“Come on. You want to p*ss on everybody’s night? OK, you do, see you later then.”
Thom Yorke, the frontman of Radiohead, stormed offstage at his Melbourne concert on Wednesday after having a heated exchange with a pro-Palestinian heckler in the crowd.
The unidentified man began yelling at the rock star toward the end of his show about not condemning the “Israeli genocide of Gaza,” the New York Post reports. Video footage from concertgoers showed Yorke confronting the man through the microphone, saying “Come up here and say that right now. Come up on the f*cking stage and say what you want to say. Don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it.”
After an inaudible response, the 56-year-old British musician fired back, “Come on. You want to p*ss on everybody’s night? OK, you do, see you later then,” before walking off the stage with his guitar.
Fans in the crowd could also be heard in the video shouting “No, we love you Thom” and “Shut the f*ck up, man,” directed toward the heckler. One of the…
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