Abingdon · Oxford · Bath · Wiltshire · Dartmoor · Greenwich
A band named after the one day they could rehearse, an album made in a house with ghosts, another named after a tree, and one you could buy for whatever you liked. Most of their places cost nothing to stand in.
Park Road, Abingdon · Mid-1980s
The Library of Congress essay on OK Computer says the members met at Abingdon School, then a boys’ school.
Seven days. Pick one.
The Ashmolean puts the band’s beginning in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in the mid-1980s.
A working independent school: see it from Park Road. The grounds and the music school are for pupils.
November 1991 · 56 Walton Street, Jericho, Oxford
In November 1991 they played there again. It was only their eighth gig, and 25 A&R people came to watch.
Nobody agrees when On a Friday first played the Jericho Tavern: some sources say 1986, others 1987. They signed to Parlophone, then part of EMI, soon after.
Supergrass played their first gig there in 1993, billed as Theodore Supergrass.
Still a music pub, busiest at weekends: go in for a drink, or for a gig upstairs.
Oxford · $17.49 on VoiceMap
A self-guided 5 km walk with your phone, about an hour, by the Oxford music writer Albert Genower. It starts outside the O2 Academy on Cowley Road and ends at the Jericho Tavern.
Get the walkSt Catherine, near Bath · Before May 1997
St Catherine’s Court. OK Computer was recorded in a 15th-century mansion near Bath called St Catherine’s Court, then owned by the actor Jane Seymour. He said ghosts talked to him in his sleep. The band recorded Paranoid Android in the house’s wooden ballroom, after lighting candles.
Press Speak and the computer reads the house.
Thom Yorke said he spent the whole time there frightened, because everything reminded him of his own mortality.
The Cure made Wild Mood Swings there, and New Order worked on part of Waiting for the Sirens’ Call. The house was built as a priory grange for the monks of Bath Abbey, and is named after the 12th-century Church of St Catherine nearby.
In 2024 the 14-acre estate went up for sale at £12.5 million.
A private house. The lanes of the St Catherine valley pass close by; keep to them, and do not go up the drive.
The 1980s · Streatham Campus, Exeter
Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, both born in 1968, became friends at Exeter University, where both studied English literature and fine art.
Their partnership began in earnest when Donwood designed the cover of the single My Iron Lung in 1994. Donwood reckons they have been working together for about 30 years.
The Ashmolean says the OK Computer artwork was made on a computer, under a challenge they set themselves.
The campus grounds and gardens are open every day of the year. The roads are private, so you walk at your own risk; visitor parking is free outside 8am–6pm on weekdays.
Kid A · 1999
A bear we drew for this page. Press it: each blink moves it to the next room Kid A was made in.
Eyes open. Press the bear.
Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway remembered starting the new album in Paris in early 1999, while questioning the way the band had always worked.
2000 · August 2025 – January 2026
Donwood’s bear first turned up in 2000, in a crudely drawn comic strip called Test Specimens on the band’s website.
Fans call it the Modified Bear; it has also gone by Blinky and Despot Bear. Yorke told Blender in 2001 that it grew out of a deep worry about genetic engineering. The bear never made it on to an album cover.
From 6 August 2025 to 11 January 2026 the Ashmolean showed more than 180 works by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, from original album-cover paintings to digital pieces and etchings. The museum says the two once sneaked into the basement of Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital to film a resuscitation dummy for an early Radiohead cover.
Open daily, 10am to 5pm, last entry 4.45pm. General admission is free; special exhibitions are charged.
Near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire · Adult £12 with Gift Aid · £10.90 without · child £3.50
Sixty acres of trees and plants above the house where Kid A was worked on in 1999. Open Monday to Saturday 9.30am–5pm, Sunday 10am–5pm; last entry 4pm.
Buy a day ticketBeaumont Street, Oxford · General admission free
Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology, which showed more than 180 works by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke in 2025–26. Open daily 10am–5pm.
Plan a visitSavernake Forest, Wiltshire · 2011
A bare trunk. Grow a limb.
The King of Limbs is named after an oak in Savernake Forest, thought to be around 1,000 years old.
Forestry England says it is free to explore every day of the year, with an outstanding legacy of old trees.
Free to explore 365 days a year. Postern Hill car park is free, open 8am to 7pm, with toilets from Easter to October half term.
Two Bridges, Dartmoor
A country hotel on the banks of the West Dart in the middle of Dartmoor, with a two-AA-rosette restaurant and cream teas all day. Wistman’s Wood, the moss wood behind The King of Limbs, is about a mile’s walk north.
See rooms10 October 2007 · from the band’s own site
In Rainbows went on sale from the band’s own site, due on 10 October; next to the price was a question mark, and clicking it said: It’s up to you. So here is the same box. Type what you would pay to stand at Radiohead’s places today, even nothing, and press download.
£0.00 in the box. Press download.
On 30 September 2007 Jonny Greenwood posted that the new album was finished and coming out in ten days. From October to December 2006 the band and their producer took up residence at Tottenham House in Wiltshire.
Oxford
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Compare toursThe O2, Greenwich · November 2025
Thom Yorke faces you.
All five as they looked on tour in 2006, the year before the pay-what-you-like album.
November 2025 · Greenwich Peninsula, London
The stage was in the round, which let more people in: every night drew over 22,200, with a high of 22,355, beating the venue record Metallica set in 2017.
Radiohead played the O2 on 21, 22, 24 and 25 November 2025, on their first tour in seven years. They had last played London in 2016, at the Roundhouse, and the UK in 2017.
An arena on the Greenwich Peninsula: go in with a ticket for a show.
7 July 2001 · Headington Road, Oxford
On 7 July 2001 Radiohead came home to South Park: their first show in Oxford for five years.
NME counted 35,000 fans, soaked by the rain. Supergrass and an acoustic Beck played before them; Sigur Rós and Humphrey Lyttelton earlier in the day. Hot Press heard a shaky start, then a band that did not put a foot wrong once the nerves settled.
A city park, open to everyone. Walk up the slope for the view back over the spires.
In September 2026 the band announced 16 Australian shows for May and June 2027, their first there in 15 years.
11 places you can visit, most of them free. The band’s Oxfordshire studio, Tottenham House, the Paris and Copenhagen rooms and La Fabrique in Provence are private, so none of them is on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working independent school: see it from Park Road. The grounds and the music school are for pupils.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Still a music pub, busiest at weekends: go in for a drink, or for a gig upstairs.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A city park, open to everyone. Walk up the slope for the view back over the spires.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open daily, 10am to 5pm, last entry 4.45pm. General admission is free; special exhibitions are charged.
Park Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
The Library of Congress essay on OK Computer says the members met at Abingdon School, then a boys’ school.
A working independent school: see it from Park Road. The grounds and the music school are for pupils.
56 Walton Street, Jericho, Oxford
Nobody agrees when On a Friday first played the Jericho Tavern: some sources say 1986, others 1987.
Still a music pub, busiest at weekends: go in for a drink, or for a gig upstairs.
Headington Road, Oxford
On 7 July 2001 Radiohead came home to South Park: their first show in Oxford for five years.
A city park, open to everyone. Walk up the slope for the view back over the spires.
Beaumont Street, Oxford
From 6 August 2025 to 11 January 2026 the Ashmolean showed more than 180 works by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, from original album-cover paintings to digital pieces and etchings.
Open daily, 10am to 5pm, last entry 4.45pm. General admission is free; special exhibitions are charged.
Stay
A Dartmoor hotel a mile from Wistman’s Wood, the trees behind The King of Limbs.
Two Bridges, Dartmoor
A country hotel on the banks of the West Dart in the middle of Dartmoor, with a two-AA-rosette restaurant and cream teas all day. Wistman’s Wood, the moss wood behind The King of Limbs, is about a mile’s walk north.
See roomsGo there
An audio walk round Radiohead’s Oxford, the arboretum at Batsford, the Ashmolean, and Oxford walks on the marketplace.
Oxford · $17.49 on VoiceMap
A self-guided 5 km walk with your phone, about an hour, by the Oxford music writer Albert Genower. It starts outside the O2 Academy on Cowley Road and ends at the Jericho Tavern.
Get the walkNear Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire · Adult £12 with Gift Aid · £10.90 without · child £3.50
Sixty acres of trees and plants above the house where Kid A was worked on in 1999. Open Monday to Saturday 9.30am–5pm, Sunday 10am–5pm; last entry 4pm.
Buy a day ticketBeaumont Street, Oxford · General admission free
Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology, which showed more than 180 works by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke in 2025–26. Open daily 10am–5pm.
Plan a visitOxford
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Compare toursWhat’s on
Sixteen arena shows in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney from May 2027.
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Take it home
Original posters from our store, the Kid A artwork book, a short book on OK Computer and three LPs tied to these places.
An original 1997 poster for the album recorded at St Catherine’s Court, art by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke. 40.2 × 59.8 in, rolled, very good.
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View posterAn original 2003 poster for the single, art by Stanley Donwood. 20 × 30 in, rolled, mint.
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View posterAn original 2000 poster for the album begun in Paris and worked on at Batsford, art by Stanley Donwood. 18 × 24 in.
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View posterThom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
The pictures and notebooks from the Kid A and Amnesiac years, by the two who made them.
Find the bookDai Griffiths
A short book on the album recorded at St Catherine’s Court.
Find the bookRadiohead · 2 × LP, Parlophone NODATA 02, 1997
The St Catherine’s Court album, first UK vinyl.
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Find a copyRadiohead · 2 × 10-inch, Parlophone LPKIDA 1, 2000
Paris, Copenhagen, Batsford and Oxfordshire, on two ten-inch records.
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Find a copyRadiohead · LP, XL Recordings XLLP324, 2007
The pay-what-you-want album, as a record you pay a fixed price for.
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Find a copyDates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
15 of 15 places · 17 of 17 Moments
Park Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Five schoolboys rehearse on the one day they are all free, and name the band after it.
56 Walton Street, Jericho, Oxford
An eighth gig watched by 25 A&R people; a Parlophone deal follows.
Headington Road, Oxford
35,000 people in a wet Oxford park for the homecoming.
Beaumont Street, Oxford
Donwood’s bear appears in a comic strip on the band’s website.
More than 180 works by Donwood and Yorke go on show in Oxford.
Streatham Campus, Exeter
Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood become friends at Exeter University.
St Catherine, near Bath
OK Computer is recorded in a Tudor mansion near Bath; Paranoid Android in its ballroom by candlelight.
Paris and Copenhagen
Kid A begins in Paris and moves to Copenhagen; neither city gives them an album.
Batsford, near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
The sessions move to a Gloucestershire mansion; a Batsford Morning Bell takes shape.
Oxfordshire
The band’s Oxfordshire studio is ready.
Wiltshire
The band and their producer move into Tottenham House for the In Rainbows sessions.
In Rainbows goes on sale from the band’s own site, at whatever price the buyer types.
Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
The new album takes its name from a thousand-year-old Savernake oak.
Goathurst, near Bridgwater, Somerset
The sessions move on to Halswell House outside Taunton.
Dartmoor, a mile north of Two Bridges
Wistman’s Wood feeds the art for The King of Limbs.
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
A Moon Shaped Pool takes shape in a disused mill in Provence.
Greenwich Peninsula, London
Four London nights on a round stage, and a new venue record.
