- by Scott Colothan
- Thursday, November 05, 2009
- Photo by: WENN.com
- filed in: Rock Indie
The Fiery Furnaces' publisher has issued a statement about the Radiohead 'Harry Patch' furore claiming it was all a case of mistaken identity.
As reported earlier today, Matthew Freidberger from the brother/sister outfit vehemently slammed Radiohead for recording the song 'Harry Patch (In Memory Of)'.
He ranted to Spinner.com: "Fuck you! You brand yourself by brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool. That is bogus. That's a put-on. That's a branding technique and Radiohead have their brand that they're popular and intelligent. So they have a song about Harry Patch.”
The comments, in the context of the song being about the last surviving British soldier of World War 1, immediately sparked outrage.
One Gigwise reader said: “What a moron... Since when is it 'cool' to talk about war veterans? What a lack of respect, the money from the music went to charity.”
In a statement to Pitchfork, The Fiery Furnaces spokesperson now claims that Friedberger mistakenly thought the Radiohead song was about American composer Harry Partch who died back in 1974.
The truth or a convenient excuse? We'll let you decide.
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