 06/05/2008 Radiohead have allowed MTV to use the song and video to new single ‘All I Need’ as part of the MTV EXIT campaign against the exploitation of children for sweatshop labour.
“I think it’s really cool that it comes full circle”, Yorke told Reuters in reference to MTV's status as a ‘brand’ that promotes ideals of the West and its consumer culture.
“They wake up one morning and go ‘Well, hang on a minute, we want to do something about this,” Yorke continued.
And speaking of Radiohead’s strong views on the environment in regard to the bands extensive touring, Yorke commented: “We could have just… given it up or we could have brought it up as an issue and held up our hands and said we do not have the answers to all this shit, but we’re making it an issue”.
In other news Foals keyboard player Edwin Congreave has attacked London mayor Boris Johnson. Writing on Foals MySpace blog regarding the bands imminent return to London, Edwin stated his “fear that we’ll be flying into a city that isn’t so much a newly fascist city-state than one big gilded joke of a newspaper column made rotten flesh.
“At least when California elected a clown as governor they elected one who’d made his name as a muscle-man. Boris appears to have been elected simply because he has blond hair.”
Ah, Edwin, wise man once said: “Music and politics are two different things and never the twain shall meet”. |
