Yorke asks Santa for ‘hope for the future’

By Scott Munro
( Prog )
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Radiohead mainman pens festive note to mark National Letter Writing Day

Radiohead mainman Thom Yorke has contributed to National Letter Writing Day by penning a note to Father Christmas.

He was asked to contribute by Letters Live, who’ll run a series of performance events at London’s Freemasons’ Hall between March 10-15, 2016.

And according to NME, Yorke asks Santa for several special requests.

Yorke says: “Now that I’m 47, if I have any last remaining credit with you, I have just these small requests: That my kids have a beautiful Christmas with love and understanding and peace. Perhaps some heavy snow.

“And can you just send the precious things that will really mean something to them? And can you send them some hope for the future. That is very important.”

He continues: “I won’t ask you to solve the problems of the human race. Those are our problems alone. But perhaps this year you would consider not giving any presents to oil company executives and the politicians whose influence they buy.”

Tickets for Letters Live in London are on sale now via the event’s official website.

Last week, Yorke compared YouTube to Nazis because they stole artists’ work.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.