Thom Yorke shares menacing live performance of ‘Back In The Game’ collab with Mark Pritchard

Thom Yorke has shared a live version of ‘Back In The Game’, his new collaboration with Mark Pritchard, recorded in Sydney – watch below.

The Radiohead frontman released the song last month on WARP Records, having debuted it during his solo tour of Asia, Australia and New Zealand in late 2024. It is the latest collaborative work from Yorke and electronic producer Pritchard, after ‘Beautiful People’ in 2016.

Now, Yorke has shared the live performance of the song from a show at the Sydney Opera House on November 2, where Pritchard joined him on stage on synths. Watch the performance, complete with an arresting light display, here:

The track sees Pritchard distorting Yorke’s vocals with a H910 Harmonizer, one of the world’s earliest devices for audio digital effects. It is thought to be part of a full-length collaborative record that the two artists have been working on, but at the time of writing, no details of the potential album have been shared.

If it were to come to fruition, it would be Yorke’s first major release since ‘Cutouts’, the latest album by The Smile, the band he formed with Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner. NME gave the LP a four-star review, and described it as the band “seem[ing] to be having more fun than ever”.

“The Smile’s M.O., then, seems to be experimentation without the baggage of Yorke and Greenwood’s bulging back catalogue – and ‘Cutouts’ certainly delivers here,” it read. “Featuring the London Contemporary Orchestra, the album was recorded in Oxford and Abbey Road Studios alongside ‘Wall of Eyes’, but this is a freer, more playful set than its predecessor.

Last year, Yorke made headlines by saying he “really doesn’t give a fuck” if fans want Radiohead to return. When asked by Australian outlet Double J about his thoughts on speculation over the band’s future, he replied: “I am not aware of it and don’t really give a flying fuck.”

“No offence to anyone and err, thanks for caring,” he continued. “But I think we’ve earned the right to do what makes sense to us without having to explain ourselves or be answerable to anyone else’s historical idea of what we should be doing.”

That came after bassist Colin Greenwood caught up with NME around the release of his new photo book How To Disappear, and opened up about the band’s reunion rehearsals over the summer.

Before then, his brother Jonny shared with NME that he found the rehearsals “fun and natural”, but went on to add that there are “no plans” for anything Radiohead-related in 2025, as the members are focused on “individual projects”.

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