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Thom Yorke Leaves Stage in Response to Pro-Palestine Protestor

todayOctober 31, 2024

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Radiohead and the Smile singer Thom Yorke paused a recent solo concert in Melbourne, Australia, after being heckled by a pro-Palestine member of the audience. Footage from the concert shows a man shouting about the death tolls in Israel’s war in Gaza and asking Yorke, “How could you be silent?” (The Israeli offensive, in Gaza, has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.)

Yorke, further footage shows, addressed the man in the audience: “Come up on the fucking stage and say what you want to say. Don’t stand there like a coward. Come here and say it.” He continued, “You want to piss on everybody’s night? Come on. OK, you do, see you later.” Yorke then left the stage, but he returned to play Radiohead’s “Karma Police.”


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Author: Matthew Strauss

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