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Radiohead's Thom Yorke has revealed that former Prime Minister Tony Blair's creep associates and advisers attempted to blackmail the frontman while he was attempting to have a conversation about climate change.
The band are currently at the height of recording new songs and penning lyrics while working on one of 2016's most exciting new albums before heading out on tour, but the Tomorrow Modern Boxes man has taken time away from the studio to speak out on climate change as part of his work with Freinds Of The Earth.
Yorke has some scathing words for Blair, whose net worth with wife has increased since his time in office by running a consultancy firm and acting as a Peace Envoy to the Middle East despite playing a key part in the Iraq War.
“It got into this big fight," says Yorke in a Q&A with environmental columnist George Monbiot. [They said,] ‘If you don’t agree to meet the Prime Minister, Friends of the Earth will be denied all access to him. Because of the Iraq war, I didn’t want to do it. I felt it was morally unacceptable for me to be photographed with Blair.”
Blair's office are yet to respond to the comments. Follow him on Twitter here.
Yorke also spoke out about keeping touring as environmentally friendly as possible.
“If you have a Radiohead show where 20,000 people turn up, happy to see you play, and it’s the only venue in the area and yet the promoter is saying, ‘The only way to get there is to drive,’ you’re faced with this decision and you’re going, ‘OK, do we blow out because there’s no support or public transport and we deprive the fans of a concert in order to reduce our carbon footprint?," says Yorke.
He adds. “Initially, it kept me awake at night – which sounds really stupid. I got unhealthily obsessed with it. But when I started to get involved in doing something about it., that helped me a lot. But I always have the impression that I am not doing enough at all.”
While Yorke has been touring with Tomorrow Modern Boxes, but Radiohead say they 'have lots recorded' for a new album' and are currently 'just going through it all.
