Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke walked off stage in Melbourne on Wednesday night after an audience member interrupted his solo show in protest against the war in the Middle East.

Yorke stopped playing during the encore of his second sold-out show at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl after a man in the stalls began shouting.

The audience member screamed, in part, “How many dead children will it take for you to condemn the genocide in Gaza?”

Yorke responded, “Hop up on the f---ing stage and say what you wanna say. Don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it. You want to piss on everybody’s night? OK, you do it, see you later then.”

Yorke, who’d already played for two hours, then took his guitar off and walked off the stage.

The crowd was booing loudly before chanting for Yorke, who returned a couple of minutes later and played Radiohead hit Karma Police. At his Tuesday night show, he ended the show with Lucky.

Radiohead faced criticism in 2017 for going ahead with a concert in Tel Aviv despite calls for them to boycott Israel as part of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement.

At the time, Yorke addressed the backlash on X (then Twitter), saying, “Playing in a country isn’t the same as endorsing its government. We’ve played in Israel for over 20 years through a succession of governments, some more liberal than others. As we have in America. We don’t endorse Netanyahu any more than Trump, but we still play in America.”