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Radiohead fans are bracing for disappointment ahead of tickets going on sale on Friday for their 2025 UK and Ireland tour dates.
The rock band, who were formed in 1985, will take to the stage at the O2 Arena in London this November for four shows.
Eager fans had been invited to register for an ‘unlock code’ to access tickets before the general sale on Friday.
However, it’s now been revealed there are more codes than tickets as many fans missed out on a spot in the presale.
The terms and conditions revealed: ‘Organiser anticipates that the number of Unlock Codes made available for each Venue will be equivalent to 120% of the aggregate number of tickets available for that Venue (across all performances taking place at that Venue).’
This means there will be a higher proportion of unlock codes than there will be spaces at the venue.
Radiohead fans are bracing for disappointment ahead of tickets going on sale on Friday for their 2025 UK and Ireland tour dates
The rock band, who were formed in 1985, will take to the stage at the O2 Arena in London this November for four shows (pictured in 1996)
Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Radiohead for comment.
While every fan with an unlock code might not secure tickets, the sheer number of codes means some buyers may only be able to buy one, two or three tickets, as opposed to the maximum allowance of four under their ticket code.
Some fans have taken to web forum Reddit and attempted to do the math as others shared their theories.
One hypothesised: ‘It means if a venue has 100 people capacity and they are playing four nights, they will give out 100×120%x4=120×4=480 unlock codes.’
Another wrote: ‘You’re gonna have 120% of the venues capacity all trying to get 2-4 tickets each. I’m no mathematician but around 25-30% of people are gonna get tickets that have codes’.
Meanwhile, the band are facing boycotts from pro-Palestine fans after guitarist Jonny Greenwood performed in Tel Aviv.
Pro-Palestine fans have threatened to boycott the tour after guitarist Jonny Greenwood performed in Israel in May last year.
Greenwood played at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv in 2024 with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa whom he had collaborated with on their 2023 album, Jarak Qaribak.
Eager fans had been invited to register for an ‘unlock code’ to access tickets before they were released for general sale on Friday
The band’s 2025 UK and Ireland tour will be their first in seven years, with diehard fans desperately trying to get their hands on tickets
Fans have been left devastated after failing to secure tickets
The album included reworkings of Middle Eastern love songs recorded in Tel Aviv and Oxfordshire and the ensemble also featured musicians from Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and Iraq.
Greenwood previously defended his choice to play in festivals in Europe with Tassa, saying in a statement: ‘I’ve been collaborating with Dudu and releasing music with him since 2008 – and working privately long before that.
‘I think an artistic project that combines Arab and Jewish musicians is worthwhile. And one that reminds everyone that Jewish cultural roots in countries like Iraq and Yemen go back for thousands of years, is also important.’
He added: ‘Silencing Israeli artists for being born Jewish in Israel doesn’t seem like any way to reach an understanding between the two sides of this apparently endless conflict.’
Earlier this year, Greenwood and Tassa’s collective had to cancel two UK performances after reports of credible threats to the gigs.
Greenwood said at the time that they ‘dread the weaponisation of this cancellation by reactionary figures as much as we lament its celebration by some progressives’.
Radiohead performed in Tel Aviv on their last tour in July 2017, despite calls to cancel the performance.
