Radiohead, one just assumed, was never coming back to Toronto.Radiohead has unfinished business in this town. Ugly business. The sort of ugly, unfinished business that, any reasonable human being should agree, would justify never setting foot within the city limits again. The last time the esteemed English art-rock quartet was scheduled to play here, at Downsview Park on June 16, 2012, the outdoor stage upon it was to play that evening crumpled in on itself a mere hour before the gates were set to open, killing the band’s 33-year-old drum technician, Scott Johnson, and injuring three other members of its crew. Six years later, no one has accepted responsibility for nor apologized for the accident, nor been forced by the Ontario legal system to do so. Two separate criminal trials stemming from the incident have petered out into an inconclusive void that, as even the last judge to preside over the case put it as she effectively laid it to rest last September, remain “incomprehensible to Mr. Johnson’s family, who can justifiably complain that justice has not been done.”Late last year, the office of the Ontario chief coroner announced an inquest into the matter but, a representative told the Star this week, no date has been set. It’s “still in the planning stages so we’re not in a position yet to announce a date and location.”Read more: New trial ordered in deadly stage collapse at Downsview Radiohead concertToronto judge stays charges in fatal Radiohead stage collapse due to trial delaysDistraught father wants answers a year after son’s death in Radiohead stage collapseIf the announcement in February that Radiohead would return to our city for a pair of dates at the Scotiabank Arena this Thursday and Friday — both of which sold out instantly — was cause for celebration amongst local fans who haven’t had an up-close-and-personal look at the band since a gig at the Molson Amphitheatre in 2008, th ...
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