Zack de la Rocha on stage with Tim Commerford of Rage Against the Machine at the Finsbury Park Christmas number one concert

Rage Against The Machine Finsbury Park Gig

Well you may have noticed that I, alongside my ex, instigated the whole Rage Christmas number one thing. When the protest song Killing in the Name was the UK’s number one on Christmas Day in 2009.

In the following summer RATM very kindly put on an entire gig as a thank you in Finsbury Park. For all of us who bought it and who also helped raise money for a worthy cause.

Possibly one of the most surreal moments of my life, having to walk out on stage in front of 70,000 people to be presented with the cheque for Shelter.
It represented how much money we had raised for Shelter with this endeavour.
And it is still sitting there on my mantelpiece!Some of the pictures from this gig can be seen on the Live At Finsbury Park DVD and the Tom Morello photo book called Whatever It Takes.

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