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Radiohead frontman is planning a unique solo concert, slated for July at the Latitude Festival.  Thom Yorke will play for the festival crowds without his fellow band members on Sunday at the main stage.

This is not the first time Thom Yorke has appeared solo; the singer released a solo effort in 2006, Eraser.  The album was critically lauded and awarded with the prestigious Mercury Prize. Though he did not tour in promotion of Eraser, Yorke has appeared at the occasional rally or charity lineup.  

Melvin Benn, the festival’s organizer, told the BBC that Yorke’s presence will speak for the uniqueness of the Latitude Festival: “That it is a special one off performance for Latitude only fills me with enormous pride at the statement it makes about the festival.”

Benn is also a force behind the August festivals at Reading and Leeds, where Radiohead will be performing as an entire band.
Yorke said in 2007 that he has not written any solo songs since his 2006 effort, and his spokesperson told the press that no new solo albums are planned.   Radiohead has just begun working on a follow-up to 2007’s In Rainbows.  

When the British band first began working on the new album, bassist Colin Greenwood said: “We’re at the stage where we’ve got the big Lego box out and we’ve tipped it out on the floor and we’re looking at all the bits and thinking, what next?”