Thom Yorke doesn’t give a “flying f**k” if Radiohead fans want the group to return

There’s no beating around the bush here – Thom Yorke has said he “really doesn’t give a fuck” if Radiohead fans are clamouring for the group’s return.

When asked by Australia’s Double J about renewed speculation about the group’s future and excitement among fans, Yorke replied: “I am not aware of it and don’t really give a flying fuck.”

He went on: “No offence to anyone and err, thanks for caring. But I think we’ve earned the right to do what makes sense to us without having to explain ourselves or be answerable to anyone else’s historical idea of what we should be doing.”

It comes after bassist Colin Greenwood revealed back in September that the group have been rehearsing.

Discussing his upcoming photography book, How To Disappear: A Photographic Portrait Of Radiohead during an appearance in Mexico, Greenwood explained that the band had joined forces together only a couple of months back.

“We did some rehearsals about two months ago in London, just to play the old songs,” he revealed. “And it was really fun, had a really good time.”

But that excitement was to be short lived, after his brother – guitarist Jonny Greenwood – said that the band currently have “no plans” for 2025.

Speaking to NME in a new interview, Jonny was asked about the rehearsals and whether the band were set to tour or release new music next year. He responded: “There are no plans — we’ve lots of individual projects going on at the moment.”

Those individual projects include The Smile – the project of Greenwood, Thom Yorke and Tom Skinner – who released their third album Cutouts earlier this month.

Yorke has also created a new play fusing Shakespeare’s Hamlet and his band’s 2003 album, Hail to the Thief.

Hamlet Hail to the Thief will get its world premiere at the Aviva Studios in Manchester next year, before transferring to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Yorke worked on the adaptation with Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett, with the play described as “a dynamic new version of Hamlet where Shakespeare’s words are illuminated by Radiohead’s album Hail to the Thief re-worked by Yorke and performed live by a cast of musicians and actors.”