Radiohead fan from Harrogate becomes 'the talk of Copenhagen' after Instagram post
A Harrogate music fan has been name-checked by Rolling Stone and NME after his suggestion that a Copenhagen pub should host a Radiohead evening after the band postponed that night’s concert went viral.
Harrogate man Cory McLeod had flown 600 miles from Manchester to the Danish capital purely to see Radiohead play at the Royal Arena as part of their European tour.
But, on arrival, he was disappointed to discover that Radiohead's lead singer Thom Yorke had been hit by an extreme throat infection and that both that week’s band's scheduled concerts in Copenhagen at the 16,000 capacity venue had been rearranged for later in the month.
Instead of stewing on the news, and the waste of time and money involved for himself, Cory McLeod talked a small English karaoke pub in Copenhagen into hosting its own Radiohead event that evening.
The impact of his Instagram post was dramatic.
Before Cory knew it, 1,000 people had turned up at Sam's Bar and turned the whole place into one giant Radiohead singalong concert.
When Cory eventually left the heaving bar at one in the morning, Radiohead fans were still queuing to get in.
The story became the talk of Copenhagen and ended up online on Rolling Stone music magazine and the NME, before being picked up by The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X.
Radiohead did play the rescheduled gigs in Denmark two weeks later, playing Let Down during the encore.
But Cory could not afford to make the return trip.