Radiohead Is Playing Occupy Wall Street Today(?)

The rumors are true, Radiohead will be playing Liberty Park today at 4pm. This will be a shit show to end all shit shows. In fact, I kinda think it's irresponsible of the band. The cops are already heated and flooding downtown with Radiohead fans might be exactly what's needed for a full on riot to erupt. This is gonna get ugly, proceed with caution.

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Radiohead Occupy Wall Street

***NEVERMIND. They just cancelled. Probably a good thing.
******Okay, maybe it is happening. The band says no, occupy Wall St. says yes. But the band saying no could simply be a crowd control measure.
*********Looks like my hunch might be right. Now Gothamist is reporting that the bands denial was a fake out to keep 1,000,000 people from showing up. We'll see what happens.

Radiohead Release Tribute To Harry Patch, Recently Deceased WWI Survivor

I'm not a big Radiohead fan and under normal circumstances you wouldn't see a post about them. However they did something I respect very much. Radiohead wrote a tribute song to Mr. Harry Patch, one of the last survivors of bloodiest war in human history - WWI. Harry fought in battles where 3,000 British troops fell next to him EVERY DAY. That means in one and a half days more of his colleagues died then have in total thus far into the Iraq War.

Harry died a few weeks ago, the last of the Tommys. Radiohead was already writing a song about him when his death was announced. Yesterday they released the track and are donating the proceeds to the British Legion.

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Harry Patch (In Memory Of)

via Boing Boing