Thom Yorke’s New Band Announce US Tour

Thom Yorke has revealed a string of US tour dates with his new band. Yorke revealed that the five-piece, who feature Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco as Yorke‘s backing band, will embark on a short US tour under the name Atoms For Peace, the title of a song on Yorke‘s solo album ‘The Eraser’, in the run-up to their appearance at Coachella. The quintet made their live debut in LA in September.

Writing on Radiohead’s Deadairspace blog, Yorke said:
“hey everyone.
ok so in April the other band.. that i got together to do the eraser and other stuff u know .. Mauro, Flea, Me, Joey and Nigel is going back out to do some shows in the US.. ending with playing with Coachella. we had too much fun to just leave it there…
it has been decided that we call ourselves Atoms For Peace. hope you like the name.. it seemed bleedin’ obvious.”

Atoms For Peace play the following dates:
April
5 New York Roseland Ballroom
6 New York Roseland Ballroom
8 Boston Citi Wang Theatre
10 Chicago Aragon Ballroom
11 Chicago Aragon Ballroom
14 Oakland Fox Theatre
15 Oakland Fox Theatre
17 Santa Barbara Bowl

Support on the dates comes from Flying Lotus. Yorke is playing at Cambridge Corn Exchange tonight in support of Friends Of The Earth’s Tony Juniper.