Radiohead are gearing up to play 20 shows per year on different continents in the coming years, guitarist Ed O’Brien told Rolling Stone in an interview published late Monday, with the group’s 20 European shows last year apparently being the first in the plan. “It’s definitely happening,” O’Brien said, at the end of an interview about his new solo album, “Blue Morpho.” “What we’re going to do is, every year we’re going to do a different continent, and we’re going to do 20 shows each year. No more, no less.” Popular on Variety While no dates or routing have been announced yet, the plan is to start in 2027 and eventually cover North and South America continents as well as Asia and Australia and New Zealand. Reps for the band did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for further details. According to O’Brien (pictured above left, with singer Thom Yorke), the 20-show plan worked well on the European dates, which wrapped last December. “That tour was very, very emotional, very profound. We all felt that,” he said of the tour. “We’d look at one another on that stage, like, ‘This is amazing.’ I feel like I’m the luckiest person on the planet, and I’m not just saying that. “We want to give absolutely everything each night,” he continued. “We do not ever want it to be like we’re going through the motions or we’re having to run on empty. We’ve got to be able to do it. And you know what? We’re not spring chickens anymore.” Radiohead are all in their late or mid-50s, and like nearly all musicians of that age and older, feel the strain of nonstop touring. Artists in their 70s and 80s, from Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones to Bruce Springsteen, are generally taking shorter tours with more days in between dates — a more-expensive proposition, considering the cost of keeping a touring band and entourage on the road, but a necessary one in terms of performance. Radiohead toured relentlessly in their early years — evidence of their exhaustion can be seen in the 1998 documentary “Meeting People Is Easy” — and while the tours have been fewer and more far between, the band’s touring in support of its “Moon Shaped Pool” album sprawled across two years and included a four-month jaunt across North America in 2018. “It was pretty much nonstop. It’s all-encompassing and it demands your full attention, and it’s addictive in that way. But it’s not necessarily healthy, because you just keep going, keep going, keep going. And then when you stop, suddenly the ghosts catch up.” Recording “A Moon Shaped Pool” nearly burned him out, he said. “I was done with Radiohead,” he recalled. “It had got to a place where I just wasn’t enjoying it. I just didn’t resonate with it anymore, and I wanted to do my own thing. We’d run out of inspiration.” He was even reluctant to tour behind it. “I didn’t really want to tour, and they knew that. But I did it and I’m glad I did. I saw it through to the end,” he said. The band’s five members took several years off — O’Brien said they hadn’t performed together in six years when they reunited for rehearsals in 2024 — and worked on solo projects, including frontman Thom Yorke and guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s band the Smile and solo albums from the others. Yet they returned refreshed. “We’re like, ‘How do we know if we’re going to be any good?’ And the chemistry was there from the very beginning,” he said. “I think we always knew that if we got the love between us right, then it all flows from there.”