Thom Yorke has never been one to mince his words from the stage. The Radiohead frontman was captured last week performing with his new-ish project The Smile, playing one of their quieter numbers, when Yorke could hear audience members chatting and snapped. “It’s five minutes and then you can talk all you want,” he said, “so why don’t you just shut the fuck up?”. Yorke possesses one of rock’s most beautiful and yearning voices, a fragile vocal that is often the soulful and solemn centrepiece of his songs. But make no mistake, he gives a good “shut the fuck up”:
There is nothing like watching your heroes turn into the scariest teacher in school to give someone in the crowd an almighty dressing down, except this teacher is allowed to swear liberally and they have written some of your favourite songs. For the person on the end of the telling off, it must be a very confusing situation. Here’s ten times a star has interrupted their own show to chew out a punter in the audience.
