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Rick has been a member of Yorkshire CND for a long time, and writes in to let us know that he has placed some No Star Wars t-shirts, exactly like the ones Thom is wearing in the below entry, on sale for charity. 100% of the proceeds will go straight to Yorkshire CND.
He’s got multiple sizes, each on a seperate eBay auction. You can see the listings here.
Thom Yorke is joining others on September 25 at the Crucial National Demo at Flyingdales to protest George Bush’s planned announcement of the Star Wars program this October. You can join CND at the national demonstration at the UK’s only official Star Wars base – Fylingdales – to say NO to Star Wars and NO to space weapons. This is a crucial demonstration at a crucial time. There will also be a march to the radar, a Star Wars exhibition, a drumming workshop, plus food and more… The Crucial National Demo will begin at 12 noon.
Thom spoke about the demonstration recently at the official Radiohead message board:
i hope you all are well. its saturday. i need to go to bed. im planning a trip to fylingdales anybody want to come? its a nice place. they have big domes and stuff. its up north. and im down south. bring a sandwich. i think they are planning world domination there or something.
errr
yep
its the 25th. thats also a saturday.what should i say. i dont want to be rude. but they are about to announce star wars..
www.cnduk.org
love peace and misfires
thm
For more information about the Crucial National Demo, go here.
(thanks to James)
On his often updated journal where he constantly expresses his frustration with right-wingers, Moby decided to make a poignant political comparison that includes pitting our lads vs. the latest pop princess.
“you know what politics is/are like in the united states?
it’s like pop-music
example a: pop-music.
republicans are like ashley simpson, and democrats are like radiohead. radiohead fans will forever be mystified as to why someone would buy an ashley simpson cd, but ashley simpson’s handlers/managers understand what the lowest common denominator are looking for and they give it to them. radiohead fans think ‘that disposable pop music is terrible, and someday people will see the error of their ways and buy radiohead cd’s instead of ashley simpson cd’s’, meanwhile ashley simpson and her managers are selling millions of records?
my point?
yes, radiohead are better than ashley simpson.
(thanks to Joel)
It looks as if you may be able to purchase Radiohead’s music online soon at the new MSN Music Store.
(thanks to Sam)
To date we have raised $1006 in our annual fundraiser. This is $194 short of our goal. We appreciate your donations to help fund Green Plastic’s server costs for the next year!
To donate, please go here. Thank you!!!
With the “soft-launch” of Warchildmusic.com earlier this month, a new track by Radiohead, available on September 9, is hoping to raise the awareness to this very worthy charitable project. War Child was founded in 1993 in reponse to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and it’s music releases include the UK’s fastest-ever number one hit, 1995’s grounbreaking charity album, Help. The projects’s MD, James Topham, said of the new site, “Every track ? and we?re after everything from covers to acoustic versions, live recordings, alternative mixes, remixes or simply unreleased tunes – will be exclusive to Warchildmusic.” The download sales will aid all of War Child’s charity global relief work.
The Radiohead contribution is a reworking of “Go To Sleep” recorded live in Osaka, Japan, and remixed by Jonny Greenwood. The profits for the song will go directly to helping children in the world’s most troubled regions.
In addition, songs from the aforementioned Help album will be making their online debut with exclusive tracks by Radiohead, Oasis, Manic Street Preachers, Blur, The Charlatans, Massive Attack and The Stone Roses.
(thanks to the Tripwire & cdm)