Thom Yorke dedicates a Dead Air Space playlist to Occupy

Thom Yorke has dedicated a playlist to the Occupy protesters. It went up on 21 October on Dead Air Space, Radiohead's blog, under the heading “Hello Fluffy”, with a dedication written partly in capitals.

Chosen for and WARMLY dedicated to the brave souls PEACEFULLY sleeping on concrete OCCUPYing Wall Street and the City and elsewhere in the world

Thom Yorke¹

The post began with climate. The Berkeley Earth Project, set up after the “climategate” campaign of 2009 against the science of global warming, had concluded that the Earth is warming, and Yorke hoped the finding would let everyone stop arguing and start changing how the world works. The institutions the camps were angry with, he wrote, had served only a small minority, and now wanted rescuing at the cost of ordinary people's and their children's futures. After the ten tracks he signed off with now i need to go and do something fluffy¹.

A second list, “dominoes”, followed on 3 November, again signed Thom.

“Hello Fluffy”, 21 October 2011 (as posted)

“dominoes”, 3 November 2011 (as posted)