Thom Yorke briefly walked offstage as the crowd booed the heckler.
Thom Yorke was performing a solo show in Melbourne on Oct 30 when a concertgoer began chiding him about the mounting death toll in Gaza.
SYDNEY – Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke briefly walked offstage during an Australian concert after a verbal stoush with a pro-Palestinian heckler. He was performing a solo show in Melbourne on Oct 30 when a concertgoer began chiding him about the mounting death toll in Gaza.In a frosty reply, Yorke accused the man of ruining the gig for other fans and invited him to “hop up” on the stage.
“Don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it. You want to pi** on everybody’s night,” Yorke said. Yorke briefly walked offstage as the crowd booed the heckler, although he returned minutes later to play his final song – Radiohead’s 1997 hit Karma Police.“Playing in a country isn’t the same as endorsing its government,” Yorke wrote on Twitter at the time. “We’ve played in Israel for over 20 years through a succession of governments, some more liberal than others. As we have in America.
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