Radiohead have announced that their new installation ‘Motion Picture House: KID A MNESIA’ will debut at Coachella 2026.
The 75-minute large-format audiovisual experience has been assembled from artwork created by frontman Thom Yorke and designer Stanley Donwood during the making of the band’s celebrated albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001).
Derived from sketches, paintings, collages, audio recordings, and handwritten notes, the installation will debut underground at Coachella in a 17,000 square foot bunker with 38-foot-high ceilings, specifically created beneath the Empire Polo Fields. It will feature a custom-built 6-point surround system for which the music was specifically remixed. According to Yorke, the experience will be based around a narrative in which “a monster is trapped in a derelict museum of the lost and forgotten.”
After Coachella, Motion Picture House: KID A MNESIA will tour several North American cities:
- May 6 – 31: Brooklyn, Agger Fish Building
- July 30 – August 23: Chicago, Cinespace Studio
- October 27 – November 15: Mexico City, La Maravilla Studios
- January 14 – February 7: San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts
Tickets for the shows will be available in two-hour slots, with 75 minutes for the show and extra time to explore the gallery.
Radiohead released KID A MNESIA, a reissue of Kid A and Amnesiac along with an album of unearthed material from the sessions, in 2021. The album, dubbed Kid Amnesiae, received a four-star review from NME for offering a “companion and secret history behind the making of two essential, landmark records – and the rebirth of a great band.”
Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien is releasing his second solo album Blue Morpho on May 22 and will tour the UK and Europe in October. Thom Yorke will also be releasing a solo album this year.
The band has plans to tour in 2027 and beyond, focusing on different continents each year with 20 shows annually. All five members formed a new private limited company in February, suggesting future projects. Their latest full-length album, A Moon Shaped Pool, was released in 2016.
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