The room suggested on the Reddit page was listed as having a capacity of 25, but as Cory McLeod confirmed to NME, they far exceeded that number.
“We made a Radiohead party in a karaoke bar in Copenhagen and around 1000 people turned up,” he said. “It was packed all night! This was the best alternative for everyone who travelled so far to be there.”
Check out footage from the night here:
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Announcing the postponements, Radiohead said: “We are devastated to have to postpone these two shows at such short notice but Thom has been diagnosed with an extreme throat infection which has made it impossible for him to sing.”
Advertisement“We have been so blown away by the audience reactions on these dates and are loving being back on stage again; needless to say, we feel terrible that we have been forced to postpone these shows.”
They recently completed four sold-out nights at The O2 in London, and set a new record for fan attendance – surpassing that of Metallica, who have held the title since 2017.
At those London gigs, £1 from all ticket sales was donated to the LIVE Trust – supporting artists, venues, promoters, festivals and grassroots spaces. There were also charity volunteers on site to collect donations for Samaritans. For the European shows, 1€ from every ticket is being donated to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
Their first show at the O2 was given a five-star review from NME, with Andrew Trendell writing: “What a show: a visceral energy, a tasteful spectacle, all delivered with a generosity of spirit, Yorke in full rockstar mode as the band trade places to tend to each corner of the venue.
“For a band once embarrassed by the notion of ‘arena rock’, nobody does it better. A new album and another night like this can’t come soon enough.”
