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Radiohead singer Thom Yorke briefly walked off stage during his Australian solo tour after an exchange with an audience member who heckled him with a protest about deaths in Gaza. <\/p>\n
Videos posted online by concert-goers at the Melbourne show on Wednesday show a man in the crowd shouting at Yorke. While not all of his words can be heard, he calls on the singer to “condemn the Israeli genocide of Gaza”. <\/p>\n
Yorke responds by telling the heckler to “hop up on stage” to make his remarks.<\/p>\n
“Don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it. You want to piss on everybody’s night? Ok you do it, see you later,” Yorke continues, before removing his guitar and halting his set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
His exit came as the heckler had repeated his call and added “how many dead children will it take”.<\/p>\n
Segments of the crowd could be heard booing the disturbance, and Yorke returned to cheers shortly after to play the Radiohead<\/a> song Karma Police. <\/p>\n Concert-goer Elly Brus said the protester “did not have support” from the Sidney Myer Music Bowl crowd.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was escorted away by security. He then continued to engage with people outside the venue as well,” she told the BBC.<\/p>\n Israel launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group’s unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and saw 251 others taken hostage.<\/p>\n More than 43,160 people have been killed in Gaza since then – including thousands of women and children – according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.<\/p>\n Both sides deny accusations they have broken the laws of war.<\/p>\n