Radiohead makes better music than most of its alt-rock peers, but the band’s politics are predictably progressive: for a while there in 2000, the English band’s website essentially did nothing but redirect visitors to Green Party candidate Ralph Nader’s campaign.
Radiohead recently put out a new record, “A Moon Shaped Pool,” and promoted the album’s release with a worldwide streaming event.
We have assembled pre-recorded music to be piped through the walls of participating locations this Friday for https://t.co/woHGEliF3O
— Radiohead (@radiohead) June 13, 2016
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld has a video recommendation for the young music lover in your life: make sure he or she checks out footage of the Radiohead listening party in Istanbul.
any young music lover adhering to moral relativism should watch the footagehttps://t.co/50DHfhHvOv
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) June 18, 2016
The footage he’s referring to is video shot in a tiny Turkish record shop that was participating in the worldwide listening party. Word got out that the store was serving alcohol and playing music during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and a mob quickly assembled to announce, violently, that the party was over.
https://twitter.com/dbs_78/status/744252786875863040
Fascist thugs have stormed a Radiohead listening party in İstanbul, vandalising the store and beating up the fans. @radiohead
— Ali Rıza Taşkale (@alirizataskale) June 17, 2016
Thugs attack @radiohead event at record store in Istanbul. Threaten to burn down the place for drinking in Ramadan https://t.co/UmsVXbQv0i
— Selin Girit (@selingirit) June 17, 2016
Radical islamists attacked a @radiohead event in İstanbul, Turkey because fans were drinking during ramadan! pic.twitter.com/mP0rEGouC9
— dilâra (@DilaraGurcu) June 17, 2016
A person posting on website Reddit claimed to be the one streaming the event live via the Periscope app, and wrote:
They were determined to kill us. We were beaten by more than 20 men with pipes in their hands, beer bottles were broken on our heads. I don’t even know how we made it out. I will share the details later guys, just hoping that no one will die.
A subtitled version of the video stream is now making its way around the Internet, and though we’re not able to confirm the translation, take our word for it — subtitles aren’t necessary to give a sense of just how frightening the incident was.
https://twitter.com/velvetart/status/744249228613017600
https://twitter.com/velvetart/status/744256001730187264
The band issued a brief statement Friday night sending “love and support” to its fans in Istanbul. Better keep some outrage in reserve for where it belongs.
meanwhile, expect a new entertainment industry attack North Carolina about toilets/locker rooms…
— PetsareNOTdisposable⭐⭐⭐ (@LrElias3) June 18, 2016
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