Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Says Would Not Now Play In Israel

WorldMusic
29 Oct 2025 • 8:00 AM MYT
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Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has said in a British newspaper interview he would not now perform in Israel, eight years after the band defied pro-Palestinian activists to play a Tel Aviv gig. “Absolutely not. I wouldn’t want to be 5,000 miles anywhere near the Netanyahu regime,” he told The Sunday Times Magazine, referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. The interview with members of the British band — whose UK number one albums include “OK Computer” and “Kid A” — took place before this month’s ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

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