Thom Yorke to perform Age of Stupid title track
The news on Thom Yorke’s activities is piling up. We’ve got Thom’s contribution to the Mark Mulcahy tribute album (‘All For The Best‘), a two track 12″ vinyl release (‘Apart By Horses’ b/w ‘The Hollow Earth’) and we can now add the title track for the movie ‘The Age Of Stupid’.
Thom Yorke will also do an acoustic performance of the title track of ‘The Age Of Stupid’, Paste reports. The film will premiere simultaneously in 450 theaters around the world on September 21. ‘The Age of Stupid’ is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Following the viewing, director Franny Armstrong and producer Lizzie Gillet will be joined by world-renowned scientists, celebrities and political figures including former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and Age Of Stupid actors Gillian Anderson and Pete Postlethwaite for a LIVE and inspiring panel discussion during The Age of Stupid LIVE from New York. Audiences will also hear from field scientists working in the Himalayas and Indonesian rain forest live via satellite. Thom Yorke will wrap up the event with an acoustic performance of the film’s title track.
Tickets for The Age of Stupid LIVE from New York on Sept. 21st at 7:30 p.m. Eastern / 6:30 p.m. Central / 5:30 p.m. Mountain and 8:00 p.m. Pacific (tape delayed) are available at participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, please visit the Web site (theaters and participants are subject to change). Information on the documentary and climate change can be found at www.ageofstupid.net.
Radiohead news on this day..
- Radiohead's live setup revealed - 2008
- Stipe on Yorke's cheerless reputation - 2006
- Hello? Is this thing on? - 2005
- Still no Radiohead on online music stores - 2004
- Radiohead's first day in the Studio - 2002
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12 Responses to “Thom Yorke to perform Age of Stupid title track”
h_e_n_r_y
September 1st, 2009
Was reading comments on you tube and want to know what the benefits of being anti global warming are?
. . Living in shitty polluted cities and burning off fossil fuels in our petrol cars?!?!
muzzy
September 2nd, 2009
if he is he will be robbed like Jonny was
supernigger75
September 2nd, 2009
Looks like a crap film
Tom
September 2nd, 2009
It’s a good film. An important one. One you should watch.
Jude Smith
September 2nd, 2009
So if Thom’s performing an ‘acoustic version’ of the title track, does that mean he’s also performing a studio version of said track?
Shane
September 2nd, 2009
(sorry, should’ve said- on the end credits/film soundtrack album)
Shane
September 2nd, 2009
Hope he plans to do this via satellite like the Conan appearance. Seems like a boner move to fly to NY (burn off generous amount of carbon) just for one song when promoting a film about Climate Change. Unless he’s got some other things to do in NY that require some face time of course.
Justin J.
September 2nd, 2009
When i saw the film back in . . . march sometime i think, “Reckoner” was the track at the end credits. It was the same setup too but no Thom at the webcast 
It was a little far-fetched film, kinda rubbish.
paranoid__android
September 3rd, 2009
Well, at least we’ll get Gillian Anderson and Thom Yorke on the same stage, for once. He should perform Subterranean Homesick Alien while she fucks with the projector so it plays Jose Chung’s From Outer Space, instead of this film which is probably as bad as it is well intentioned. Not that I wanna prejudge…
Nega
September 3rd, 2009
This film enraged me, nearly brought me to tears. And I understand the propagandistic moments of the film as what they are. That wasn’t what got me. It was the fact that it’s for real this time around. There is no turning back.
mr nice
September 4th, 2009
[...] Dead Air Space Thom talks about the movie and the event as well as the performance. In an earlier announcement it was stated that Thom would perform an acoustic version of the title track. In his message on the [...]
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September 14th, 2009
Awwww Yeeeaaaahhh!
Thommy’s gonna be nominated for an Oscar!
[foist!]