Radiohead singer Thom Yorke set for 'Tomorrow's Modern Boxes Tour' with Nigel Godrich, Tarik Barri

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke set for ‘Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Tour’ with Nigel Godrich, Tarik Barri

San Diego Union-Tribune

Aug. 13, 2018 8:30 AM PT

Radiohead singer and periodic DJ Thom Yorke is mounting a monthlong U.S. tour that will focus on music from his solo albums and from his album with the band Atoms for Peace. The upcoming tour will team him with longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, who is also a member of Atoms for Peace, and visual artist Tarik Barri. Oliver Coates will open all the shows.

Billed as the “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Tour,” the concert trek is named after Yorke’s most recent solo album, which was released in 2014. The tour will open Nov. 23 at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia and conclude Dec. 22 at the Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan.

It includes four California dates, including an all-ages Dec. 17 show at Observatory North Park in San Diego and two Los Angeles performances at the Orpheum Theatre on Dec. 19 and 20.

All of the tour dates and ticket information appear below.

Tickets are scheduled to go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time in all cities, some of which will have online presales. Tickets are priced at $60 each, plus service charges, for Yorke’s Observatory North Park show and will be available through TicketWeb.com.

The tour may also feature a preview of music from Yorke’s score for the upcoming horror film remake of “Suspiria,” his first major feature soundtrack.

“Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Tour” itinerary

11/23 - Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA*

11/24 - Wang Theatre-Boch Center - Boston MA*

11/26 - Kings Theatre - Brooklyn, NY*

11/27 - Kings Theatre - Brooklyn, NY*

11/30 - John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Washington, DC*

12/1 - Keybank State Theatre – Cleveland, OH*

12/2 - Masonic Temple Cathedral Theatre – Detroit, MI*

12/4 - Chicago Theatre - Chicago, IL*

12/5 - Riverside Theater - Milwaukee, WI*

12/6 - Northrop at the University of Minnesota - Minneapolis MN*

12/8 - Stifel Theatre - Saint Louis, MO*

12/9 - Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland - Kansas City, MO*

12/11 - Paramount Theatre - Denver, CO*

12/13 - The Union - Salt Lake City, UT*

12/15 - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium - San Francisco, CA*

12/17 - The Observatory, North Park - San Diego, CA*

12/19 - Orpheum Theatre - Los Angeles, CA*

12/20 - Orpheum Theatre - Los Angeles, CA*

12/22 - The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan - Las Vegas, NV

* - with Special guest Oliver Coates

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San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 San Diego Press Club awards and a double first prize-winner at the 2022 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”