Ed O'Brien - An Evening With… Blue Morpho Tour

The band’s career has long been crowned with six Grammy Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, various other nominations, and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, making their musical legacy almost impossible to put into words. Since 2019, Ed O’Brien has also been focusing on his own music, initially releasing his first singles and a solo album under his pseudonym EOB.

On May 22, 2026, Ed O’Brien’s long-awaited second solo album, “Blue Morpho,” will be released via Transgressive Records, continuing the guitarist’s solo career. In October, he will then present the album live on tour.

The “An Evening With… Blue Morpho” tour will bring him to Berlin’s Admiralspalast.

Ed O’Brien grew up in Oxford, England, as the child of an Irish family and found refuge in music at the age of ten when his parents separated.

Influenced by the post-punk of the ’70s and ’80s, he learned to play guitar as a teenager and jammed with his then-classmate Thom Yorke, which marked a turning point for him.

Together with Yorke, Philip Selway, and brothers Colin and Jonny Greenwood, he founded the band On A Friday in 1985, which released its debut single “Creep” in 1991 under the name Radiohead after signing with EMI and has since become one of the most successful alternative rock bands in the world. Albums such as “Pablo Honey” (1993), “The Bends” (1995), the legendary breakthrough album “OK Computer” (1997), “Kid A” (2000), “Amnesiac” (2001), “Hail to the Thief” (2003), “In Rainbows” (2007), “The King of Limbs” (2011), and “A Moon Shaped Pool” (2016) made Radiohead world-famous and saw them top the UK charts six times and the Billboard 200 twice.

The rest is history, and it paved the way for Ed O’Brien to launch an equally successful solo career, which he began pursuing more intensively in 2017 after releasing his first demos in 2014, starting to write songs for his solo debut.

Following his debut single “Santa Teresa” in 2019, Ed O’Brien released the song “Brasil” as the lead single from his debut album “Earth.” “Earth” was released in 2020 via Capitol Records following additional singles such as “Sangri La,” “Olympik,” and “Cloak of the Night,” and entered the charts internationally.

The debut enjoyed its greatest success in Scotland, where it entered the charts at number 3.

Featuring musicians such as Colin Greenwood, Omar Hakim, Laura Marling, and Adrian Utley (Portishead), the album delivered a sound blending alternative rock, Britpop, and dance rock, and received overwhelmingly positive reviews from the press. “Blue Morpho” continues Ed O’Brien’s story with seven new songs written between 2020 and 2025.