You get Netanyahu, you get fucking Trump. Now if you’re talking about trying to make things progress in any society, if you create division, what do you get? You get fucking Theresa May. You’re not encouraging dialogue or a sense of understanding. “All of this creates divisive energy,” Yorke added. I mean, we’re best mates for life, but it’s like, fuck me, really?” “Imagine how this has affected me and Nigel’s relationship,” Yorke said. Yorke went on to criticise ex-Pink Floyd man Waters, who recently worked with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich on his new solo album. They talk down to us and I just find it mind-boggling that they think they have the right to do that. But at the same time, if you want me to be honest, yeah, it’s really upsetting that artists I respect think we are not capable of making a moral decision ourselves after all these years. “Part of me wants to say nothing because anything I say cooks up a fire from embers. “This is the first time I’ve said anything about it,” Yorke said. Energy that could be used in a more positive way.” It’s such an extraordinary waste of energy. Roger Waters has won a legal battle to play a forthcoming concert in Frankfurt after it was initially cancelled over claims of antisemitism. Just to throw the word ‘apartheid’ around and think that’s enough. Just to assume that we know nothing about this. And imagine how upsetting that it’s been to have this out there. All these people to stand there at a distance throwing stuff at us, waving flags, saying, ‘You don’t know anything about it!’ Imagine how offensive that is for Jonny. Roger Waters, one of the founders of the band Pink Floyd, issued an apology Friday for his use of an anti-Semitic trope during a recent diatribe against Jewish American philanthropist and. He has both Palestinian and Israeli fans and a wife who’s an Arab-Israeli. The singer went on to chastise his critics for assuming that the band’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood is uninformed on the matter, saying: “The person who knows most about these things is Jonny. It’s offensive and I just can’t understand why going to play a rock show or going to lecture at a university. I thought it was patronizing in the extreme. It’s deeply disrespectful to assume that we’re either being misinformed or that we’re so retarded we can’t make these decisions ourselves. It’s deeply distressing that they choose to, rather than engage with us personally, throw shit at us in public. Yorke continued: “The kind of dialogue that they want to engage in is one that’s black or white.
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