The members of RADIOHEAD have announced they will focus on their solo projects right after their current tour that comes to an end next week in Tel Aviv, Israel.ย Thom Yorke will create the original score for new motion picture โSuspiriaโ, Jonny Greenwood has plans to dive deeper into his creative solo work, including a score for movies โPhantom Threadโ and โYou Were Never Really Hereโ, while Edย OโBrien will release a solo record.
The band commented on the upcoming ‘break’:
โWeโll hang up our Radioheads.ย Itโs time for everyone to go off and do their own thing for a bit.โ
The infamous Tel Aviv show was harshly criticized by Thurston Moore, Ken Loach, Roger Waters, Maxine Peak, and loads more that have signed the open letter in relation to the band’s show on July 19th. Thom Yorke answered the criticism and called it ‘upsetting’, ‘offensive’, and ‘and extraordinary waste of time’.
โThere are people I admire [who have been critical of the concert] like Ken Loach, who I would never dream of telling where to work or what to do or think,โ he continued. โThe kind of dialogue that they want to engage in is one thatโs black or white. I have a problem with that. Itโs deeply distressing that they choose to, rather than engage with us personally, throw shit at us in public. Itโs deeply disrespectful to assume that weโre either being misinformed or that weโre so retarded we canโt make these decisions ourselves. I thought it was patronising in the extreme. Itโs offensive and I just canโt understand why going to play a rock show or going to lecture at a university [is a problem to them].
โThe university thing is more of a head fuck for me,โ Yorke said. โItโs like, really? You canโt go talk to other people who want to learn stuff in another country? Really? The one place where you need to be free to express everything you possibly can. You want to tell these people you canโt do that? And you think thatโs gonna help?โ
RADIOHEAD continued to battle the boycott, last Friday at the TRNSMT Festival in Glasgow, Scotland where a group of activists raised Palestinian flags and actually caused Thom Yorke to respond and flipย the middle finger to the protesters.
Lastly, in other news, the band has announced 2 official guitar songbooks featuring tabulatures and notations for 40+ of their songs. See the covers of both acoustic and electric guitar versions below and go here to grab your copy.
