Radiohead and Bloc Party Contribute Songs To New War Child Album

Radiohead, Bloc Party and The Coral are amongst the artists contributing tracks to a new War Child CD.

The album titled ‘Help: A Day in the Life’ celebrates the tenth anniversary of the original War Child compilation, ‘Help’.

Other acts contributing to the new album, according to the nme, are: Manic Street Preachers, Razorlight, Gorillaz, Hard-Fi, Maximo Park, The Zutons and Elbow.

The War Child compilation will be available to download from www.warchild.com on September 9, with a physical release expected a few weeks later.

War Child was launched in 1993 to help children in the Balkans Conflict. 20 acts contributed to the first album in 1995 which was put together with a few days and became the fastest album ever.

This will be the second time Radiohead have supplied a track to the charity – their seminal track ‘Lucky’ featured on ‘Help’.