Radiohead and The Smile frontman Thom Yorke left the stage after an encounter with pro-Palestine protestor in the audience of his Melbourne, Australia at Sidney Meyer Music Bowl. Yorke later returned to finish the set with the Radiohead song “Karma Police.”
“Why are you silent?” was the sentiment that Yorke was approached with during the concert. Radiohead’s long history with Israel has been criticized by many fans of the group. Guitarist/keyboardist Jonny Greenwood was criticized for his stance earlier this year.
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SOURCES:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/31/thom-yorke-walks-off-stage-after-being-heckled-by-pro-palestine-heckler-at-melbourne-concert
https://bdsmovement.net/news/jonny-greenwood-stop-artwashing-genocide
https://x.com/JnnyG/status/1798028883553554677
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Calls him a coward and then has a hissy fit and walks off. Thom, you're the coward!
let people enjoy a concert, they paid to have a good time
Thom is a petter puffer .
2:32 That's great. Why don't you play in Russia?
Well the heckler is woefully uninformed!!!
Thanks Thom!!!!
When it's Iraq, Tibet, climate change, etc. Thom is all talk. But for Israel, nothing. When it's something he doesn't want to talk about, the person raising the issue is apparently a "coward", but if it's an issue he wants to talk about we all apparently have to listen. Honestly very disappointing.
When you attend a musical performance, it is implied that it is rhetorical. The crowd claps & woos, and maybe if the performers engage, perhaps there is audience participation. Going to a concert & screaming at the guy on stage with the guitar disrespects not only the performer, but everyone else around who paid good money to attend the show. Everyone has strong feelings about the injustices and atrocities happening on a daily basis, but man, read the room. Go make some posters and a sandwich-board sign to wear and walk around ringing a bell all day long, but if you're not on the stage at a concert, maybe keep your opinions to yourself?
He could have said something more mature about the subject really.
Was it always like this? Where we couldn't enjoy anything, everything was politics? I don't remember it that way.
The man shouting is so real for that. Takes courage to stand up against a booing crowd. People's silence is what allows this to continue… good people doing nothing. Kudos to this guy. If you can't handle it Thom, sure, walk off stage.
Maybe between 1939-1945 he and his band mates would have played in Berlin or just been silent about the Holocaust and simply say « I don’t support A.H. But music is here to open door bla-bla-bla BS »
Thom is so real for that
anti-jewish protestor*