Radiohead, Massive Attack DJ Occupy London Event (VIDEO)

Radiohead may have disappointed fans stateside in Occupy Wall Street's early days, but now we know this was no indicator of the band's stance toward the movement. The Radiohead frontman and Massive Attack's Robert "3D" Del Naja DJed for a group of 200-some Occupy London campaigners earlier this week at the "Bank of Ideas," a warehouse formerly owned by UBS bank, Reuters reported.

According to the report, the musicians reached out to the activists, not the other way around, and held the event as a way of thanking them for their efforts.

"Unfortunately a lot of people, they don't pay attention to politics, but they pay attention to Radiohead, they pay attention to Massive Attack," one activist told Reuters. "I think that will help us get out to a different audience."

Check out Reuters' report, and see the video below for a more raucous view of the night:

 

Comments

[PaulD08]

01:14 PM on 12/12/2011

OMG have you seen the latest out of OWS ,,they call it the 99% declaration..its a list of principals and goals,,, and a plan to form a competing political party if the 2 parties do not ac on "grievences" ,, They do have imagination ,,I give em that..here it is

https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/

[Kay Nicks]

01:29 PM on 12/10/2011

.•:*¨¨*:•.•:*¨¨* I ♥ Radiohead..•:*¨¨*:•.•:*¨¨*.•

[BigWillyG]

05:20 PM on 12/09/2011

I was expecting another story about how the occupy people got Punk'd by a rumor.

[Neither Side Wins]

12:41 AM on 12/09/2011

Can noneof these people afford shampoo, for the love of God???

[azinv]

09:53 AM on 12/09/2011

Funny, that's the first thing noticed.

[DJGryce]

11:49 PM on 12/08/2011

Again, why kids that still watch MTV too much. Keep this movement going.

[azinv]

09:54 AM on 12/09/2011

Is their a movement?

[iisdbomb]

10:40 AM on 12/12/2011

Can you speel?

[Payned]

05:17 PM on 12/08/2011

I won't hold it against them, because most people outside this occupation have no idea what it's really like on the inside. But I hope when they find out how the working poor in DC are suffering because of this occupation, they show some support for the victims of OWS.

[cct]

10:52 AM on 12/09/2011

Why people stopped getting nannies or hotels stopped employing maids because of people camping out?

Yours must be some media-created 21st century Republican logic but pretty please try to explain yourself.

[Payned]

11:01 AM on 12/09/2011

Wow, that's a lot of borrowed rhetoric.

No, in a lot of the occupied cities there are restaurant and small business owners under great hardship from people harassing their customers and destroying their bathrooms. In our city, several small businesses are pretty close to going under, they squeak by at the best times due to the real estate prices around here and the recession hit tip-based businesses extra hard. The IRS assumes tip-based businesses will not declare tips, so adds an extra 14 percent to declared income. It's not uncommon to see a $0 paycheck in a DC restaurant, so a lot of the people cleaning up those destroyed bathrooms are doing it for a $0/hr wage.

DC was already violent and suffering under inadequate police coverage, and now a lot of our cops are standing around in case of a riot instead of protecting us.

On top of that, when they shut down K street, tons of working-class people couldn't get to their homes, their daycare, or their families. They didn't just shut down K street, when you shut down K street you cripple a huge portion of the city. They shut down the evening commute for hours and it was a horrible experience for everyone.

[Dunkleberger Karl]

04:44 PM on 12/08/2011

Children that RADIOHEAD, radiohead, not Nickelback!

[karlhungus08]

03:50 PM on 12/08/2011

Awesome band, but I really don't care about Thom's opinions on OWS. Focus on making a better album than the last one.

[Van Hammersly]

11:18 PM on 12/08/2011

Spoken like a true Nihilist.

[karlhungus08]

11:05 AM on 12/09/2011

Not really. Nihilism is the philosophy of not believing in, or caring about, anything. I just don't care about the political opinions of rockstars, who are completely removed from the real world.

[Humanitari Leandro]

03:01 PM on 12/08/2011

The best band in the world! smart man! U2 will be next...

Brilliant!

[missjulz]

02:55 PM on 12/08/2011

Excellent.