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Radiohead announce more 2017 festival dates
The Glastonbury headliners will also appear at Rock Werchter, Northside, Best Kept Secret, Open'er and Main Square next summer
By IQ on 28 Oct 2016
A man-bunned Thom Yorke at Lollapalooza Chicago 2016
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Radiohead’s 2017 is fast starting to take shape.
Following their confirmation last week for Glastonbury Festival, Belgium’s biggest rock festival, Rock Werchter, has announced the band – whose ninth studio album, A Moon Shaped Pool, was released in May – will perform on Friday 30 June, presumably as headliners.
Radiohead last played Rock Werchter, promoted by Live Nation Belgium’s Herman Schueremans, in 2008, and the festival says it’s “going to be going to be great to see this band again”.
Some 145,000 people attended Rock Werchter 2016 – down 4,500 on 2015, but still the festival’s third-best attendance since its founding in 1976.
In addition to Rock Werchter, Radiohead will also play FKP Scorpio’s Northside in Denmark; Best Kept Secret in the Netherlands, Open’er in Poland and Live Nation France’s Main Square.
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