Tom Morello covered Måneskin and MC5 at his headline show in London last night (June 13). Watch video footage above.
The Rage Against The Machine guitarist played an intimate solo set at the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town ahead of his appearance at Download Festival 2024 tomorrow (Saturday June 15).
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When announcing the small gig in April, Morello promised that he’d be joined onstage by some “special guests”.
Four songs into the show, the musician teamed up with Måneskin guitarist Thomas Raggi on a joint rendition of the band’s 2023 single ‘Gossip’ – on which Morello features. The pair then performed a cover of MC5’s ‘Kick Out The Jams’ together.
Additionally, Morello treated the crowd to numerous Rage tracks, a solo version of his Bring Me The Horizon collaboration ‘Let’s Get The Party Started’, a cover of Bruce Springsteen‘s ‘The Ghost Of Tom Joad’ and more.
See more fan-shot footage from last night’s set below.
Tom Morello played:
‘Soldier In The Army Of Love’
‘Vigilante Nocturno’ (Atlas Underground)
‘Testify’ / ‘Take The Power Back’ / ‘Freedom’ (Rage Against the Machine song) (Medley of Rage Against The Machine songs)
‘Gossip’ (Måneskin cover) (with Thomas Raggi)
‘Kick Out The Jams’ (MC5 cover) (with Thomas Raggi)
‘Where It’s At Ain’t What It Is’ (Atlas Underground)
‘Hold The Line’ (Tom Morello feat. grandson cover)
‘Cochise’ / ‘Like A Stone’ (Audioslave song)
‘House Gone Up In Flames’ (Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman song)
‘Keep Goin”
‘Let’s Get The Party Started’ (Tom Morello feat. Bring Me The Horizon cover)
‘One Man Revolution’ (Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman song)
‘Bombtrack’ / ‘Know Your Enemy’ / ‘Bulls On Parade’ / ‘Guerilla Radio’ / ‘Sleep Now In The Fire’ / ‘Bullet In The Head’ (Rage Against The Machine song) (Medley of Rage Against The Machine songs)
‘The Ghost Of Tom Joad’ (Bruce Springsteen cover)
‘Killing In The Name’ (Rage Against The Machine song)
‘Power To The People’ (John Lennon cover)
(setlist incomplete, according to Setlist.FM).
Upon releasing ‘Gossip’ early last year, Raggi said: “Tom is one of the greatest musicians that I’ve always listened to and learned from. Playing with him is a dream come true. It’s an enormous gift and a personal highlight of this incredible year.”
Morello added: “When I heard that there was a rock and roll band from Italy that was blowing up around the world I was like ‘Really? Come on’. Then when I saw them play live I was blown away.
“They are unapologetically loud, unapologetically sexy, and unapologetically ROCKING and deserve to be one of the standard bearers for rock and roll for a younger generation.”
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He continued: “I got to jam with [Måneskin] at their studio in Hollywood, it’s a great band, they all play great, they write great songs, they connect with their audience in a deep and meaningful way, and if you’ve seen them play live the crowd goes OFF! It looks a lot like some of the big bands of the ‘90s.”
Shortly after ‘Gossip’ arrived, Måneskin and Morello played a raucous rendition of the track on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in the US.
Morello released his latest two studio albums, ‘The Atlas Underground Fire’ and ‘The Atlas Underground Flood’, in 2021. Måneskin’s third and most recent full-length effort, ‘Rush!’, came out in 2023.
Speaking to NME in May 2022, frontman Damiano David said the then-unheard project would be “critical [of society]” at times and “honest through and through”.
“This is the chance to make a real difference, not only for us, but for the whole Italian music business,” he added.
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