Rage Against The Machine have cancelled their European Tour this summer just after north-american gigs. So no cigar for this year.
BUT, we can comfort ourselves by watching the famous ‘Live at Finsbury Park‘ from RATM on The PIT. A live video album recorded on June 2010, released five years later on DVD/Blu-Ray through Eagle Vision Records and available right now on the platform.
“There’s a tradition in the UK since the 70s for an annual music event, the ‘Christmas No.1’ chart single. It’s the highest selling music single on Christmas Day each year where numerous artists and the music industry alike aim for this accolade. People take bets and artists record songs especially, and thousands tune in to the countdown on national radio to find out who has it.
Since 2005 it has been dominated by reality TV show ‘The X Factor’ and this tradition started to disappear. In November 2009, RATM fans Jon and Tracy Morter had decided that enough was enough. They started a social networking campaign to get an alternative No.1 instead. It attracted over a million followers Worldwide plus attention from the media.
The campaign was a success, with RATM selling over half a million downloads. It was the 2009 UK Christmas No.1… The band had pledged to play a free concert should they get to the top, and in June 2010 Rage Against The Machine travelled to London for this historical gig
