The Guardian

London’s O2 Arena announces funding for UK grassroots gig venues

The 20,000-capacity venue will feed revenue back into smaller venues to ‘nurture the next generation of breakthrough artists’ London’s O2 Arena, the UK’s second-largest indoor concert venue, has ...
Metro

O2 to donate to Music Venue Trust every time a new artist headlines the arena

Donations will be made each time a grassroots performer headlines the O2 for the first time (Picture: Getty) Grassroots music in London just got a major boost, as the O2 announced direct donations to ...
Ultimate Classic Rock

Radiohead Shatters Metallica’s Attendance Record at London’s O2 Arena at Charity Concerts

This month, Radiohead played four shows at the O2 Arena in London, each night hosting more people than the last. The shows took place on Nov. 21, 22, 24 and 25, with each of them drawing over 22,000 ...
Billboard

Radiohead Breaks Metallica’s Attendance Record at London’s O2 Arena

The iconic U.K. band played four sold-out shows at the venue in November. By Mitchell Peters Radiohead is making history at London’s O2 Arena. Following four sold-out shows earlier this month, the ...
Music Week

Radiohead break O2 Arena attendance record with in-the-round performances

Radiohead have made history with the highest ever attendance within the O2 Arena. The band have returned for their first live dates in seven years, including four sold-out shows at The O2. Metallica ...
Time Out

JLS at London’s O2 Arena: timings, set list, last-minute tickets and everything you need to know

JLS first reunited for a greatest hits tour back in 2021, eight years after they had last performed together. And since then, it seems as though they just can’t get enough. The X Factor band went on a ...
Rolling Stone

Radiohead Beat Metallica’s Attendance Record at London’s O2

Last week, Radiohead played four sold-out shows at London’s O2 Arena — and the gigs ended up beating an attendance record set by Metallica at the same venue in 2017. The band played the O2 on Nov. 21, ...
The Financial Times

Radiohead rework their songbook in inventive ways at London’s O2 Arena

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fomo is not among the old-school array of anxieties and neuroses in Radiohead’s songs. Thom Yorke specialises ...
Billboard

Radiohead Make Epic Return to the U.K. With Greatest Hits Set in London: Best Moments

The band played their first show in the U.K. since 2017 at The O2 Arena in London. By Thomas Smith British music has had such a banner year in 2025, that Radiohead’s return has flown a touch under the ...
London Evening Standard

Radiohead at the O2: 'Their most gleeful, hit-packed set in memory'

Where the long, long-awaited return of Oasis dominated the summer, filling the stadiums of the UK with sploshing pints, sneaky vapes and Adidas as far as the eye could see, it makes sense that ...
The Independent

Lorde review, O2 Arena London – Energy, cringe and restless teens pining for Melodrama tracks

Lorde has always zig-zagged between self-reflective, seen-it-all gloom and a primal, perma-adolescent urge to freak out and dance (Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock) Lorde’s Ultrasound tour, then, is not a ...
The Financial Times

Lorde strives for rawness and intimacy in London’s vast O2 Arena

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The all-caps announcement for Lorde’s fourth album Virgin promised “FULL TRANSPARENCY”. The cover is an X-ray, ...