Ed O'Brien Says Radiohead Will Tour Next Year

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With the announcement that Radiohead would be opening the upcoming season of Saturday Night Live (tune in on September 24th), the immediate assumption was that the carbon-footprint friendly band would take the opportunity of being over here to play some shows. Because, you know, it's been a while. And now guitarist Ed O'Brien has, possibly accidentally, told the world that the band will indeed be touring, but not until 2012.

During an interview with an Argentinian music blog called Al Tuntún, O’Brien alluded to an upcoming tour, saying, "we’re gonna play these songs live, we’re booking some dates at the moment for next year."

We contacted their PR team to find out if this tour will include the U.S., and they told us "nothing confirmed as of yet." But it's their job to say things like that. So until the band comes stateside, we're just gonna revisit that time some of us didn't get in to MTV's $2 Bill Concert:

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on September 9, 2011 1:38 PM

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Pierce Inverarity

They're only a carbon-footprint friendly band cuz nobody will buy their sh*t anymore and the only way they can distribute it is over the internet cuz nobody is willing to put the money up for the packaging, distribution , etc.

Carbon-footprint friendly band = Washed-up losers.

Nic Garcia

Your post is riddled with inaccuracies, old man.

HymietownHero

Yeah, no distributor is willing to bank on a career 13x Platinum rock band.

Here's what I learned from your post: you don't care for Radiohead.