Radiohead + The Smile + Thom Yorke

[madsun]

io nel 1997 li schifavo proprio, e quando partiva il video di Karma Police cambiavo canale

[Snowfield]

Rick comprendo la tua presa di posizione. Lo so che per una chicca della propria band preferita, uno sarebbe disposto anche a vendere il proprio fratello ad un commando di terroristi. Ma per quanto mi riguarda sono entrato in modalità "casalinga al mercato il martedì mattina"... con 130 euro chiudo intere discografie. Non avrò la chicca da fan sfegatato, ma il nocciolo/il cuore di tutto si: il disco

[Pilgrim]

e insomma, questa è una delle 3 unreleased tracks B side da Ok Computer.

[AFX]

i Radiohead suoneranno a Tel Aviv, Israele.
Nei giorni scorsi un video di un fanatico dei Radiohead palestinese, a cui si sono aggiunti "Roger Waters, Thurston Moore, TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, and 50 others" chiedeva loro di boicottare Israele e di non suonare lì.

Yorke risponde:
“I don’t agree with the cultural ban at all.”

Yorke was especially bothered by Waters and co.’s decision to publicly rebuke Radiohead. “It’s deeply distressing that they chose to, rather than engage with us personally, throw shit at us in public.” He continued, “It’s deeply disrespectful to assume that we’re either being misinformed or that we’re so retarded we can’t make these decisions ourselves. I thought it was patronizing in the extreme. It’s offensive and I just can’t understand why going to play a rock show or going to lecture at a university [is a problem to them].”

Yorke also noted “how offensive” the boycott is to Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, who is married to an Arab-Israeli. “And imagine how upsetting that it’s been to have this out there. Just to assume that we know nothing about this. Just to throw the word ‘apartheid’ around and think that’s enough. It’s fucking weird. It’s such an extraordinary waste of energy. Energy that could be used in a more positive way.”

“This is the first time I’ve said anything about it,” Yorke added. “Part of me wants to say nothing because anything I say cooks up a fire from embers. But at the same time, if you want me to be honest, yeah, it’s really upsetting that artists I respect think we are not capable of making a moral decision ourselves after all these years. They talk down to us and I just find it mind-boggling that they think they have the right to do that. It’s extraordinary.”

Somewhat awkwardly, Radiohead’s longtime producer, Nigel Godrich, produced Waters’ new solo album. “Imagine how this has affected me and Nigel’s relationship,” Yorke commented. “Thanks, Roger. I mean, we’re best mates for life, but it’s like, fuck me, really?”

For his part, Godrich told Rolling Stone that he too is against cultural boycotts: “I don’t think they’re positive, ever. And actually, I think that it’s true to say that the people you’d be denying [the music] are the people who would agree with you and don’t necessarily agree with their government. So it’s not a good idea.”

“Thom and Roger are two peas in a pod, really, in certain respects,” Godrich added. “They just have a disagreement about this, but they’ve never even met. I think Thom feels very protective of Jonny, which I completely get. But I’m not in the middle of Thom and Roger. Fucking hell, I wouldn’t like to be in the middle of those two. No.”

Despite the hoopla, Radiohead show no signs of scrapping the Tel Aviv concert, scheduled to take place at Park Hayarkon on July 19th. The band will be joined by the Jewish-Arabic band Dudu Tassa & The Kuwaitis.

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Waters insiste:

Now, Waters himself has responded in a statement issued to Rolling Stone, because “It needs a reply as it doesn’t tell the whole story.” Waters says he did in fact reach out to the band via email on two separate occasions, but Yorke “misinterpreted my attempt to start a conversation as a threat.”

“I have made every effort to engage with you personally, and would still like to have the conversation,” Waters says to Yorke. “Not to talk is not an option.”

Read Waters’ full statement below.

I read Thom Yorke’s interview in Rolling Stone. It needs a reply as it doesn’t tell the whole story.

On February 12th, hoping to start a dialogue, I sent an email expressing my concern about Radiohead crossing the BDS picket line to perform in Israel. A few hours later, Thom replied. He was angry. He had misinterpreted my attempt to start a conversation as a threat. So I tried again.

“Hey Thom,

I’m sorry. My letter wasn’t meant to be confrontational. I was reaching out to see if we could have the conversation that you talk about in your reply. Can we?
Love, R.”

I didn’t hear back. So silence prevailed for three weeks until March 4th when I sent a long heartfelt entreaty to Thom asking him again to talk.

In Thom’s interview with Andy Greene of Rolling Stone, in referring to Ken Loach and me, he says, “It’s deeply distressing that they choose to, rather than engage with us personally, throw shit at us in public.”

That is not true, Thom. I have made every effort to engage with you personally, and would still like to have the conversation.

“Not to talk is not an option.”

Today is the 50th anniversary of the occupation of Palestine by Israel. Fifty years living under military occupation. Fifty years for a people with no civil rights. Fifty years of no recourse to the law. Fifty years of apartheid.

The BDS picket line exists to shine a light on the predicament of the occupied people of Palestine, both in Palestine and those displaced abroad, and to promote equal civil rights for all the people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea no matter what their nationality, race or religion. All human life is sacred, every child is our child, exceptionalism is always our enemy. There is no Us or Them, only Us.

Restiamo umani.

Love,

Roger Waters

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sono molti anni che non vado a un concerto (2 almeno, ma in generale dal 2008-2009 non mi sono più mosso di fatto). Sono quasi impaurito dall'andare a vedere i Radiohead in mezzo a tutta quella gente, dopo 14 anni dalla volta precedente.

[Tyler Durden]

Io dico solo che a sto giro devo puntare tutto sulla botta di culo di guadagnarmi una buona posizione e vedermi il concerto circondato da persone un minimo serie. La scorsa volta a Firenze era pieno di coglioni, e infatti ho un ricordo bello a metà di quel concerto. I Radiohead fighissimi, ma il pubblico... insomma.

Sul concerto in sé ho aspettative altissime. A moon shaped pool l'ho ascoltato un sacco e mi piace parecchio: ne vorrei sentire tante dal vivo. Non era lo stesso per The King of Limbs che mi era rimasto meno.

[LaJoneserìa]

Più che altro visto l'andazzo generale la posizione ideale sarebbe quella più vicina a un'uscita o comunque più esterna possibile .

[Odradek]

sono molti anni che non vado a un concerto (2 almeno, ma in generale dal 2008-2009 non mi sono più mosso di fatto). Sono quasi impaurito dall'andare a vedere i Radiohead in mezzo a tutta quella gente, dopo 14 anni dalla volta precedente.

A me non sono tutti questi anni però ho paura lo stesso e mi prende sempre più male andare in queste situazioni grandi, tendo sempre più a preferire cose piccole e intime. Detto questo sarò a Milano con LaJoneserìa e niente, per chi c'è ci si vede lì, forse

[Homunculus1510]

forse

Come "forse"?
Io tra l'altro penso di andare lì prestissimo, tipo che alle 3 esco di casa. Tra l'altro devo studiarmi bene i mezzi e le eventuali navette.